DIGGING DEEP
A film crew zoomed in as tiny shovels plunged into sand on a playground at East Carolina University. Dinosaurs were buried there – toy replicas carefully stashed by ECU professor...
ECU News Services Archives
BBC Travel lists ECU as one of five in world for sustainable tourism
A BBC Travel story listed East Carolina University as one of five schools in the world where one can earn a degree in sustainable tourism. In the Aug. 22 article,...
EXCELLENT ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
East Carolina University has been named one of the best colleges in the Southeast region based on its academic programs by The Princeton Review – an educational services company known...
ALL ABOARD
East Carolina University launched its 2012 fall semester Aug. 20 with traditional events welcoming both seasoned and fledgling Pirates. Students energized by convocation and a pep rally poured into Dowdy-Ficklen...
INVOLVED ALREADY
The freshman class of Honors College students – welcomed to East Carolina University on Aug. 16 – spent their first full day on campus giving back to the community....
‘A LIGHT CAME ON’
A book titled “Half the Sky” – which tells of oppression of women and girls in the developing world – led ECU graduate Megan Keels to a bold decision. In...
FAMILY TRADITION
Garrett Hall has changed in the 30 years since Carla Manning Lilley lived in the same room that her daughter, East Carolina University freshman Ashton Lilley, moved in Thursday. But...
FAMILIAR FACES
Freshman Honors College students can expect to see a lot of familiar faces when they move into Garrett Residence Hall on Aug. 16, thanks to a new summer series instituted...
PIRATES GALORE
Approximately 5,600 incoming Pirates converged on campus Aug. 16 when East Carolina University opened residence halls for move in. The welcome will extend to more than 27,000 students when fall...
ECU professor receives Fulbright award
East Carolina University professor Mulatu Wubneh in the Department of Geography will spend fall 2012 at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia through a 2012-13 Fulbright Scholar award for lecturing and...