Strategy for success
People are used to Greenville growing. Why, Greenville Boulevard used to be a dirt road. But the primary places you see dirt now are at the dozens of construction sites...
Winter 2019 Archives
5 minutes with Daphne Brewington '90 '98 '13
Position: Administrator for nursing professional practice and development and magnet program director at Vidant Medical Center Degree: Bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate in nursing Hometown: Belhaven “Over the past 32 years,...
Student snapshot
Watching from his home in Wake Forest, ECU freshman Michael Hinson wasn’t satisfied with the Hurricane Florence relief efforts he saw online. So he and some friends decided to start...
A helping hand with health
Loraine Hall walks into the Farmville Senior Center, clearing a bucket of arts and crafts supplies from her usual table. The 60-year-old Farmville resident listens to a presentation on dementia...
A history of piracy
In June 1718, Blackbeard grounded his flagship, the Queen Anne’s Revenge — perhaps deliberately — near what is now Beaufort Inlet. Five months later, British Navy Lt. Robert Maynard tracked...
STREET OF DREAMS
Just a few years ago, a person could get lonely walking along Greenville’s Dickinson Avenue. Not anymore. The avenue and its 10 surrounding blocks have emerged as a dining scene...
Fairways and greens
Kathryn Carson Year: Sophomore Major: Exercise physiology Hometown: Mooresville Kathryn Carson spends a lot of time sending balls soaring through the air at ECU’s golf facility at Ironwood Country Club...
Game day is learning day for future guide dogs
East Carolina University football game days have served as a learning laboratory for future guide dogs being raised by Carlton ’97 and Meghan Blanton. The Blantons are volunteer puppy raisers...
Clements ’06 gives MLB experience to foster children
During a summer baseball game between the Colorado Rockies and the Arizona Diamondbacks, a foster child sat in the upper deck of Coors Field enjoying his first Major League Baseball...
ECU team searches for clues amid wrecks of Danish slave ships
The stories of African slaves who in 1710 escaped a pair of wrecked Danish ships off Costa Rica are being told thanks to underwater archeology work by ECU maritime studies...