Alumni Archives

Nov 30, 2023
  • Steven Grandy

Staff: Lisa Hagans

While every East Carolina University graduate student may work with different faculty members in their course of study, chances are that each of them has worked with Lisa Hagans. Hagans,...

Nov 28, 2023
  • Michael Rudd

Business Pirates hit NYC

A Google search on Pirates and New York City yields numerous results, including a Seattle Times article stating that in New York in 1692, “piracy was a leading economic-development tool...

Nov 28, 2023
  • Kristen Martin

ECU alumna receives national award recognizing her excellence in teaching

East Carolina University alumna Ainsley VanBuskirk thought she was attending a typical school assembly at Greenville’s Pactolus Global School, where she teaches first grade. However, the assembly was called to...

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Nov 27, 2023
  • ECU News Services

ECU alum Kelly King to deliver Fall 2023 commencement address

East Carolina University’s commencement ceremony will take place Friday, Dec. 15, at 10 a.m. in Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum to celebrate approximately 1,925 members of the fall Class of...

Members of the Chi Omega Sorority celebrated homecoming festivities at their Fifth Street sorority house. A current sorority member could be the first recipient of the ECU Rho Zeta Chi Omega Scholarship, which will be awarded in 2024. (Photos by Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall)
Nov 27, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

UNBREAKABLE BONDS

ECU a launch pad for Bond’s career Stephanie Bond considered only two schools when she was looking for a college. She decided on ECU during her campus tour. “My campus...

Nov 17, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Ward family holds ECU close at heart

When it comes to East Carolina University, Jim ’74 and Katie Ward have always followed their hearts, and that includes the gifts the Ward family members have made during the Pursue Gold...

Nov 16, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

SPEECH PARTNERSHIP

Erin Baginski lives about as far from eastern North Carolina as a person could drive to, but she’s every bit a Pirate and represents a pair of very successful partnerships...

Nov 14, 2023
  • Ken Buday

BRIDGE TO SUCCESS

Will Janning watches as a seagull flies across a clear sky. The nearby water greets the sand he stands on, allowing him a dry spot from where he can see...

Nov 08, 2023
  • Michael Rudd

Miller School continues its climb in national entrepreneurship rankings

The Miller School of Entrepreneurship in East Carolina University’s College of Business is firmly entrenched in Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine’s Top 50 Undergraduate Schools for Entrepreneurship list. For five...

ECU faculty, staff and alumni cut the ribbon to celebrate the new office of ECU’s Military & Veterans Resource Center in the Main Campus Student Center. (Photos by Rhett Butler)
Nov 07, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

BEST FOR VETS

East Carolina University has been ranked among the nation’s best again this year in the Military Times’ 2023 Best for Vets Colleges. ECU was No. 24 in the Southeast and...