Alumni Archives

Oct 02, 2024
  • Lacey L. Gray

Marshall Island serves as resting place for WWII battle vehicles

The island of Roi-Namur is located in the northern part of Kwajalein Atoll, one of the many volcanic islands and coral atolls comprising the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Situated...

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Sep 27, 2024
  • ECU News Services

Board of Trustees approves Isley Indoor Performance Center

A long-awaited project is one step closer to becoming a reality as the East Carolina University Board of Trustees approved the construction of the Isley Indoor Performance Center as part...

Sep 26, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

Pirate nurse alumna leads health care change in Moldova

Alumna Hilary Mendel had a plan to change the world when she arrived at East Carolina University in 2006. The Pirate nurse has seen that vision through, using her nursing...

Sep 20, 2024
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Access Scholarship program yields transformative student success

Anyone seeking to understand East Carolina University’s strategic focus on student success and its intersection with philanthropy need only visit a scholarship event like the Access Scholarship luncheon held Sept....

Sep 19, 2024
  • University Advancement

New board members announced for ECU Alumni Association

The East Carolina University Alumni Association (ECUAA) welcomed three new members to its board of directors. The newly elected members, Dr. Akeen Hamilton, Jacob Quinn and Morgan Squatriglia, joined the...

Sep 16, 2024
  • Michael Rudd

Blacksail Fund attracts industry pro for guidance

As the faculty advisor for the newly announced Blacksail Fund, Matt Slate ’96 will bring to ECU almost 28 years of real-world experience to benefit the students in his classroom...

Sep 11, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

Pirate Nurse takes flight over eastern NC to save lives

As a boy, Hunter Venters walked the fields of his family’s farms near Chicod in southern Pitt County. From time-to-time small planes would fly overhead. Venters doesn’t remember wanting to...

Sep 10, 2024
  • Doug Boyd
  • Ken Buday

Eyes on the Skies

At age 4, Austin Mansfield ’17 watched from his Farmville home as Hurricane Floyd knocked down trees and flooded eastern North Carolina in 1999. “I was just so curious of...

Sep 05, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

ECU’s Nursing Education program trains faculty for community college programs

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention make no bones about the schism in health care outcomes between urban and rural parts of the nation: “rural Americans are more likely...

Aug 30, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

Soccer success translates to nursing promise

When she joins the team at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center in Baltimore, East Carolina University graduate and nurse Rachael Wilsynski will have a lifetime of high-level experience with teamwork...