Alumni Archives

Oct 14, 2022
  • Crystal Baity

Alumni awards recognize outstanding service to ECU

Six outstanding East Carolina University alumni and friends will be recognized by the ECU Alumni Association over homecoming weekend. The ECU alumni awards celebrate individuals who demonstrate outstanding service to...

Oct 13, 2022
  • Crystal Baity

Gifts fund research, student scholarship at ECU

Shirley and Marvin Slaughter’s legacy of supporting East Carolina University students is continuing. Planned gifts by Shirley Slaughter, who died April 16, will provide $25,000 for the creation of the...

Dr. Suzanne Lazorick, left, professor of pediatrics and chair of the Department of Public Health at the Brody School of Medicine, discusses rural adolescent activity research with Brody student Sina Kazemzadeh, center, and Brody alumna and ECU Health resident Dr. Chloe Opper.
Oct 13, 2022
  • Spaine Stephens

LET’S GET PHYSICAL

A student in the Brody School of Medicine and a pediatric resident at ECU Health have published their research on physical activity in adolescents attending rural schools. Their findings suggest...

Oct 02, 2022
  • Ken Buday

Faculty: Tommi Galaska

The sound of music echoes from a nearby studio where Tommi Galaska sits cross-legged on a chair in a cramped office. “It used to be a closet,” she said. A...

Sep 30, 2022
  • Hannah Eccleston

ECU Women’s Roundtable honors 2022 Incredible Women Award recipients

The East Carolina University Women’s Roundtable honored 10 award recipients at a luncheon on Sept. 23. Established in 2003, the Women’s Roundtable acknowledges the contributions of women to ECU’s legacy and...

Sep 26, 2022
  • Caroline Barnhill

Underdog mentality drives ECU alum, former football walk-on

From his humble beginnings as a child in Chihuahua, Mexico to being recognized as one of the top sales representatives for the cardiac rhythm management division of Boston Scientific in...

Sep 19, 2022
  • Ronnie Woodward

Full-circle moment for Laliotes in reading room

Among Ann Laliotes’ many character traits — like her humor, passion for East Carolina University success and a philanthropic mindset — is something else ECU library director Jan Lewis likes...

Sep 16, 2022
  • Doug Boyd

ECU graduate wants to solve the mysteries of migraine headaches

It might start with an aura — a scintillating scotoma of zigzag lines, opaque circles, rings of colors. You might turn or blink, but it just gets worse. Then the...

Sep 15, 2022
  • Kim Tilghman

Continuing students find education, fellowship with ECU’s Lifelong Learning Program

A new semester on campus sees bustling streets and sidewalks filled with Pirates hustling to keep intense schedules of classes, extracurricular activities, social gatherings, sporting events, part-time jobs, and other...

Joshua Pitzer of the College of Engineering and Technology gives a tour of the Isley Innovation Hub to CET students. CET helps manage and maintain the equipment found in the Isley Hub’s Wornom Makerspace.
Sep 12, 2022
  • Michael Rudd

ENCOURAGING ENTREPRENEURSHIP

In 2017, Van and Jennifer Isley gave a $2 million gift  to establish a place where East Carolina University students can have “creative collisions,” which produce innovation and entrepreneurship. YOU...