Brandon Webb Archives

Sep 27, 2017
  • Jules Norwood

Professor uses laser for record-breaking particle pull

ECU physics professor Yong-Qing Li and students in his lab have successfully pulled—not pushed—a particle for 10 meters, a distance 10 times greater than earlier experiments. “The normal way of...

Sep 27, 2017
  • Jules Norwood

Health care training hits the road

ECU’s Clinical Simulation Center took another step forward this spring when it unveiled its new mobile health care simulation unit, a vehicle designed to take training and continuing education opportunities...

Sep 27, 2017
  • Jamie Smith

Scholars from around the world meet at ECU

Higher education professionals from 20 institutions around the world met at ECU this spring for the 10th annual Global Partners in Education Conference. The conference brought together representatives from colleges...

Sep 27, 2017
  • Crystal Baity

Grant supports scholarships for math, science teachers

A five-year, $1.2 million grant will help the ECU College of Education provide scholarships for additional math and science teachers in eastern North Carolina as well as gain insight into...

Sep 27, 2017
  • Crystal Baity

Educator Ron Clark ’94 shares message of leadership, success

Acclaimed teacher and East Carolina University alumnus Ron Clark brought seven of his middle school students to Greenville in April to show them what success looks like. Clark was the...

Sep 27, 2017
  • Crystal Baity

Art in the East

Each June, a new group of artists-in-residence from across the United States moves to the eastern North Carolina town of Columbia, where they live and work for a year at...

Sep 27, 2017
  • Jamie Smith

Scientific women

In a lab nestled in the corner of the Brody Medical Sciences Building at East Carolina University, senior biology major Rishita Yeduri works on research related to the vaccinia virus....

Sep 27, 2017
  • Crystal Baity

ECU welcomes our newest EC Scholars

From aspiring engineers to entrepreneurs and music education majors, the newest class of EC Scholars is thinking big. The EC Scholars program is the most prestigious and competitive undergraduate merit...

Sep 27, 2017
  • Doug Boyd

Expecting excellence

When Chancellor Cecil Staton takes his daily walk across campus to the Starbucks truck, he sees a lot of reasons to make East Carolina “America’s next great national university,” as...

Sep 26, 2017
  • Jules Norwood

Pirates Abroad

You could call it a form of distance education when Ashlyn Biggers recently took a semester’s worth of classes in art, Italian, literature and art history—distance education in that she took...