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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...
Richard Butler Archives
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”...
Students build arctic snow sensor
Changes seen in the Arctic climate have an impact on the frequency and intensity of hurricanes experienced in eastern North Carolina. That is why Dan Dickerson, an ECU science education...
Wieland’s newest novel makes Oprah’s ‘Best of’ list
What happened to the 20th century poet Elizabeth Bishop during three life-changing weeks she spent in Paris amidst the imminent threat of World War II? The answer is what Liza...