- READDI – or not? – for the next pandemicCHAPEL HILL (September 28, 2023) – Many of us don’t worry much about Covid-19 these days, despite a recent uptick in infections. But researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill are already preparing ...Read more
- Florida-style bill would make colleges switch accreditorsRALEIGH (September 28, 2023) – Last Thursday morning, HB8 in the NC General Assembly was titled “Computer Sci. Grad. Requirement.” It required high-school students to complete a computer science course ...Read more
- 7% over two years? Simply not enough.RALEIGH (September 22, 2023) – It’s simply not enough. At a time when North Carolina children started school with 3,500 teaching positions vacant and with more than 20% of state jobs ...Read more
- Budget highlights – and lowlightsRALEIGH (September 22, 2023) – To win Medicaid expansion he has sought since he was elected, Gov. Roy Cooper agreed to make it contingent on passage of the state budget. So ...Read more
- UNC System to hold tuition flat for 8th yearRALEIGH (September 14, 2023) – The UNC System will hold in-state tuition constant at its 17 campuses in 2024-25 for the eighth straight year, President Peter Hans announced today. “Low tuition ...Read more
- “Eastern North Carolina needs us”: The economic impact of ECUBy Leslie Boney GREENVILLE (September 7, 2023) – When it first opened in 1909, the new, two-year East Carolina Teachers Training School had a critical, if modest, goal: Train teachers for ...Read more
- “Sticker girl”: The impact of ECU entrepreneursBy Leslie Boney AYDEN (September 7, 2023) – Taylor Walden didn’t come to East Carolina University expecting to become an entrepreneur. Her family wanted her to go into health care, maybe ...Read more
- “We need to find a solution”: The impact of ECU researchBy Leslie Boney GREENVILLE (September 7, 2023) – Dr. Rukiyah Van Dross-Anderson has made a discovery that could stop skin cancer in its tracks. The molecule she is developing in her lab ...Read more
- “Lot of purple and gold here”: The impact of ECU’s rural docsBy Leslie Boney KENANSVILLE (September 7, 2023) – You could say Jon Kornegay was born to be a rural doctor. His father was a physician in a small town in Duplin ...Read more
- Voter411 fills a void of info about Eastern NC candidatesBy Cindy Elmore, Ph.D. GREENVILLE (September 7, 2023) – Every fall semester, I put Election Day on my syllabus calendar. Students always eagerly hope this means class is cancelled that day. It ...Read more