Alumni Archives

Jul 14, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Chancellor’s Society event celebrates donors, campus wellness

Khloe Daniels saw the 27-foot climbing wall at the Eakin Student Recreation Center (ESRC) and lined up to take her turn. Just tall enough to pass the height restriction, the...

Jun 20, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

STUDENT LEADERS

Two Honors College students who have known each other since middle school will lead East Carolina University’s Student Government Association through this academic year. SGA President Javier Limon and Vice...

Esther Olajide graduated from East Carolina University's College of Nursing’s Bachelor of Nursing program after spending nearly a year deployed with the Navy.
Jun 15, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

RIGHT ON TIME

In May, Esther Olajide walked across the stage as Pirate nurse, having completed all the requirements of her bachelor’s in nursing science degree: research papers, end-of-semester exams and day after...

Guyla Evans prepares students to fill the growing need for professionals to conduct tests and run medical labs as interim director of ECU’s clinical laboratory science program.
Jun 12, 2023
  • Ken Buday

Faculty: Guyla Evans

As a high school student, Guyla Evans had to decide on a career path. “I always knew I wanted to do something in health care,” Evans said. “Like a lot...

Jun 06, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

Benefit raises funds for 2024 ECU summer theatre

East Carolina University faculty members with featured guest musical director Ana Flavia Zuim of New York University will present “A Musical Evening of Jaques Brel” on June 10-11. Three shows...

Wanda Lancaster, concentration director of East Carolina University's Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner program, lectures nursing students. The PMHNP program trains health care professionals to evaluate and treat mental health conditions.
May 30, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

PSYCHIATRIC CARE

Recent reports suggest that the nation’s mental health is suffering even greater post-pandemic, with adults reporting record rates of depression and anxiety, and young adults reporting significant behavioral health disorders....

May 22, 2023
  • Doug Boyd

Public urged to keep an eye out for spotted lanternflies as they eat their way south

Babak Bakhtiar had an emphatic response when asked if any spotted lanternflies had been found at his family’s Crosskeys Vineyards in Mt. Crawford, Virginia. “That’s like a curse word to...

A student on one of East Carolina University Assistant Professor Rebecca Asch’s field trips holds a menhaden, a small pelagic fish located along the North Carolina coast.
May 22, 2023
  • Lacey L. Gray

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES

East Carolina University faculty and students in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences are researching range-expanding marine species and changing fish populations, as well as the effects climate...

Robert and Amy Brinkley, left, and Pat and Lynn Lane, right, were honored by Chancellor Philip Rogers for their historic commitment to ECU.
May 17, 2023
  • Kristen Martin
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

HISTORIC COMMITMENT

In a milestone moment for East Carolina University, Chancellor Philip Rogers on Wednesday announced a combined $30 million commitment to the institution from Robert Gentry Brinkley ’78 and Amy Woods...

East Carolina University occupational therapy professor Anne Dickerson and film associate professor Erick Green partnered to create a film to educate emergency workers about elderly driver safety.
May 16, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

SERVICE FILM

What happens when a left-brained clinical researcher, a right-brained film production professor and a crew of East Carolina University students and alumni work together on the issue of older driver...