Arts and Sciences Archives

Woman posed in front of trees on campus.
Dec 16, 2024
  • Alondra Martinez

Student: Dayana Allison

Transitioning to college can be a whirlwind experience, but for East Carolina University freshman Dayana Allison, it has been a time filled with endless opportunities. Allison is an Honors College...

Dec 12, 2024
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Planned gifts expand university’s future success

Ripples of former Chancellor Leo Jenkins’s visionary leadership continue to create positive impact at East Carolina University. His influence expands into the future through the planned gifts of inductees to...

A series of two female and two male students dressed in graduation regalia pose for individual headshots.
Dec 05, 2024
  • ECU News Services

Grad Profiles: Fall 2024

A group of Pirates who began their journey at East Carolina University at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic will now part ways to pursue careers that fulfill ECU’s motto—Servire,...

Dec 05, 2024
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU faculty selected for prestigious recognition as women science leaders

East Carolina University faculty members in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences and Integrated Coastal Programs have been selected for a prestigious national recognition. Dr. Rebecca Asch, associate...

A tall man wearing a suit stands next to an older woman wearing a maroon sweater holding an award. An older man wearing a purple sweater holding an award stands to their right.
Nov 22, 2024
  • ECU News Services

Board of Trustees recognizes Pirate accomplishments

In its final meeting of 2024, the East Carolina University Board of Trustees honored alumni Bob Greczyn as well as Bill and Frances Cain with the Trustees Award for Distinction....

A nearly bald man with a white mustache and goatee, wearing a colorful scarf and black suit jacket, gestures with his hands while sitting to the left of a small table with a gold lamp. A woman with black, curly hair wearing a black dress with a colored streak pattern, sits to the right and holds a microphone with a folder in her lap.
Nov 18, 2024
  • Lacey L. Gray

Trailblazing tales: An evening with actor, director and literacy advocate LeVar Burton

The atmosphere was palpable as an audience of nearly 900 community members, students, faculty and staff enthusiastically welcomed — with a standing ovation — actor, director and literacy advocate LeVar...

Nov 18, 2024
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU receives Public Interest Technology University Network award

East Carolina University, in partnership with Missouri University of Science and Technology, is a 2024 Network Challenge Grantee awarded by the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN). PIT-UN projects advance...

Nov 13, 2024
  • Ken Buday

Faculty: Dr. Katie Ford

Sometimes, parents do know what’s best. “My dad told me to study Spanish because he said it would be more useful,” said Dr. Katie Ford, associate dean and director of...

Nov 06, 2024
  • Jules Norwood

Graduate students pitch research projects in Three-Minute Thesis competition

Sixteen East Carolina University graduate students took the stage Monday afternoon to pitch their research projects in the Three-Minute Thesis competition in the Main Campus Student Center ballrooms. Xanthia Saganis,...

A college age woman wearing a brown top smiles as she sits on East Carolina University’s campus.
Nov 06, 2024
  • Alondra Martinez

Student: Ilaria Noonan

When Ilaria Noonan began her college search four years ago, it was an unexpected invitation to join East Carolina University’s Honors College that changed her path. Now, the graduating senior...