Faculty Trio Awarded
ECU recognized three professors for their scholarly work March 2. English professor and author Liza Weiland received the Lifetime Research & Creative Activity Award. Her latest novel, “Paris 7 A.M.”...
Richard Butler Archives
ECU takes on COVID-19
March 20 was a sunny post-spring break day at ECU. The only difference was students were packing up to leave instead of getting back into their campus routines. “It’s kind...
Students developing app for better health literacy
Taking prescription medicine is not always easy. It can be especially troublesome for those who don’t speak English. Maria Alexandra Ortiz, a junior software engineering student at ECU, has seen...
ECU hosts first ‘HurriCon’
From sea level rise to shoreline impacts to community resilience and more, researchers and presenters from across the country – as well as Puerto Rico – descended on Greenville in...
‘Mini brains’ could help unravel autism spectrum disorders
When people ask Karen Litwa what she does for a living, her response is unique. “I say that I’m a brain builder,” she says with a smile. Litwa, an assistant...
Monti ’00 Schools Metro Atlanta on Beer
After nearly two decades teaching middle school science, Thomas Monti ’00 left the classroom to open Schoolhouse Brewing, one of the Atlanta area’s best new breweries. In just six months...
Go-to Teammate
Grega Popovic Year: Graduate Student Major: Chemistry Hometown: Maribor, Slovenia Grega Popovic has traded his swim goggles for safety glasses. Popovic, a four-year member of the Pirates swim team, saw...
Coronavirus affects spring sports, ticket renewals
Just as things were getting exciting, the coronavirus forced ECU to cancel the remainder of the season for baseball, softball, lacrosse, men’s and women’s golf, men’s and women’s tennis, and...
Coastal Coursework
As the water warms in the early spring, baitfish school by the thousands and even millions off the coast of North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Gannets and cormorants divebomb the schools...
Student Snapshot
East Carolina’s Bass Fishing Club competes in three national collegiate series. The club’s approximately 50 members travel the eastern half of the U.S. and even north to Canada to compete...