Alumni Archives

Aug 31, 2022
  • Ken Buday

Staff: Ashley Harzog

For Ashley Harzog, it all started with Big Mama. East Carolina University’s new director of alumni relations and outreach for the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences (THCAS) has...

The PIRATE Leadership Academy Class of 2022 includes, from left, Patrice Watford, Lynetti Warden, Holly Winslow, Darrick Wood, Sharita Wade, Jessica Prayer, Kristal Brooks and Mara Swindell.
Aug 29, 2022
  • Rich Klindworth

PRINCIPAL PIPELINE

East Carolina University has a pipeline that produces a different kind of commodity — future principals. The PIRATE Leadership Academy at ECU prepares proven teacher leaders to become assistant principals...

Mason Muskett, an ECU 2022 graduate, sorts through clothes at My Sister’s Closet. The boutique uses its proceeds to support Greenville's Center for Family Violence Prevention.
Aug 24, 2022
  • Ronnie Woodward

SISTERS OF SUPPORT

Dr. Runying Chen hasn’t bought brand-new clothing in a couple of years. She does love to shop, however, but prefers to do it at the upscale resale boutique My Sister’s...

Red, white and blue smoke billow on the ECU football field over the Pirate decal. Supporters of East Carolina University raised a record $69.8 million during the 2021-22 fiscal year.
Aug 03, 2022
  • Jules Norwood

FUNDING THE FUTURE

As East Carolina University works to prepare today’s students for tomorrow’s careers, Pirate Nation has gotten on board with the mission, providing the university with a record $69.8 million in...

She’s been skydiving and was in a movie, but LuAnn Sullivan is proud of her nearly 34 years working at East Carolina University.
Aug 01, 2022
  • Ken Buday

Staff: LuAnn Sullivan

LuAnn Sullivan was hired at East Carolina University after an interview and one phone call immediately afterward. “You don’t get a job like that anymore,” she said. Now, nearly 34...

Jul 18, 2022
  • Ken Buday

TAKING FLIGHT

If East Carolina University engineering students in a new program need a reminder of the importance of their work, they simply need to look up and listen. The roar of...

Guest instructor John Porter conducts the ensemble at ECU’s Summer Guitar Festival.
Jul 12, 2022
  • Crystal Baity

SUMMER GUITAR FESTIVAL

Music filled A.J. Fletcher Recital Hall last week as the East Carolina University Summer Guitar Festival returned after a two-year pandemic hiatus. More than 30 students of all ages who...

Jul 11, 2022
  • Benjamin Abel
  • Erin Ward

Black nursing alumnae make scholarships, history with donations

Four distinguished Pirate nurses have reaffirmed their commitment, through generous scholarship endowments, to ensure that underrepresented nursing candidates from across eastern North Carolina get the education and training they need...

Austin Vick, left, and Emily Wiggins were two of 17 ECU alumni who returned to campus on June 13 to help lead new student orientation sessions.
Jul 01, 2022
  • Crystal Baity

WELCOME HOME

With in-person new student orientation back in full force at East Carolina University, chants of “purple and gold” and “no quarter” have been roaring through the Main Campus Student Center....

Ross Hall
Jun 30, 2022
  • Spaine Stephens

ROSS LEAVES LEGACY

Dr. Ledyard E. Ross Jr., community orthodontist and benefactor of East Carolina University and the ECU School of Dental Medicine, died on the evening of June 28. He was 96....