Pirates Abroad
You could call it a form of distance education when Ashlyn Biggers recently took a semester’s worth of classes in art, Italian, literature and art history—distance education in that she took...
Fall 2017 Archives
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...
Wieland recognized for fiction
English professor Liza Wieland had no idea when she opened her email earlier this year that she had been chosen for a major award. The Fellowship of Southern Writers, a...
Donors recognized with new award
To show his and East Carolina University’s appreciation for the generosity of significant donors, Chancellor Cecil Staton has created a special recognition he calls “the Chancellor’s Amethyst.” It is the...
Scottish Rite funds reading education
For children with speech-language and reading disorders, getting through grade school can be difficult, and there is the fear that they could be left behind. But thanks to a partnership...
Transplant bonds Pirate alumni
When Austen Butler ’14 and Tyler Dandrea ’13 met as 18-year-old freshmen at East Carolina University, they had few concerns other than preparations for a big midterm or whether there...
5 minutes with Tim Meigs ’89
Position: Assistant general counsel–intellectual property, Becton Dickinson & Co. Degree: Bachelor’s degree in biology with a minor in chemistry Hometown: Cullowhee Tim Meigs came to ECU wanting to become a...
Doctoral student’s research could lead to treatment of MS, other diseases
Like many great scientific discoveries, Daniel Wilkinson’s came almost by accident. As part of his doctoral research at ECU, Wilkinson was working on a way of creating regulatory T cells,...
Project models regional weather systems
Professors and students in the ECU Department of Geography, Planning and Environment are taking an in-depth look at weather patterns in the southeastern United States, thanks to a $450,000 grant...
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...