Arts and Sciences Archives

Dec 19, 2022
  • Matt Smith

ECU 2022: YEAR IN REVIEW

If one word sums up Pirate Nation in 2022, it's "renewal." Pirates returned to campus with a rejuvenated sense of hope in response to COVID-19. Chancellor Philip Rogers was officially...

Almost 2,000 graduates were recognized at East Carolina University’s fall 2022 commencement ceremony in Minges Coliseum.
Dec 16, 2022
  • ECU News Services

AUDACITY TO ASPIRE

Nearly 2,000 East Carolina University graduates turned their tassels in Minges Coliseum on Friday, celebrating fall commencement 2022 along with their families, friends, and university faculty, staff and administrators. Chancellor...

ECU graduate with cap and gown standing in front of the cupola.
Dec 11, 2022
  • ECU News Services

GRAD PROFILES FALL 22: PIRATE RESILIENCY

Resiliency is a common theme for many students that make up Pirate Nation. Hard work and dedication are in their DNA and you’ll often find Pirates lending a helping hand...

Dec 11, 2022
  • Lacey L. Gray

PERSEVERANCE PAYS OFF

STATISTICS Name: John Chester Calhoun College: Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Major: Mathematics Age: 34 Classification/Year: Graduate student Hometown: Coral Springs, Florida Hobbies/interests: Reading, kettlebell and steel mace...

Dec 05, 2022
  • Kristen Martin

Honors students create class to increase civic engagement in STEM majors

An increasing amount of research shows that students in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) are less likely to vote than their non-STEM peers, according to data...

East Carolina University maritime studies graduate student Levi Holton, right, and Margaux Tronchet, a member of the University of the French West Indies and Association Archéologie Petites Antilles, record artifacts found on the Tank Bay shipwreck.
Dec 05, 2022
  • Lacey L. Gray

RESEARCHING HIDDEN SHIPWRECKS

For more than 200 years, sailboats and fishing boats have unknowingly passed over the site of a presumed historic shipwreck off the southern coast of the island of Antigua. Now,...

Nov 30, 2022
  • Spaine Stephens

ECU cardiac psychology program attracts students, national recognition

On the heels of marking its 15th year, East Carolina University’s nationally unique postgraduate program in clinical health psychology continues to gain momentum — and national recognition— through positive patient...

Nov 21, 2022
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU Voyages Series to feature discussion with advocate of women, minorities, juveniles

East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences continues the 16th season of its signature Voyages of Discovery Series at 7 p.m. on Dec. 8 in the Main...

Nov 17, 2022
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU professor emeritus receives North Carolina Award

Stanley R. Riggs, East Carolina University professor emeritus and distinguished professor of geological sciences, was one of six individuals presented with the state’s top civilian honor, the North Carolina Award,...

ECU Students awarded the Rivers Foreign Exchange Scholarship stand with Provost Robin Coger and Dr. Jon Rezek.
Nov 10, 2022
  • Jamie Smith

INTERNATIONAL GROWTH

To help kick off International Education Week, East Carolina University recognized faculty, staff and students for their outstanding work in pursuing international opportunities during its International Awards Ceremony. “As you...