ECU Contributor Archives

Aug 27, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU announces higher prize awards, kickoff date for third annual Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge

East Carolina University, the College of Business and the Miller School of Entrepreneurship have announced that the third annual Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge will award more than $100,000 in cash prizes...

Aug 23, 2019
  • Jules Norwood

REACHING PORT

As nearly 29,000 students started classes at East Carolina University this week either on campus or online, there were a handful who have returned to complete a journey they started...

Aug 23, 2019
  • Jules Norwood

A CHIP ON HIS SHOULDER

Craig Matta of New Bern, who enrolled at ECU in 1966 and left without a degree in 1970, said several factors, including grades and money, contributed to his decision. “I...

Aug 23, 2019
  • Jules Norwood

MOTHER AND SON

Caren Wharton left ECU to go to work. A special education major with a minor in psychology, she was offered a management position with a Fortune 500 company and took...

Aug 19, 2019
  • Jamie Smith

NEW CREW

As members of the class of 2023 walked into Minges Coliseum for convocation Sunday afternoon, they were handed small buttons with one very important word – connect. Connecting and making...

Aug 16, 2019
  • Jules Norwood

NEW SEASON

East Carolina University’s faculty marked the start of the 2019-20 academic year with a convocation ceremony in Wright Auditorium Friday morning. Dr. Jeff Popke, chair of the faculty senate and...

Aug 13, 2019
  • ECU Contributor

SWEDEN/DENMARK

Nine East Carolina University students explored how the lives of individuals, families and communities in Sweden and Denmark are similar and different when compared with those in the U.S.  These...

Aug 13, 2019
  • ECU Contributor

GUATEMALA

by Louisa Appiah, second-year medical student I grew up around poverty, corrupt governments and some civil unrest for the most formative years of my life. As a child, I watched...

Aug 13, 2019
  • ECU Contributor

GREECE

Dr. David Stewart, associate professor of maritime studies, led the Maritime Landscapes of Ancient Crete trip to Greece with five maritime studies undergraduate and graduate students. The group started its...

Aug 13, 2019
  • Kelly Rusk

AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND

Twenty-two East Carolina University students took part in the Sport for Social Change abroad trip to Sydney and the Gold Coast in Australia and Auckland, Queenstown, Christchurch, and Tekapo, New...