ECU Now Blog Archives

Mar 05, 2025
  • Steven Grandy

College of Business hosts inaugural Pirate Sales Challenge

What convinces a consumer to purchase a product or service? Students in East Carolina University’s Twilley Academy of Sales Leadership developed their best sales pitches on Feb. 27-28 as part...

Mar 04, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

ECU set to celebrate ninth day of giving Wednesday

Students on the East Carolina University Club Volleyball team intend to compete in nationals this year in Phoenix, Arizona. They are counting on donations and bonus money earned during Pirate...

Mar 03, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Pirate Nation Gives offers many ways to support university

Scan the code and give to an area of East Carolina University that is important to you. Using the QR code embedded on signs around campus and seen in this...

Feb 25, 2025
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU biologist contributes to worldwide climate-resilient conservation efforts

East Carolina University’s Dr. Rachel Gittman, an associate professor in the Department of Biology, along with several student researchers in her lab, have been working with other experts and federal agencies...

Feb 19, 2025
  • Jessica VanderKolk

ECU composer Taggart recalls unique filmed opera during height of COVID-19 pandemic

Longtime East Carolina University faculty member Mark Taggart had already been baking bread for years when the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020, but he had not composed an opera specifically...

Feb 12, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

Fifty years of enhancing recreational therapy

East Carolina University is serving as a vibrant hub for National Recreational Therapy Month in February. On the state level, ECU will host the North Carolina Recreational Therapy Association’s Student-Professionals...

Feb 07, 2025
  • ECU News Services

Board of Trustees hears research highlights

With a 127% increase in research funding since 2018, East Carolina University is making a positive difference in the lives of students and people throughout the region, nation and world....

Feb 07, 2025
  • Michael Rudd

Six finalists to compete in April’s Aman Pirate Challenge finals

First, there were 75. Then there were 12. Now, there are six. On a night when 12 student-led teams summoned the courage to stand on a stage and pitch their...

Feb 05, 2025
  • Michael Rudd

Miller School Names New Director

The College of Business (COB) has named Dr. Joshua R. Aaron the Miller School of Entrepreneurship's new director. He takes over for Dr. Michael Harris, who officially became dean of...

Feb 03, 2025
  • Steven Grandy

Polar Bear Plunge delivers splashes and smiles

For East Carolina University junior Kaliyah Crowder, the wait was more than worth it. The hospitality management major from Raleigh took her place at the front of the line at...