Awards and Recognition Archives

Sep 10, 2020
  • Ken Buday

ECU receives award for its focus on diversity and inclusiveness

East Carolina University’s focus on diversity and inclusiveness has been recognized for the ninth consecutive year with the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award. The HEED award, sponsored by...

Sep 04, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

BREADTH OF EXCELLENCE

East Carolina University ranked in the top 15% of schools picked as a Best Bang for the Buck in the Southeast in Washington Monthly’s 2020 College Guide released Aug. 31....

Aug 21, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

SURVEY SAYS

Text. East Carolina University is included in the 2021 edition of The Best 386 Colleges, an annual guidebook published by the Princeton Review, an educational services company known for its...

Jun 25, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

ECU ranks highly for planning for course delivery during the COVID-19 crisis

East Carolina University has been listed as one of the best prepared for the COVID-19 reality as colleges across the country plan to open this fall. Educate to Career, a...

Jun 18, 2020
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU English professor wins international book award for second time

Dr. Andrea Kitta, associate professor of English at East Carolina University, has won the 2020 Brian McConnell Book Award for her recent book, “The Kiss of Death: Contagion, Contamination and...

Jun 15, 2020
  • Ken Buday

ECU safety professional receives national award

An East Carolina University safety professional and alumnus has received recognition from a global safety organization. Ogaga Tebehaevu, an industrial hygiene specialist in ECU’s Office of Environmental Health and Safety,...

May 27, 2020
  • Spaine Stephens

ECU dental, medical students named NC Schweitzer Fellows

Seven students from East Carolina University’s Division of Health Sciences have been named to the 2020-21 class of North Carolina Albert Schweitzer Fellows, including four students from the School of...

May 22, 2020
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda

Brody’s Gold Humanism Honor Society chapter receives outstanding ranking

The Brody School of Medicine chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) recently received its first “Outstanding” ranking from the Arnold P. Gold Foundation. Established in 2002, the Gold...

May 19, 2020
  • Jules Norwood

Scrimgeour named winner of NCLR’s Albright Prize

Andrew Scrimgeour of Cary is the winner of the 2020 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize competition for “Trouble in the Heartland,” which will be published in the North Carolina Literary...

May 14, 2020
  • Jules Norwood

EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING

More than 21 faculty members at East Carolina University have been recognized for teaching excellence by the university and the UNC Board of Governors. “Great teaching is always at the...