ECU Now Blog Archives

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...

Sep 23, 2024
  • Kristen Martin

College of Education celebrates scholarship recipients, donors

The East Carolina University College of Education celebrated students and donors during the annual scholarship recipient and donor recognition ceremony on Sept. 6. More than $800,000 in scholarship funding was...

Sep 20, 2024
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Access Scholarship program yields transformative student success

Anyone seeking to understand East Carolina University’s strategic focus on student success and its intersection with philanthropy need only visit a scholarship event like the Access Scholarship luncheon held Sept....

Sep 19, 2024
  • University Advancement

New board members announced for ECU Alumni Association

The East Carolina University Alumni Association (ECUAA) welcomed three new members to its board of directors. The newly elected members, Dr. Akeen Hamilton, Jacob Quinn and Morgan Squatriglia, joined the...

Sep 18, 2024
  • ECU Health News

Brody among top medical schools where students graduate with lowest debt

The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University is among the top-performing medical schools in the country when it comes to providing an affordable education for future clinicians, according...