I-Corps puts innovation in the crosshairs
More than two dozen ECU students, faculty and staff, as well as members of the Greenville community, have begun an entrepreneurship boot camp called I-Corps to help hone their business...
Jules Norwood Archives
McMahon ’69 speaks at spring commencement
Fireworks flew and tassels turned May 4 in Dowdy- Ficklen Stadium as 5,479 students graduated from East Carolina University. At ECU’s 109th spring commencement ceremony, fireworks capped off a new...
Pirates Abroad
You could call it a form of distance education when Ashlyn Biggers recently took a semester’s worth of classes in art, Italian, literature and art history—distance education in that she took...
Wieland recognized for fiction
English professor Liza Wieland had no idea when she opened her email earlier this year that she had been chosen for a major award. The Fellowship of Southern Writers, a...
Project models regional weather systems
Professors and students in the ECU Department of Geography, Planning and Environment are taking an in-depth look at weather patterns in the southeastern United States, thanks to a $450,000 grant...
Professor uses laser for record-breaking particle pull
ECU physics professor Yong-Qing Li and students in his lab have successfully pulled—not pushed—a particle for 10 meters, a distance 10 times greater than earlier experiments. “The normal way of...
Health care training hits the road
ECU’s Clinical Simulation Center took another step forward this spring when it unveiled its new mobile health care simulation unit, a vehicle designed to take training and continuing education opportunities...
Pirates Abroad
You could call it a form of distance education when Ashlyn Biggers recently took a semester’s worth of classes in art, Italian, literature and art history—distance education in that she took...