Business Archives

Jan 11, 2021
  • Matt Smith

Farmville’s Café Madeleine, RISE29 interns connect over confections

A group of East Carolina University interns is helping an artisanal bakery bring the taste of France to Farmville. Through ECU’s student entrepreneurship program RISE29, College of Fine Arts and...

Jan 05, 2021
  • Matt Smith

MARKETING MEGAPHONE

Moving around during childhood can be stressful for any student constantly boxing up and uprooting their lives. After more than four moves and a constant reshuffling of schools and friends,...

Jan 05, 2021
  • Matt Smith

BUILDING BUSINESSES

Libraries aren’t traditionally the place you go for small business support, but one East Carolina University student is changing that perception in Wayne County. Accounting major Dejah McManus, an Indian...

Dec 03, 2020
  • ECU News Services

FALL 2020 COMMENCEMENT — COLLEGE CELEBRATIONS

Graduates, parents, families and friends, please join us at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 4 for our virtual Fall 2020 Commencement Ceremony. Watch the ceremony live on the commencement website, or...

Grad Profile: Emma O'Brien
Nov 30, 2020
  • Kristen Martin

PUSHING BOUNDARIES

When opportunity knocked, Emma O’Brien was ready to answer. “When I first came into school, I was so pigeon-holed into what I thought I wanted to do. When I thought...

Grad Profile: Deborah Foley
Nov 30, 2020
  • Michael Rudd

NOT LETTING GO

Management Information Systems major Deborah Foley started her East Carolina University journey 30 years ago in Massachusetts when she tried to finish her undergraduate degree during a time where she...

Fall 2020 Grad Profiles
Nov 25, 2020
  • ECU News Services

FULL SPEED AHEAD

East Carolina University’s graduating class of fall 2020 includes more than 2,000 students who will turn their tassels this week (from home — the Friday, Dec. 4 ceremony is virtual...

Nov 18, 2020
  • Michael Rudd

ECU’s Miller School of Entrepreneurship continues national ranking

The Miller School of Entrepreneurship in East Carolina University's College of Business (COB) made the Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine list of Top 50 Undergraduate Schools for Entrepreneurship. The Miller...

Nov 12, 2020
  • Erin Ward
  • Michael Rudd

GIVING BACK

Two recent gifts from College of Business alumni will improve the college’s existing student success center and create a new faculty position. Steve Cunanan and his wife Ellen, both COB...

Nov 09, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

Student: Brady Hillhouse

Brady Hillhouse taught himself how to day trade markets in high school, stumbling upon entrepreneurship by accident after starting an online community where people could share ideas and ask questions....