Women in STEM thrive at ECU
ECU’s work to address gender inequality has received a major boost in the form of a three-year, $999,074 grant from the National Science Foundation. Interim Chancellor Ron Mitchelson is the...
East Archives
Seeking Clean Water
Seeking Clean Water ECU’s Jamie DeWitt is a national leader in PFAS research Published May 21, 2020 by Rob Spahr Filed under: East Summer 2020 Jamie DeWitt sat confidently at...
Making Waves
Making Waves From creeks to oceans, water covers more than 70% of the Earth’s surface. For these East Carolina graduates, that’s plenty to create a career. Published May 14, 2020...
Telepsychiatry
Not long ago, ECU psychiatrist Dr. Sy Saeed received a handwritten note from a woman halfway across the country who had read an article about him in her local newspaper....
X Marks The Lab
From the elevator, turn left down the hall and take 20 paces. Turn left again, and X marks the spot where Pirates are learning science in East Carolina University’s new,...
Focusing the mind’s eye
How some of our most imaginative conjure their magic...
A creative solution to creating smiles
A narrow ribbon of road winds for 60 miles northeast of Greenville, threading through cotton fields and horse pastures. The road leads to quintessential small-town Ahoskie — where an East...
Opportunity knocks
For Taylor Hicks, what started as a hobby, a creative outlet to practice calligraphy, has now morphed into a business with more than $250,000 in sales in 2018. Hicks, a...
5 minutes with Jeff Mangum ’92
Position: Caricature artist Degree: Painting Hometown: Durham “People ask me all the time if drawing people at events and parties is my real job. And I say yes, it beats...
Strategy for success
People are used to Greenville growing. Why, Greenville Boulevard used to be a dirt road. But the primary places you see dirt now are at the dozens of construction sites...