Alumni Archives

May 01, 2020
  • Kristen Martin

COMMUNITY ADVOCATE

Visit our YouTube channel for the closed-captioned version of this video. Serena Mooney leverages her passion for overlooked communities and advocacy as a future health care professional to shape her...

Apr 21, 2020
  • Erin Ward

‘WE ARE FIGHTING’

East Carolina University doctors, nurses and health care workers near and far are risking their lives to serve others during the coronavirus pandemic. From a nursing student working long shifts...

Apr 16, 2020
  • Robin Mayo

Women’s Roundtable creates new Access scholarship endowment

More scholarship offerings will be available to deserving ECU students thanks to a new endowment from the ECU Women’s Roundtable. The organization focuses on service, leadership and philanthropy at ECU,...

Apr 06, 2020
  • Erin Ward

STUDENT EMERGENCY FUNDS

In early April, East Carolina University Interim Chancellor Ron Mitchelson emailed a video to the university community about helping students who are facing displacement, unemployment and other challenges due to...

Apr 03, 2020
  • Kristen Martin

A FAMILIAR FACE

With schools closed across the state, children and parents are trying to navigate a new world of online learning amid the coronavirus pandemic. “Principals have had to rethink how they...

Apr 03, 2020
  • Michael Rudd

COMMITMENT TO COMMUNITY

A recent East Carolina University graduate and small business owner has started making face shields to help the local medical community during the COVID-19 crisis. Taylor Walden owns Simple and...

Mar 12, 2020
  • Erin Ward

LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON

When Ledyard E. Ross Hall, home of East Carolina University’s School of Dental Medicine, opened in 2012, the man behind it served as an inspiration to future dentists committed to...

Mar 11, 2020
  • Robin Mayo

ECU Alumni Association names 2020 Robert H. Wright Alumni Leadership Award recipients

The East Carolina University Alumni Association selected five student recipients of the 2020 Robert H. Wright Alumni Leadership Award. The award recognizes students’ academic achievement as well as commitment to...

Mar 10, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

SUPPORTING STUDENT VETERANS

COURAGE AND SACRIFICE Memorial Walk brick paver dedication ceremony remembers heroes who served Donald Ray Taylor joined the Navy in 1952, bound for basic training in San Diego before being...

Mar 10, 2020
  • Robin Mayo

Students seek to improve sustainability through composting

Improving Greenville’s environmental sustainability through compost is the goal for several East Carolina University students. Olivia Sessoms, Loring Penna-Welch, Jacob Marshall and Hayden Murphy are four Honors College students who...