Lax to the max
MacKell Schultes Year: Sophomore Major: Business administration Hometown: Woodbury, N.J. Position: Midfield Feb. 18 was a historic day for ECU. The university’s new women’s lacrosse team scored its first victory...
Spring 2018 Archives
FROM THE MINOR LEAGUES TO THE LLWS
Last fall in his Winterville office at Albemarle Bank – a Little League World Series plaque on the table behind him – Brian Fields ’98 ’01 described the similarities between...
5 minutes with Melisa Ball ’08
Position: Manufacturing engineer, welding and fabrication, BSH Home Appliances Corp., New Bern Degree: Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering technology, mechanical design concentration and a minor in business Hometown: Clayton “We...
Student Snapshot
Hometown: Morganton Major: Public health studies, community health concentration Year: Senior Career goals: Become a physician assistant and operate a clinic Why did you choose ECU? The reason I came...
High-Class Bluegrass
If you’ve checked out the local bluegrass scene at all, chances are you’ve run across Hank Smith and Pattie Hopkins Kinlaw ’06. With their band, The Current, the banjo-fiddle duo...
New Foundations
The seventh floor of Greene Hall was home to eight students in the 1970s who have remained friends for more than 40 years. “We met in 1975, in a very...
You know an ECU doctor
Sara King ’79 recalls the time she called the office of her doctor, Mary Kirby, about a medical matter. She thought she needed to come in for an appointment. Kirby...
Ideate, Investigate, Innovate
East Carolina has been a place for new ideas for more than 100 years. And new ideas are what university leaders are hoping will help grow the university’s research enterprise...
Nursing professor serves on international AIDS board
Donna Roberson is helping shape the research and treatment of HIV and AIDS worldwide as a board member of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, a group with more...
Nematode valued for research
A tiny worm commonly found in compost has become a useful subject for research and forms the basis for several projects across ECU that have received federal funding. “Caenorhabditis elegans...