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May 15, 2025
  • ECU News Services

ECU’s industrial technology transfer program receives national accolades

GREENVILLE, N.C. (5/15/2025) — The East Carolina University Bachelor of Science in Industrial Technology (BSIT) program has received accolades in a national report highlighting successes in community college transfer programs....

May 15, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Nurses take the lead in health care innovation with DNP-MBA

Earlier this year, Ashley Elks became the first person to embark on East Carolina University’s newest graduate program, a dual-track Doctor of Nursing Practice and Master of Business Administration that...

A man in a blue sport jacket and gray sweater stands in front of a wall with words that include value, think and lead.
Mar 11, 2025
  • Shelby Hudnall

Faculty: Dr. Erik Taylor

Professor Erik C. Taylor doesn’t just read the newspaper — he turns it into a dynamic teaching moment. “On a classroom day for me, the first thing I do to...

A woman with long dark hair wearing a white blouse under a dark gray tweed jacket stands with her hands on her hips and smiles in front of the Cupola at East Carolina University.
Mar 10, 2025
  • Alondra Martinez

Student: Sarah Maisto

From growing the Pirate Sales Club to shaping future leaders through the Toolbox Leadership Academy, Sarah Maisto has established herself as a standout student at East Carolina University. Throughout her...

Feb 13, 2025
  • ECU News Services

Chancellor Rogers’ Message, February 2025

Dear ECU Community, It is with great pride that I share a historic milestone for East Carolina University — earlier today, our institution earned the Research 1 (R1) university designation...

Jan 22, 2025
  • Ken Buday

ECU researcher explores sustainable concrete production

An East Carolina University construction management researcher has published work that describes a more sustainable process to produce concrete. Dr. Amin Akhnoukh worked with Natrx, a Raleigh sustainable technologies company,...

Dec 12, 2024
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Planned gifts expand university’s future success

Ripples of former Chancellor Leo Jenkins’s visionary leadership continue to create positive impact at East Carolina University. His influence expands into the future through the planned gifts of inductees to...

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Dec 04, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

Pirate nurse selected for prestigious White House Fellows program

Dr. Michael Kennedy, a Pirate acute care nurse practitioner from Morehead City, was announced Oct. 3 as a member of the 2024-25 class of White House Fellows, an incredibly rare...

Dec 04, 2024
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Donors, students celebrate scholarships that lighten the load of medical school debt

“It should not be the case that when you cross Interstate 95 you have a different life expectancy,” Dr. Michael Dale Warren told a crowd of donors and medical students...

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Dec 03, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

Physician assistant students learn how to incorporate culinary medicine into future practice

East Carolina University’s Department of Nutrition Science has piloted a program to teach future health care providers the ins and outs of food, and how to prepare nutritious meals, so...