Winter 2023 Archives

Dec 16, 2022
  • Jimmy Rostar

After the Fact

STORY BY JIMMY ROSTAR After the Fact Scott Avett ’99 ’00 explores mystery in the creative process On a morning in late summer, Scott Avett had hoped to spend a...

Dec 16, 2022
  • Crystal Baity

Student snapshot

Hometown: High Point, North Carolina  Class: First-year doctoral student  Major: Audiology  Career goals: Travel audiology, own my own private practice, work alongside Doctors Without Borders overseas  Grace Bellamy is turning...

Dec 16, 2022
  • Ken Buday

Engineering for success

STORY BY KEN BUDAY Engineering for success STUDENTS WITH ECU’S CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING HELP BUSINESSES BOOST EFFICIENCY AND CUT POLLUTION. As a child, Grace Jacobson could...

Dec 16, 2022
  • Rob Spahr

The Guy in the Room

The guy in the room ECU’S NEW NURSING DEAN BRINGS A FRESH PERSPECTIVE. STORY BY ROB SPAHR Dr. Bim Akintade stood quietly and alone in the front of an auditorium...

Flooded damage
Dec 16, 2022
  • Kim Tilghman

ECU part of $16 million grant to study resiliency of coastal communities

Economics professor Meghan Millea is part of a team that has received a National Science Foundation Coastlines and People grant totaling more than $16 million to study the increased intensity...

Alexander Murashov and Elena Pak study the effects of ancestral diet
Dec 16, 2022
  • Doug Boyd

Research shows you are what your ancestors ate

Parental diet and physical activity levels are critical factors in the prevalence of obesity and metabolic disorders such as diabetes not only among their offspring but also their children’s children...

Dec 16, 2022
  • East Magazine

Gold Standard

Hometown: Greenville, North Carolina Major: Biomedical engineering Career Goals: To use my knowledge of engineering to make a positive impact on people’s lives Scholarships: James and Connie Hackney Scholarship, Honors and...

Dec 16, 2022
  • Jules Norwood

Students recognized for lifesaving actions

When ECU students Krysta Byrd and Bradly Boaz found a fellow student slumped over in cardiac arrest, they leapt into action and helped save a life. It was Sept. 22,...

Dec 16, 2022
  • Jules Norwood

New provost sees people, teamwork as key

Robin Coger, ECU’s new provost who began in July, said she appreciates the enthusiasm and commitment she has seen from Pirate Nation. “I learned a long time ago that a...

Dec 16, 2022
  • Rich Klindworth

Training the next generation of leaders for eastern NC schools

ECU has a pipeline that produces a different kind of commodity — future principals. The PIRATE Leadership Academy at ECU prepares proven teacher leaders to become assistant principals and principals...