ECU Report Archives

Jul 10, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

United Health Foundation awards $3.2 million to improve youth mental health

The United Health Foundation, the philanthropic foundation of UnitedHealth Group, has announced a three year, $3.2 million grant partnership with ECU. The grant will expand the North Carolina Statewide Telepsychiatry...

Jul 10, 2023
  • Spaine Stephens

Dental school expands care in rural eastern NC

Residents of eastern North Carolina have better access to dental care thanks to the opening of a dental clinic in Hyde County and a program to provide oral health care...

Dec 16, 2022
  • Jules Norwood

Students recognized for lifesaving actions

When ECU students Krysta Byrd and Bradly Boaz found a fellow student slumped over in cardiac arrest, they leapt into action and helped save a life. It was Sept. 22,...

Dec 16, 2022
  • Jules Norwood

New provost sees people, teamwork as key

Robin Coger, ECU’s new provost who began in July, said she appreciates the enthusiasm and commitment she has seen from Pirate Nation. “I learned a long time ago that a...

Dec 16, 2022
  • Rich Klindworth

Training the next generation of leaders for eastern NC schools

ECU has a pipeline that produces a different kind of commodity — future principals. The PIRATE Leadership Academy at ECU prepares proven teacher leaders to become assistant principals and principals...

Dec 16, 2022
  • Lacey Gray

ECU to explore WWII battle site in Alaska

Coastal resources management doctoral student Dominic Bush is part Native Aleut, so when he learned of a World War II battle between Japanese and American forces on the Alaskan island...

Dec 16, 2022
  • Spaine Stephens

ECU to offer only OT doctorate in UNC System

The College of Allied Health Sciences is set to offer a doctoral degree program in occupational therapy — the first at any public university in the state. “Occupational therapy is...

Dec 16, 2022
  • ECU News Services

ECU recognizes alumni

The ECU Women’s Roundtable honored 10 award recipients at its Incredible Women Luncheon on Sept. 23. Mary Sue Cummings Deaton ’81 ’91 of Greenville has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in...

Dec 16, 2022
  • East Magazine

REDE for the future

Innovations emerging from East Carolina University drive approaches to health care, provide access to educational opportunities and evidence the technical expertise and creativity of a major research-driven university. By leveraging...

Dec 01, 2022
  • Michael Rudd

Isley Innovation Hub opens to spawn ideas

The new Isley Innovation Hub has transformed the former university bookstore in the Wright Building into a multiuse, 15,000-square-foot area for entrepreneurial-minded students, faculty and staff to collaborate and create...