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....
East Archives
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...
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...