East Archives

Feb 07, 2022
  • ECU News Services

ECU announces $500 million campaign, Vidant to rebrand as ECU Health

East Carolina University formally kicked off an historic fundraising campaign at the Nov. 12 board of trustees meeting.  Chancellor Philip Rogers publicly announced the $500 million comprehensive campaign – the...

Feb 07, 2022
  • Lacey Gray

ECU psychologists receive $3.8 million to research, improve student mental health

ECU researchers are working to prevent and address emotional and behavioral problems in elementary schoolchildren with the help of a $3.8 million federal grant.  ECU associate professors of psychology Brandon...

Raven Johnson
Feb 07, 2022
  • Crystal Baity

Overcoming it all

Raven Johnson Year: Graduate student Major: Kinesiology Hometown: Lilburn, Georgia For a basketball guard who’s constantly busy, Raven Johnson’s injuries forced her to slow down. On Sept. 30, 2020, she...

Feb 07, 2022
  • Jules Norwood

Wind In Their Sails

STORY BY JULES NORWOOD Wind in Their Sails A new partnership helps people with disabilities get on the water It’s a picture-perfect afternoon on the Pamlico River as Brent Carpenter...

Feb 07, 2022
  • Spaine Stephens

A dynamic decade

STORY BY SPAIN STEPHENS A dynamic decade In just 10 years, the School of Dental Medicine has established itself as a leader in care and education The ECU School of...

Feb 07, 2022
  • Natalie Sayewich

ECU, Dartmouth studying chronic COVID

It’s known as “post-acute COVID-19 syndrome,” “long COVID,” “chronic COVID” and sometimes “long-haul COVID.” And a team from ECU’s Brody School of Medicine and the Geisel School of Medicine at...

Feb 07, 2022
  • Crystal Baity
  • Rich Klindworth

Looking back

STORY BY RICH KLINDWORTH AND CRYSTAL BAITY LOOKING BACK at 9/11 and two decades in Afghanistan 2021 brought two significant events in America’s long-standing war on terror: The 20th anniversary...

Dec 23, 2021
  • Gail Benge Kent

Germany 1971

“It changed my DNA,” said Pamela Murphy, describing the life changing experience of living and studying in 1971-72 at East Carolina’s European Study Center in Bonn. The experimental program, operating...

Douglas Scott Thomas posing on campus with martial arts.
Dec 23, 2021
  • Michael Rudd

Student snapshot-winter 2022

Hometown: Goldsboro Major: Entrepreneurship and sports studies Career goals: Launch his compact martial arts kit and run a martial arts studio One could say the entrepreneurial itch for Doug Thomas...

Matt Harrup
Jun 16, 2021
  • ECU News Services
  • Ken Buday

Student snapshot

Hometown: Brussels, Belgium Major: Coastal resources management doctoral student Career Goals: To become an archaeologist East Carolina University student Matt Harrup wasn’t looking for a tavern. However, when he found one,...