LEGACY OF SCHOLARS
If not for the Brody Scholars Program Brandon Garcia, Grant O’Brien and Kayla Mayes may have become a leading magician, math teacher and real estate developer. Instead, all three graduated...
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ECU’s Brody School of Medicine leads the state in several U.S. News rankings
In a new ranking, East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine leads the state in graduates practicing in federally designated health service shortage areas, and the percentage of graduates practicing...
NSF-funded projects aim to create economic shift
Two multi-institutional teams involving East Carolina University faculty members have been awarded $1 million each from the U.S. National Science Foundation's Regional Innovation Engines, or NSF Engines, program to create...
NSF ENGINES
Two multi-institutional teams involving East Carolina University faculty members have been awarded $1 million each from the U.S. National Science Foundation's Regional Innovation Engines, or NSF Engines, program to create...
NEVER QUIT
East Carolina University’s Tanisha Grimes keeps pushing every day, striving to be a role model for her six children. Her dedication to family, her job and taking college courses is...
Interdisciplinary research team tackles challenge of addiction recovery
An interdisciplinary team of health professionals from East Carolina University received a grant to study the impacts of the nationwide opioid epidemic — responsible for most of the state’s 11 daily...
Proud Pirate shares lessons with young students, new teachers
Excited voices and giggles rise around Crystal Hodges’ kindergarten classroom. Hodges ’03 ’05 stands and claps. Her class claps back in response and settles into quiet. Hodges choreographed the steps...
Princeville exhibit in library honors early educators
Coinciding with national Teacher Appreciation Week, celebrated May 8-12, the “Angels at the Blackboard” exhibition in the Janice Hardison Faulkner Gallery highlights many of the principals and teachers who served...
Pirate graduates honored for giving
Nearly 300 of East Carolina University’s 2023 graduates donned a new honor cord in recognition of their philanthropy. The graduates wearing these cords at commencement demonstrated their commitment to ECU...
ECU’s spring graduates turn their tassels
Friends and family gathered Friday in Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium to celebrate East Carolina University’s spring Class of 2023. The class had 4,946 graduates. Of those, 3,556 were undergraduates, 1,013 earned master’s...