Fulfilling the mission
Fittingly on National Rural Health Day, Nov. 21, a crowd gathered on the East Carolina University Health Sciences Campus to ceremonially break ground on the new Center for Medical Education...
Doug Boyd Archives
The championship ECU built
Teammate Candace Lynn came to the plate. As their assistant coach Brandon Peebles ’00 would say later, the left-hander had been struggling at the plate. “Coach Percy (Edwards ’87) told...
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...
5 minutes with PHILLIP LEWIS ’88
Position: Director, ECU Office of Environmental Health and Safety Degree: B.S., environmental health Resides: Greenville, North Carolina What are your job responsibilities? I provide leadership and management oversight for the comprehensive environmental...
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...
Proactive Performer
Greenville native Kristin Wetherington ’05 was in town earlier this year singing Broadway showstoppers with the Greenville Choral Society. And she’ll be back in December for her annual holiday show....
Tame the Flame
Tame the Flame STORY BY DOUG BOYD AND PATRICIA EARNHARDT TYNDALL Charles Darwin considered fire and language the two most important discoveries of humankind. Of those, fire has been a...
Remembering ECU Sports Icons
Remembering ECU sports icons Jeff CHarles, Tery Holland STORY BY DOUG BOYD Brian Bailey remembers the first time he heard of Jeff Charles. It was 1988. Bailey, sports director at WNCT...
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...
Headache Hunter
It might start with an aura — a scintillating scotoma of zigzag lines, opaque circles, rings of colors. You might turn or blink, but it just gets worse. Then the...