Alumni Archives

Aug 12, 2021
  • Erin Ward

ECU Alumni Association welcomes new board members

The East Carolina University Alumni Association approved six new members to join its board of directors. The board operates to provide strategic direction, resources and professional expertise to carry out...

Aug 09, 2021
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda

Brody faculty member receives award from state society

Dr. James deVente, associate professor in the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, has received the Harold Pollard III Award from the North...

Aug 04, 2021
  • Erin Ward

ALUMNA MAKES HISTORY

When Pirate alumna Brenda McCarthy graduated from aviation school at Naval Air Station Pensacola in May, she received her wings and also made history. McCarthy, who graduated from East Carolina...

Aug 03, 2021
  • Erin Ward

Portland’s new poet laureate is an ECU alum

ECU graduate Maya Williams ’17 is the newest poet laureate for Portland, Maine. The honorary position is awarded to a Portland resident who “is both an accomplished poet and an...

Jun 30, 2021
  • Erin Ward

Queen of beach reads: Alumna Kristy Woodson Harvey talks latest novel

East Carolina University alumna Kristy Woodson Harvey ’10 regularly finds herself on lists like Southern Living’s Most Anticipated Beach Reads, Huffington Post’s Summer Reading and the News & Observer‘s Best...

Jun 22, 2021
  • Erin Ward

LEGACY OF LIGHT

East Carolina University alumnus Howell Binkley earned a reputation on Broadway as the lighting master behind shows including “Jersey Boys,” “In the Heights” and the blockbuster “Hamilton.” But he was...

Jun 16, 2021
  • Erin Ward

Alumna’s business closed during COVID. She donated money to student scholarships anyway.

Painting and pottery are hands-on, in-person activities. When a Greenville paint-your-own pottery studio couldn’t allow people inside because of pandemic restrictions, its owner had to get creative quickly. In October...

Jun 15, 2021
  • Doug Boyd

STICKER SHOCK

Have you seen the internet meme of a dressed-to-the-nines couple having dinner in a lumber yard? It reads, “Take me somewhere expensive!” Expensive is the word that best describes lumber...

Jun 14, 2021
  • Crystal Baity

Student: Kateryna Kosolapova

Creating the “People of Greenville” podcast helped fulfill Kateryna “Kate” Kosolapova’s dream of telling other people’s stories. She grew up watching TV hosts and news anchors and pored through magazines...

Jun 08, 2021
  • Erin Ward

YouTube star MrBeast donates tech to ECU students

One of the most-subscribed YouTube creators in the country stopped by East Carolina University to donate more than $27,000 in laptops, iPads and headsets. MrBeast, the famously generous YouTuber whose...