ECU Now Blog Archives

Jan 30, 2023
  • Kim Tilghman

ECU-led group addresses housing needs in eastern North Carolina

East Carolina University’s Office of Research, Economic Development and Engagement (REDE) is addressing the housing needs for low-and moderate-income families in northeast North Carolina. Under the guidance of REDE, the...

Jan 27, 2023
  • Michael Rudd

Diverse business ideas highlighted at Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge

The next Pirate entrepreneur is one step closer to winning this year’s Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge. The second round of the 2022-23 Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge was held Wednesday in the Main...

Jan 26, 2023
  • Spaine Stephens

Banquet honors graduating medical students, legacy of caring

The 39th annual Andrew A. Best, MD Senior Recognition Banquet honored an eastern North Carolina legacy in medicine — and celebrated the graduating members of the Student National Medical Association...

Jan 25, 2023
  • ECU News Services

ECU, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy establish early assurance program

The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, the No. 1 pharmacy school in the country, and East Carolina University have established an early assurance program. This partnership means current and incoming...

Jan 19, 2023
  • Kristen Martin

ECU’s McClammy Lab celebrates 10 years of counseling success, history

During the last few years, the importance of mental health has become a prevalent topic. This increased focus showcases the importance of spaces like East Carolina University's McClammy Counseling and...

Jan 11, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Enthusiasm for ECU inspires planned gifts

Duane Grooms’ love and loyalty for his alma mater meet the call of the university’s first president, Robert H. Wright, who hoped for “every student ... to go out from...

Jan 10, 2023
  • Spaine Stephens

ECU alumna named N.C. Distinguished Family Physician of the Year

Shannon B. Dowler, a 1999 graduate of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, was named the 2022 Distinguished Family Physician Award winner by the North Carolina Academy...

Jan 04, 2023
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda

Brody chapter of Gold Humanism Honor Society inducts new members

The East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) recently inducted 12 new members. Fourth-year medical students Gary Allen, Mona Amin, Kari Beasley,...

Dec 21, 2022
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Privette meeting room a venue for exchanging ideas, positive interactions

Doug Privette ’72 came to East Carolina University in 1968 with a suitcase and a plan to focus exclusively on academics. He found friends and his life’s purpose in ECU’s...

Dec 20, 2022
  • Doug Boyd

ECU anthropology course questions pseudoscience in search for solutions

Binge-watching lists for the holidays might include a new Netflix series that proposes survivors of an ice-age cataclysm fanned out across the globe and influenced civilizations from the Andes to...