East Archives

Jan 18, 2019
  • Doug Boyd

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,...

Health caree on wheels truck.
Jan 17, 2019
  • Matt Smith

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...

Etching of Black Beard the pirate
Jan 16, 2019
  • Jules Norwood

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...

aerial view of Dickenson Avenue
Jan 11, 2019
  • Erin Shaw

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...

May 16, 2018
  • Doug Boyd

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...

Oct 19, 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 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...