Richard Butler Archives

Nov 20, 2024
  • Ken Buday

ECU finishes second in national robotics competition

A team of East Carolina University students placed second in the Association of Technology, Management and Applied Engineering (ATMAE) national robotics competition Oct. 28-31 in Las Vegas. The finish continued...

Nov 19, 2024
  • Crystal Baity

ECU First Day prepares for spring after successful rollout

ECU First Day, a textbook and course material program that debuted this fall, has saved East Carolina University undergraduate students who participated more than $2.7 million on the cost of...

Nov 18, 2024
  • Crystal Baity

Students experiment with clean graffiti project

East Carolina University students merged artistic expression and environmental responsibility in a clean graffiti project at Jenkins Fine Arts Center. Instead of painting on the sidewalk, Dan Elliott’s students laid...

Nov 15, 2024
  • Alondra Martinez

ECU celebrates the season with holiday art and music events

The School of Art and Design Holiday Exhibition and Sale is an East Carolina University holiday tradition returning Nov. 21-23. Exceptional art made by undergraduate and graduate students will be...

Nov 14, 2024
  • ECU News Services

APLU recognizes ECU’s commitment to community engagement

GREENVILLE, N.C. (11/14/2024) — In recognition of extraordinary commitment to community engagement, innovation and economic prosperity, East Carolina University received two national awards from the Association of Public and Land-grant...

Nov 13, 2024
  • ECU News Services

Cello professor releases recording of Brahms sonatas

GREENVILLE, N.C. (11/14/2024) — Emanuel Gruber, a cello and chamber music professor in East Carolina University’s School of Music, has released a new recording of Johannes Brahms’ cello sonatas with...

Nov 13, 2024
  • ECU News Services

ECU Voyages Series features an evening with LeVar Burton

GREENVILLE, N.C. (11/04/2024) — East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences will welcome actor, director and literacy advocate LeVar Burton to campus on Nov. 14 for the...

Nov 12, 2024
  • Michael Rudd

Miller School’s climb in national rankings continue

Six years ago, the Miller School of Entrepreneurship at East Carolina University cracked the Princeton Review® and Entrepreneur® magazine’s Top 50 undergraduate entrepreneurship programs for the first time at 47....

Nov 12, 2024
  • Steven Grandy

Open House offers prospective Pirates a glimpse at ECU experience

On a normal fall Saturday morning, the ECU Mall would largely be quiet except for the sound of rustling leaves. However, this past Saturday, the Mall was alive with the...

Nov 08, 2024
  • Crystal Baity

ECU named Best for Vets

East Carolina University is in the top 25% of universities and colleges recognized as Best for Vets by the Military Times. ECU is ranked fifth in North Carolina, 19th in...