ECU Now Blog Archives

Oct 12, 2023
  • Ken Buday

PharmaFest to offer career paths to ECU students in a variety of programs

The pharmaceutical industry isn’t just for chemists and biologists anymore, and an event at East Carolina University is designed to show just that. The Eastern Region Pharma Center has scheduled...

Oct 11, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Faculty, staff donors give ECU time, talent and treasure

East Carolina University’s faculty and staff demonstrate their dedication to the university’s mission in their daily efforts to educate students and manage its programs. Many go beyond their work commitments...

Oct 04, 2023
  • ECU Advancement

ECU Alumni Association announces new board members

The East Carolina University Alumni Association (ECUAA) welcomed six new members to its board of directors. The newly elected members Joel Banjo-Johnson, Robert Heddrick, Angela Hill, Nadia Jones, Kenneth Nealy...

Oct 03, 2023
  • Ken Buday

ECU student receives $20,000 from MrBeast during walk across campus

East Carolina University student Jack Costello had a good reason to hang up on his girlfriend — 20,000 of them to be exact. “I told her, ‘I think that’s MrBeast....

Oct 03, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

ECU professor honored as NCNA Education Nurse of the Year

Dr. Mark Hand, an East Carolina University clinical nursing professor, was named the Education Nurse of the Year by the North Carolina Nurses Association at a gala event Sept. 14...

Oct 02, 2023
  • Michael Rudd

ECU College of Business celebrates record-breaking financial support

Almost 160 College of Business (COB) students, faculty and donors celebrated a record-breaking $435,000 in scholarships at the college’s annual scholarship ceremony Sept. 27. To kickstart the event, Interim COB...

Sep 29, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

Board of Trustees hears from students about their experiences at ECU

East Carolina University students shared how university support and resources are contributing to their successes in presentations to the ECU Board of Trustees, who met Thursday and Friday. On Friday,...

Sep 27, 2023
  • Spaine Stephens

Dental school dean takes helm of international dental organization

Dr. Greg Chadwick, dean of the East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine, was officially installed on Tuesday as president of the FDI World Dental Federation during the organization’s 2023...

Sep 26, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

ECU Foundation welcomes new board members

East Carolina University alumni and a current ECU student are among eight new members of the ECU Foundation board of directors. Taylor Chappell, Gordon Darragh, Barbara Dominick, Jessica Gorall, Adam Keen, Brian Miller, Christina...

Sep 25, 2023
  • Ken Buday

ECU alumnus offers academic, career advice to students

Pablo Hernández didn’t know English. He learned it. His parents didn’t go to college. He did. Growing up in Venezuela, he came to America, accepting an unpaid internship because he...