Jules Norwood Archives

Feb 07, 2022
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Wind In Their Sails

STORY BY JULES NORWOOD Wind in Their Sails A new partnership helps people with disabilities get on the water It’s a picture-perfect afternoon on the Pamlico River as Brent Carpenter...

Jun 16, 2021
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Tree Campus

Tree Campus STORY BY JULES NORWOOD Between the Wright and Graham buildings, protected by a ring of holly bushes, stands an overlooked landmark older than any building on East Carolina...

Nyah Gore
Jun 10, 2021
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Untapped potential

Nyah Gore Year: Freshman Major: Anthropology Hometown: Evans, Georgia When Nyah Gore was recruited by East Carolina University sprints coach Udon Cheek, he learned she had been involved in many...

Jun 01, 2021
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On the wing

Through a long-standing partnership between ECU and Sylvan Heights Bird Park in Scotland Neck, researchers have sequenced the genome of the white-winged wood duck, which could help in the conservation...

Jun 01, 2021
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Klein covers evolution of MTV in new book

When MTV launched in 1981 with “Video Killed the Radio Star” by the Buggles, it was billed as a 24-hour video jukebox, and the success of that format showed it...

Jan 06, 2021
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New normal, new future?

2020 has brought dramatic changes to daily life in the United States and around the globe as employees have adapted to teleworking, students and teachers have tackled virtual learning, large...

Jan 06, 2021
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Women in STEM thrive at ECU

ECU’s work to address gender inequality has received a major boost in the form of a three-year, $999,074 grant from the National Science Foundation. Interim Chancellor Ron Mitchelson is the...

May 27, 2020
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Coastal Coursework

As the water warms in the early spring, baitfish school by the thousands and even millions off the coast of North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Gannets and cormorants divebomb the schools...

Oct 01, 2019
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New hives, habitat become home for ECU bees

ECU’s Health Sciences Campus has about 20,000 new residents following the installation this spring of two hives of western honeybees near the lake. Chad Carwein, ECU sustainability manager, said the...

Ashley Yang checks the readout from a spectrometer.
Oct 01, 2019
  • Jules Norwood

X Marks The Lab

From the elevator, turn left down the hall and take 20 paces. Turn left again, and X marks the spot where Pirates are learning science in East Carolina University’s new,...