Crystal Baity Archives

Jul 31, 2024
  • Crystal Baity

Online master’s programs in business, criminal justice, education and nursing nationally ranked

ECU’s online master’s degree programs in business, criminal justice, education and nursing are among the best in the nation in rankings by U.S. News & World Report in Feburary. Nursing...

Jul 31, 2024
  • Crystal Baity
  • Doug Boyd
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall
  • Steven Grandy

Wings of the Purple and Gold

East Carolina University has sent nearly 200,000 alumni out into the world – and more than a few into the skies above. Over the next few pages, they take you...

Jan 22, 2024
  • Crystal Baity

Navigating the Numbers

Campaign ads and stump speeches signal the start of another election cycle that will be watched closely in East Carolina University’s Center for Survey Research. Six years ago, with seed...

Jul 10, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

Glass Class is in Session

STORY BY CRYSTAL BAITY Glass Class is in Session IN AN OLD FARMVILLE GAS STATION, RAW MATERIALS PLUS FIRE EQUALS ART The golden hour arrives in Farmville, where the sun...

Jul 10, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

Book chronicles travels around country to watch Pirate football

Carl Davis’ seats in Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium inspired the title of his first book, but it was the trips to away games that provided many of his stories. Davis ’73 has...

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...

Jun 27, 2022
  • Crystal Baity

Student snapshot

Hometown: Raleigh, North Carolina Major: Public health with a community health concentration Career Goals: Public health Iyaira Williams sees her future self as a bridge builder between health care systems...

Feb 07, 2022
  • Crystal Baity

Study: Reduce ‘tobacco swamps’ to improve health

A new study co-written by an ECU researcher says public health could be improved by reducing “tobacco swamps” – densely located stores that sell tobacco products.  Similar to “food swamps,”...

Raven Johnson
Feb 07, 2022
  • Crystal Baity

Overcoming it all

Raven Johnson Year: Graduate student Major: Kinesiology Hometown: Lilburn, Georgia For a basketball guard who’s constantly busy, Raven Johnson’s injuries forced her to slow down. On Sept. 30, 2020, she...

Feb 07, 2022
  • Crystal Baity
  • Rich Klindworth

Looking back

STORY BY RICH KLINDWORTH AND CRYSTAL BAITY LOOKING BACK at 9/11 and two decades in Afghanistan 2021 brought two significant events in America’s long-standing war on terror: The 20th anniversary...