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...
East Archives
5 minutes with Daphne Brewington '90 '98 '13
Position: Administrator for nursing professional practice and development and magnet program director at Vidant Medical Center Degree: Bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate in nursing Hometown: Belhaven “Over the past 32 years,...
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...
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...
You know an ECU doctor
Sara King ’79 recalls the time she called the office of her doctor, Mary Kirby, about a medical matter. She thought she needed to come in for an appointment. Kirby...
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...
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...
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....
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...