Alumni Archives

Mar 11, 2020
  • ECU News Services

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
  • ECU News Services

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...

Rick Steves talks with students in the Bate Building. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Feb 21, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

TRANSFORMATIONAL TRAVEL

Hundreds of people braved snowy weather Thursday night to hear expert Rick Steves’ talk about a lifetime of travel — about 120 days every year — with a 9-by-22-by-14-inch carry-on...

Feb 20, 2020
  • Michael Rudd

DREAMS COME TRUE

The final round of the 2019-20 Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge concluded Wednesday night with FishingLicense.us taking first place and a cash prize of $15,000. FishingLicense.us is the team of ECU biology...

Feb 14, 2020
  • Lacey L. Gray

COMING FULL CIRCLE

Married East Carolina University professors never expected a rogue storm to shipwreck their boat along the coast of North Carolina 35 years ago, but that is exactly what happened and...

Feb 12, 2020
  • ECU News Services

LOVE IN PIRATE NATION

Some Pirates came to ECU for quality higher education and ended up with a two-for-one deal. Discover how they met their partner for life and read love stories in their...

Feb 10, 2020
  • Crystal Baity
  • Erin Ward
  • Kristen Martin
  • Rob Spahr
  • Spaine Stephens

MATTERS OF THE HEART

East Carolina University’s motto servire – to serve – is at the center of all we do each day. From doctors who literally fix hearts to educators who fill them...

Jan 31, 2020
  • ECU News Services

‘This program is such a blessing.’ Students express gratitude for Golden LEAF scholarships

Robynique Willis-Brown is determined not to be a statistic. Growing up in the foster system, Willis-Brown was surrounded by many uncertainties. Whether she could go to college was just one...

Jan 27, 2020
  • ECU News Services

Art gala, auction to support ECU School of Art and Design scholarships, programs

The East Carolina University Friends of the School of Art and Design will present the Keaton and Umberger Gala Art Auction and Sale of fine art, crafts and decorative pieces on Saturday,...