MARKETING MAIN STREET
Twenty minutes north of Greenville sits the little town of Bethel. With fewer than 1,700 residents, you won’t find a sprawling shopping mall or a towering multiplex with the latest...
Business Archives
How might ENC businesses recover from COVID-19? Look to the past
College of Business expert Dr. Laura Madden joins us in Talk Like a Pirate: Episode 12 to compare the local business economic recovery efforts during COVID-19 to recovery efforts during...
Local jewelry startup polishes business with entrepreneurship program
East Carolina University business management senior Ashley Nolan grew up with two loves: creating and selling. By connecting with the university’s student entrepreneurship program, RISE29, she found the opportunity to...
ECU startup flips over hemp for skateboard manufacturing
A student-led East Carolina University startup company has plans to make hemp a household item, not for its use in health products or wholesome snacks, but for its potential to...
Student: Jason Pilkington
East Carolina University student Jason Pilkington loves to be outside and build relationships with people. “I’ve loved being outside for as long as I can remember,” Pilkington said. “I was...
COMMITMENT TO COMMUNITY
A recent East Carolina University graduate and small business owner has started making face shields to help the local medical community during the COVID-19 crisis. Taylor Walden owns Simple and...
HERE TO HELP
8 TIPS FOR SOON-TO-BE JOB HUNTERS Lee Brown, the director of career services for the College of Business, offers eight tips for soon-to-be job hunters. Now is the time to...
LEANING IN
As East Carolina University students switched from in-person to distance education-only classes last week, hundreds of faculty and staff worked from home. Face-to-face lectures or meetings were replaced by virtual...
SUPPORTING STUDENT VETERANS
COURAGE AND SACRIFICE Memorial Walk brick paver dedication ceremony remembers heroes who served Donald Ray Taylor joined the Navy in 1952, bound for basic training in San Diego before being...
Students seek to improve sustainability through composting
Improving Greenville’s environmental sustainability through compost is the goal for several East Carolina University students. Olivia Sessoms, Loring Penna-Welch, Jacob Marshall and Hayden Murphy are four Honors College students who...