Summer 2025 Archives

Jun 27, 2025
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Student snapshot

Mohsen Zakaib Hometown: Winston-Salem, North Carolina Class: Third-year medical student Major: Engineering, concentration in electrical engineering Career goals: Emergency medicine, internal medicine, critical care, trauma surgery Mohsen Zakaib was an...

A couple in white stand in front of purple light show on stage.
Jun 27, 2025
  • Alondra Martinez

ECU premieres ‘Wild Heart’, a modern take on Joan of Arc’s story

When people hear the name Joan of Arc, they often think of her tragic end. But Chelsea Marcantel’s new musical, Wild Heart, brought Joan’s often overlooked story to life in...

Jun 27, 2025
  • Crystal Baity

Graduate programs ranked

ECU’s master’s and doctoral programs in allied health sciences, medicine and nursing earned high national rankings in U.S. News & World Report’s 2025 Best Graduate Schools, released April 8. U.S....

Two men stand around a woman presenting an award.
Jun 27, 2025
  • Kim Tilghman

ECU recognizes research, creative success

Science and art and the people who pursue it were the focus March 4 during the university’s annual Research and Creative Activity Week. Joseph Houmard, professor of kinesiology, received the...

Four guys posing together.
Jun 27, 2025
  • Steven Grandy

Campus Cribs brings it home at Aman Pirate Challenge

A startup that partners with local rental homes and apartments to market their properties directly to college students has won this year’s Aman Pirate Challenge and the $20,000 prize that...

A diver investigating a plaque
Jun 27, 2025
  • Alondra Martinez

A Marine’s new mission

Geoff Anthony ’25, a retired Marine Corps colonel, received his master’s in maritime studies in May. Now he’s applying the Marine motto, Semper Fidelis, or “Always Faithful,” to his new...

Dump truck drives down a dusty road.
Jun 27, 2025
  • Ken Buday
  • Lacey Gray

Pirate Nation rolls to rebuild WNC

Pirate Nation pulled together in the fall to help western North Carolina following Hurricane Helene’s devastation. This spring, they continued to the next steps: rebuilding what’s gone and preserving what’s...

A bald man in a white coat
Jun 27, 2025
  • Lacey Gray

Professor studies genetic markers associated with sudden infant death syndrome

Keith Keene, Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences associate dean for research and professor in the Department of Biology, has been looking for answers about sudden infant death syndrome...

A researcher sits in front of a sign for McMurdo Station in Anatarctica
Jun 27, 2025
  • Lacey Gray

Researchers record glacial melt in Antarctica

ECU researchers are studying glacial melt in Antarctica to better understand the effects of climate change in the polar region. Tristan Bench, an ECU postdoctoral researcher, spent 40 days at...

Jun 27, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Feather in her cap

Briley King ’14 did not wait years for the crowning achievement of her fledgling business — she started with one: a handmade trucker hat that can take you from a...