A helping hand with health
Loraine Hall walks into the Farmville Senior Center, clearing a bucket of arts and crafts supplies from her usual table. The 60-year-old Farmville resident listens to a presentation on dementia...
Glen Webster Archives
A history of piracy
In June 1718, Blackbeard grounded his flagship, the Queen Anne’s Revenge — perhaps deliberately — near what is now Beaufort Inlet. Five months later, British Navy Lt. Robert Maynard tracked...
STREET OF DREAMS
Just a few years ago, a person could get lonely walking along Greenville’s Dickinson Avenue. Not anymore. The avenue and its 10 surrounding blocks have emerged as a dining scene...
Fairways and greens
Kathryn Carson Year: Sophomore Major: Exercise physiology Hometown: Mooresville Kathryn Carson spends a lot of time sending balls soaring through the air at ECU’s golf facility at Ironwood Country Club...
Game day is learning day for future guide dogs
East Carolina University football game days have served as a learning laboratory for future guide dogs being raised by Carlton ’97 and Meghan Blanton. The Blantons are volunteer puppy raisers...
Clements ’06 gives MLB experience to foster children
During a summer baseball game between the Colorado Rockies and the Arizona Diamondbacks, a foster child sat in the upper deck of Coors Field enjoying his first Major League Baseball...
ECU team searches for clues amid wrecks of Danish slave ships
The stories of African slaves who in 1710 escaped a pair of wrecked Danish ships off Costa Rica are being told thanks to underwater archeology work by ECU maritime studies...
School leadership study receives $9.7 million grant
A group of ECU researchers studying the effects of school leadership has secured a five-year, $9.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The study is led by primary...
Pirates pitch in following Florence
Days before Hurricane Florence touched land, East Carolina University leaders knew they needed to act. Instead of waiting for skies to clear, multiple ECU divisions mobilized quickly to direct resources...
Gilbert takes athletics helm, Houston to lead football
New ECU football coach Mike Houston put his own affirmation on the Pirate gridiron mantra at his introductory news conference Dec. 4. “I promise you, there will be no quarter,...