ECU Now Blog Archives

Oct 19, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

ECU alum leads N.C. rehabilitation hospital to leadership on the global stage

In time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first graduating class of East Carolina University’s occupational therapy program, a large constellation of nonprofit therapy and rehabilitation hospitals and clinics,...

Oct 19, 2023
  • Jules Norwood

ECU student teams launch startup ideas for entrepreneurship challenge

More than 70 teams participated in the first round of the seventh annual Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge, competing for $170,000 in cash and in-kind prizes in the East Carolina University College...

Oct 18, 2023
  • Ken Buday

EPA grant to help ECU prevent pollution, improve health

One person’s trash is another, well, is everybody’s problem. East Carolina University’s Center for Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering (CSE3) recognizes that and aims to help companies and manufacturers reduce...

Oct 17, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

Scholarship-sponsored travel helps ECU nursing student with Spanish skills

Madiha Abdelhakim, a senior nursing student from Cary, spent part of the past summer, like a number of undergrads, traveling with her roommates in Europe. Her month in Spain, however,...

Oct 17, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

ECU alumnus Richard Twilley excited for ‘awesome job’ as homecoming grand marshal

Alumnus Richard Twilley ’89 will have a view from the front of the East Carolina University homecoming parade Saturday after being chosen to serve as grand marshal of the Pirate...

Oct 16, 2023
  • Kristen Martin

Pitt County science teachers to receive fully funded master’s degrees from ECU

Ten Pitt County middle grades science educators will receive fully funded master’s degrees in science education from East Carolina University as part of a new partnership between the College of...

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....