SCHOLARSHIP SUPPORT
With a family history attached to East Carolina University, Ben Hawkins knows he’s in the right place. A general engineering scholarship is helping him continue his family’s tradition. “It’s important...
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PREVENTING POLLUTION
At a large manufacturing plant outside the small town of Tarboro, East Carolina University student Behzad Zeinolabedini looks toward the ceiling. Amid the spooling strands of copper wire that will...
ON THE JOB
Before students even started classes this fall, Lauren LaMantia talked to them about what happens after they graduate. LaMantia is the assistant director and counselor at the Career Development and...
LITTLE STEPS, BIG THINGS
Pablo Hernández didn’t know English. He learned it. His parents didn’t go to college. He did. Growing up in Venezuela, he came to America, accepting an unpaid internship, knowing it...
HELPING PEOPLE, SAVING LIVES
Rolando Rosado returned to East Carolina University this fall with perspective from a summer spent helping people and saving lives. The junior engineering student participated in the Engineering World Health...
HAPPY CAMPERS
Middle and high school students from five economically distressed tier 1 North Carolina counties made up the STEMx training and hackathon youth camp in the Department of Technology Systems. The...
GREEN ROOM
Amid all the wires, panels and connectors, Liliana Sherman had the best piece of equipment possible as she worked on a solar energy experiment inside a lab at East Carolina...
HOT TOPIC
It seems entirely appropriate that engineering graduate student Kenneth Weddle will soon be leaving East Carolina University for a job in Arizona. You see, he’s been dealing with heat for...
CYBER SURGE
The Information and Computer Technology program at East Carolina University is getting a new name that more accurately reflects the importance and relevance of cybersecurity in its concentrations. The new...
BUILDING INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
The opportunity to visit the Netherlands and learn about how other nations are building with sustainability drew three East Carolina University construction management students to HAN University’s International Week. Stavros...