ECU Now Blog Archives

Oct 23, 2024
  • Michael Rudd

Entrepreneurs pitch business ideas in the Gene T. Aman Pirate Challenge

On the day when the Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge was officially renamed the Gene T. Aman Pirate Challenge, the energy and excitement from the announcement spilled onto East Carolina University’s Mall...

Oct 22, 2024
  • Alondra Martinez

Quarteto Nuevo brings eclectic fusion to ECU performing arts series

Quarteto Nuevo will make their presence known on as they take the stage for the second performance for the 63rd annual S. Rudolph Alexander Performing Arts Series at East Carolina...

Oct 18, 2024
  • Ken Buday
  • Steven Grandy

Opportunities arise at ECU’s PharmaFest

East Carolina University students attending PharmaFest on Wednesday sought just one thing. “I’m looking for an opportunity. It doesn’t really matter if it’s an internship or a job. I’m just...

Oct 16, 2024
  • Lacey L. Gray

Harriot College thanks donors, honors student scholarship recipients at annual celebration

East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences celebrated students and thanked its generous donors at the college’s ninth annual scholarship celebration on Oct. 11 in the Main...

Oct 10, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

Professor, student team up to study impact of foreign medical missions

Lindsay Jarman started volunteering on mission trips shortly after graduation as a nurse from Georgia Southern University — in Kenya, Honduras, Ecuador and Zimbabwe — to help provide a range...

Oct 10, 2024
  • Spaine Stephens

ECU dental school alumnus flies supplies to hurricane-stricken communities

Days after Hurricane Helene delivered devastation to western North Carolina, Dr. Jonathan Austin answered a phone call — and made good on a promise he made years earlier to serve...

Oct 08, 2024
  • ECU News Services

CSI faculty receive NSF grant for renewable ocean energy research

A $3.6 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant awarded to researchers from the University of Michigan, East Carolina University, UNC-Chapel Hill and Virginia Tech is aimed at increasing energy resilience...

Oct 02, 2024
  • Lacey L. Gray

Marshall Island serves as resting place for WWII battle vehicles

The island of Roi-Namur is located in the northern part of Kwajalein Atoll, one of the many volcanic islands and coral atolls comprising the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Situated...

Sep 26, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

Pirate nurse alumna leads health care change in Moldova

Alumna Hilary Mendel had a plan to change the world when she arrived at East Carolina University in 2006. The Pirate nurse has seen that vision through, using her nursing...

Sep 24, 2024
  • Crystal Baity

ECU ranks among the best in North Carolina and nationwide

Outcome-focused ECU is among the top 500 universities in the country named the 2025 Best Colleges in a new Wall Street Journal/College Pulse ranking. ECU is in the top half...