David Irwin Archives

Nov 21, 2017
  • Bre Lewis

Student: Chris Short

Chris Short is a junior from Apex and is double majoring in vocal performance and music theory/composition at East Carolina University. He is involved in the ECU Opera Theater, ECU...

The inaugural International Awards Ceremony at ECU.
Nov 17, 2017
  • Jamie Smith

RECOGNIZING EXCELLENCE

As part of International Education Week, East Carolina University celebrated its commitment to growing the international footprint on campus at the inaugural International Awards Ceremony Thursday, Nov. 16. ECU’s Office...

ECU students rehearse for the first performance of “Young Frankenstein.”
Nov 16, 2017
  • Bre Lewis

MAD SCIENCE

Laughs are in store when “Young Frankenstein” opens Nov. 16 in East Carolina University’s McGinnis Theatre. This musical comedy adaptation of Mel Brooks’ film is sure to bring in a...

The College of Business and the university will benefit from a commitment from an alumnus.
Nov 15, 2017
  • Michael Rudd

ECU alumnus commits $2 million to College of Business

East Carolina University’s College of Business has received a $2 million commitment from Van and Jennifer Isley of Raleigh that will provide opportunity for business, engineering, technology and arts students...

Alicia Kwon (far right), a learning assistant in Steven Wolf’s physics class, helps students with the concepts of torque and rotation.
Nov 07, 2017
  • Lacey L. Gray

STUDENTS HELPING STUDENTS

Twenty-eight ECU students in the Learning Assistant Program are helping their fellow students better understand course material in biology, chemistry and physics by engaging classes in interactive-learning practices and inquiry-based...

ECU students completed a service-learning project involving a mystery shipwreck on the Outer Banks.
Oct 19, 2017
  • Crystal Baity

OUTER BANKS MYSTERY

A mystery shipwreck exhibited outside Nags Head Town Hall has a new sign thanks to East Carolina University art students. The students, now alumni, worked on the project in fall...

A student sits in the ECU Air Force ROTC flight simulator in Wright Annex.
Oct 11, 2017
  • Crystal Baity

RIGHT OF LINE

East Carolina University’s Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Detachment 600 has been honored as one of the best in the nation. The group has received the Right of...

Mathin Ange
Oct 09, 2017
  • Bre Lewis

Student: Mathin Ange

Mathin Ange is a senior studying elementary education at East Carolina University. “I applied for a scholarship here and completely fell in love with everyone in the College of Education,”...

Author Colson Whitehead reads from and fields questions about his novel “The Underground Railroad”.
Oct 05, 2017
  • Spaine Stephens

UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Colson Whitehead read from his acclaimed novel “The Underground Railroad” to a packed Wright Auditorium Wednesday evening, Oct. 4, the second guest in the Thomas Harriot College...

At left, Dr. Cecil Staton, chancellor of ECU, watches as workers from T.A. Loving/Barnhill prepare the construction beam that was signed by students, staff, faculty and administrators for installation.
Oct 04, 2017
  • Crystal Baity

TOPPING OFF

A tower crane carried the final beam of the new East Carolina University student center to its destination under a beautiful blue, fall sky on Oct. 4. Ten years in...