A year like no other
Interim Chancellor Ron Mitchelson talks about his time at the helm and what the future holds for ECU – and himself. How would you sum up your year-plus as interim...
Doug Boyd Archives
ECU takes on COVID-19
March 20 was a sunny post-spring break day at ECU. The only difference was students were packing up to leave instead of getting back into their campus routines. “It’s kind...
ECU hosts first ‘HurriCon’
From sea level rise to shoreline impacts to community resilience and more, researchers and presenters from across the country – as well as Puerto Rico – descended on Greenville in...
Coronavirus affects spring sports, ticket renewals
Just as things were getting exciting, the coronavirus forced ECU to cancel the remainder of the season for baseball, softball, lacrosse, men’s and women’s golf, men’s and women’s tennis, and...
Making Waves
Making Waves From creeks to oceans, water covers more than 70% of the Earth’s surface. For these East Carolina graduates, that’s plenty to create a career. Published May 14, 2020...
Artist, teacher, philanthropist, Pirate
Years ago, Sneads Ferry artist Sherry Thurston ’70 drew a pair of white rubber boots – the kind local shrimpers and anglers wear – called the drawing “Sneads Ferry Sneakers”...
Sedition and whiskey
Decades before Americans fought taxes in the Whiskey Rebellion, colonists apparently drank whiskey and talked rebellion in a southeastern N.C. tavern ECU students uncovered this summer. Last year at the...
Pirates Ascending
Published Oct 01, 2019 by Doug Boyd Filed under: East, Fall 2019 Most every year in recent memory, Pirate sports teams have been nationally ranked. Most every year, ECU teams...
Batter up!
Bryant Packard Year: Junior Major: Communication Hometown: Greenville Pirates baseball coach Cliff Godwin calls him “one of the best left-handed hitters in the country.” And junior Bryant Packard is living...
Baseball study aims for better hitting
Eastern North Carolina has a rich baseball tradition, with a pair of Hall of Famers among its native sons. That tradition could take a step forward through work ECU researchers...