Buying officially licensed ECU products supports the Pirates
One of the strongest traditions at ECU is showing your pride by wearing and displaying your favorite purple and gold products. From apparel, tailgate tents and flags, to blankets, bags,...
Richard Butler Archives
Student Snapshot
Hometown: Mobile, Alabama Major: Fourth-year medical student at the Brody School of Medicine Career goals: Become an emergency medicine physician with a fellowship in sports medicine After a standout career as...
Marnie Oursler’s BUILDING BIG
When Marnie Oursler was at East Carolina University, she packed her days with softball practices, sorority activities and a job at a real estate office, where she’d run around Greenville...
Living, Learning in Tuscany
On a 500-year-old brick courtyard, 22 East Carolina University students are practicing their poses in yoga class while the hilltop village of Certaldo Alto wakes up. Birds are chirping in...
Dooley brings a new day for men’s basketball
In April, ECU’s new head men’s basketball coach Joe Dooley met with his players and asked them a question: Did they know their ring sizes? He was referring, of course,...
Project examines link between pollution, respiratory problems
Ground-level air pollution can cause a variety of health problems, and Kym Gowdy is taking a closer look at how and why. Her work, funded by a five-year, $2.5 million...
Study shows climate change may hinder fish conservation efforts
For more than 20 years, conservationists in the Caribbean have been working to protect the endangered Nassau grouper. Thanks to those efforts, populations of this critical reef fish have stabilized...
Fall enrollment nears 29,000
Jaalen Best moved into College Hill Suites on Aug. 14, hoping to avoid the rush of ECU move-in traffic before starting a new job at the campus recreation center. “I’m...
Corbett named Coastal Studies Institute director
Reide Corbett is the new dean of integrated coastal programs and director of the Coastal Studies Institute. Corbett, a professor in the geology department and a faculty member since 2000,...
Students design, build custom boards
Camille Young’s four cousins will receive skateboards as Christmas presents – all made by her in a summer session class in the School of Art and Design. Young also made...