Boating safety focus of ECU-designed app
A new smartphone app called SOBOS — Self reported On-water Boat Operator Survey — is aimed at changing the face of boating safety by putting data collection in the hands...
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ECU to establish School of Rural Public Health
ECU’s public health department will grow into a new School of Rural Public Health in August 2020, after plans were approved by the University of North Carolina System in May....
Cross-campus team awarded $1.25 million for special education study
Breaking down the silos of public and higher education for the benefit of learners with disabilities and high intensity needs is the mission behind a new East Carolina University graduate...
ECU loses longtime supporter Walter Williams
Walter Williams ’51 ’55, one of ECU’s most loyal advocates and benefactors, died March 5. He was 88. Williams and his wife, Marie, have been champions of ECU programs across...
I-Corps puts innovation in the crosshairs
More than two dozen ECU students, faculty and staff, as well as members of the Greenville community, have begun an entrepreneurship boot camp called I-Corps to help hone their business...
ECU’s youngest students learning at Lab School
This academic year was the inaugural one for ECU’s Lab School, which will complete its school year in June. Housed in a renovated wing of South Greenville Elementary School, the...
Economic Development Academy aimed at officials, business leaders
In April, ECU officials unveiled plans to create an academy that will offer economic development training and certifications to elected officials, business leaders and economic development staffers. The program, which...
ECU surgeons treating rare disorder with novel surgery
Sandra Callis is one of approximately 200,000 U.S. residents living with achalasia, a rare disorder that makes it almost impossible to eat. The grandmother from Colerain remembers doctors first told...
McMahon ’69 speaks at spring commencement
Fireworks flew and tassels turned May 4 in Dowdy- Ficklen Stadium as 5,479 students graduated from East Carolina University. At ECU’s 109th spring commencement ceremony, fireworks capped off a new...
3-D printing leads to surgical breakthrough for patient
Pictured above are Arnold with his family and Dr. Preston Sparks, an ECU cardiothoracic surgery fellow. Bottom, graduate student Joshua Stevens is shown with Arnold and Anciano. Franklin Arnold was...