Arts and Sciences Archives

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 17, 2020
  • ECU News Services

ECU Excels receptions honor high-achieving students

East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences recognized its high-achieving freshmen and first-year transfer students at the college’s annual ECU Excels reception Feb. 10 in the Main...

Feb 17, 2020
  • Grady Dillon

Student: Nakaya Melvin

East Carolina University student Nakaya Melvin is always up for a challenge. Melvin, a senior from Fayetteville, is an Honors College student double majoring in public health studies and chemistry....

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 06, 2020
  • Jules Norwood

A WAY FORWARD

Interim Chancellor Ron Mitchelson presented his first State of the University address to the East Carolina University community Wednesday in Wright Auditorium, highlighting successes and challenges, and thanking faculty and...

Feb 05, 2020
  • ECU News Services

Travel writer, TV personality, activist to visit ECU through Voyages Series

Rick Steves, American travel writer, TV personality and activist, will present “Travel as a Political Act,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 20 in the Main Campus Student Center ballrooms at...

Feb 04, 2020
  • ECU News Services

East Carolina University opens Water Resources Center

East Carolina University’s Water Resources Center, housed in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Geological Sciences, had its official grand opening Jan. 30 in...

Jan 14, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

NATIONALLY RANKED

Online graduate programs at East Carolina University have been recognized among the nation’s best in a new ranking by U.S. News & World Report. ECU’s master’s programs in business, criminal...

Amber Arnold, assistant director of student success in the Pirate Academic Success Center, works with ECU student Nolan McDonald on an assignment. Photo by Rhett Butler.
Jan 13, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

MINDSET TO SUCCESS

Nolan McDonald speaks from experience: You can turn around a bad first semester. Now a junior, McDonald moved to East Carolina University from his hometown of Medford, New Jersey. Not...

Dec 17, 2019
  • Jules Norwood

X MARKS THE LAB

From the elevator, turn left down the hall and take 20 paces. Turn left again, and X marks the spot where Pirates are learning science in East Carolina University’s new,...