‘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...
Richard Butler Archives
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...
Labor to Love
Two ECU nursing graduates are giving soon-to-be moms a natural alternative to a hospital delivery room. Marcia Ensminger ’05 and Nicole Winecoff ’11 opened Natural Beginnings Birth & Wellness Center...
ECU research could help save lives of military personnel
Teresa Ryan, an assistant professor in the East Carolina University Department of Engineering, has received a $370,000 grant to continue her efforts to help protect military personnel. Ryan has been...
He started ‘Bo Time.’ Now it’s ‘go time’
When Erik Jones won the Bojangles’ Southern 500 at Darlington on Labor Day weekend, the high point for Randy Poindexter ’78 probably wasn’t on the track. More likely, it was...
Artist, teacher, philanthropist, Pirate
Years ago, Sneads Ferry artist Sherry Thurston ’70 drew a pair of white rubber boots – the kind local shrimpers and anglers wear – called the drawing “Sneads Ferry Sneakers”...