Summer 24 Archives

Jul 31, 2024
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Twilley invests in ECU to educate sales leaders

Richard Twilley ’89 is leading the way to establish ECU as a leader in sales education with a $4.5 million commitment to the College of Business. His investment has established...

Jul 31, 2024
  • Kristen Martin

ECU students spend spring break studying whales in Mexico

When people hear spring break in Mexico, they may think all-inclusive resorts and hours on a beach. For eight ECU students, spring break in Mexico meant watching whales and immersing...

Jul 31, 2024
  • Ken Buday

ECU supports Army airborne through database development

Students and faculty in the College of Engineering and Technology are working on a $1.2 million research and development project to support the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division. “The objective is...

Jul 31, 2024
  • Michael Rudd

Pirate entrepreneurs find a winning idea in the ocean

According to a National Library of Medicine article, limulus amebocyte lysate is an extract found in the blood of the Atlantic horseshoe crab that helps keep injectable medications and vaccines...

Jul 31, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

Air Care

Growing up, Hunter Venters ’07 walked the fields of his family’s farms near Chicod in southern Pitt County, often seeing aircraft fly overhead. Today, he can hardly remember a time...

Jul 31, 2024
  • Doug Boyd
  • Ken Buday

Eyes on the Skies

At age 4, Austin Mansfield ’17 watched from his Farmville home as Hurricane Floyd knocked down trees and flooded eastern North Carolina in 1999. “I was just so curious of...

Jul 31, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

Nursing research uses video dramas to prevent HIV spread

Madeline Fernandez, during her nursing doctorate at the University of Miami, contributed to a groundbreaking project: a Spanish-language telenovela aimed at educating Hispanic women about HIV prevention. Titled Infeccion de...

Jul 31, 2024
  • Kristen Martin

ECU again a Teaching Fellows institution

ECU has been selected as a partner institution by the N.C. Teaching Fellows Commission beginning in the 2024-25 academic year. The Teaching Fellows program is a competitive, merit-based program offering...

Jul 31, 2024
  • ECU News Services

ECU joins professional development program for rural leaders

ECU is now part of North Carolina Commerce’s Rural Community Capacity program, which provides professional development training for leaders of local governments in some of the state’s economically distressed areas....

Jul 31, 2024
  • ECU News Services

Hyster-Yale Group leases tech and testing space at Intersect East

Hyster-Yale Group, a global manufacturer of lift trucks and technology solutions marketed under the Hyster and Yale brands, is the first tenant of Intersect East, the 19-acre innovation hub along...