Academics and Altitude
Starrett Vesper Year: Senior Major: Exercise physiology Hometown: North Wales, Pennsylvania When Starrett Vesper hits the track, everything else melts away. The pole vaulter said track and field allows him...
Jules Norwood Archives
ECU joins partnership to boost innovation in NC
Thanks in part to university research, North Carolina has great potential for research and development but trails other states in commercializing that research, according to NCInnovation, a nonprofit formed to...
QAR lab partners with Waccamaw Siouan Tribe to conserve 930-year-old canoe
Watch a video on the Lake Waccamaw canoe It’s not uncommon for children to step on a submerged log or stump while playing in a North Carolina lake or river....
The Stories in Soot
In Siddhartha Mitra’s lab, soot and other byproducts of combustion have their own stories to tell. STORY BY JULES NORWOOD The Stories in Soot ECU lab traces fire’s fingerprints through...
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,...
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...
Threads of Connection
STORY BY JULES NORWOOD Threads of Connection Virtual exchange program reaches across the globe Each year almost 500 students at East Carolina University connect, engage and collaborate with students at...
Decadelong project documents WWII wrecks off N.C. coast
A project involving the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has identified, surveyed and documented the location and condition of more than 50 wrecks...
Pirate Nation Gives
East Carolina University alumni and friends pledged more than $8.4 million during the sixth annual Pirate Nation Gives on March 23. That surpassed last year’s record total of $6.5 million,...
Changing the Future
STORY BY JULES NORWOOD Changing the Future Impact of giving felt across university, region From the Pirate statue standing guard at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium to the words of the fight song...