Community Engagement Archives

Jul 02, 2025
  • Kristen Martin

PIRATE program sparks interest in teaching among high schoolers

Three days of community building, lesson planning and college life. That’s what 104 high school students from 35 North Carolina counties experienced on East Carolina University’s campus June 18-20 through...

Jun 25, 2025
  • Jessica VanderKolk

ECU festival connects young talent with renowned pianists

California teen Ari Nemet’s fingers flew across the keys as he played a Felix Mendelssohn composition on one of two side-by-side grand pianos on stage at East Carolina University’s A.J....

Jun 24, 2025
  • Jessica VanderKolk

Summer camps create community opportunity, fine arts pipeline

Incoming East Carolina University freshman Taylor O’Neal is flowing through the pipeline of School of Art and Design (SOAD) Summer Camp to ECU college student. O’Neal sat at a computer...

Jun 20, 2025
  • Spaine Stephens

Preparing Tomorrow’s Dentists gives prospective students a look at dental school

Ivianna Phifer adjusted her phone to just the right angle as she held a dental instrument in each hand and awaited instructions. Phifer was decked out in personal protective gear...

Jun 17, 2025
  • Spaine Stephens

Grant expands dental school’s program for oral health care to pre-K, Head Start

Mallory Jones held out her arms as her 6-year-old daughter bounced through the door of the East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine’s Pediatric Clinic. Jones smiled as her daughter,...

Jun 13, 2025
  • Jessica VanderKolk

Students, staff, alumni team up for “Much Ado About Nothing”

Those involved with a production of William Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” at East Carolina University this weekend hope the audience sees that Shakespeare’s plays are relatable and and that...

Jun 06, 2025
  • Ken Buday

ECU conference highlights region’s growing pharma industry

East Carolina University’s Spring Pharma Conference highlighted industry growth while providing workers an opportunity to “find pharma knowledge.” Nearly 300 people from more than 100 pharmaceutical and life sciences companies...

Jun 04, 2025
  • Jessica VanderKolk
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

ECU professors share art, science, culture via Smithsonian exhibits

Visitors to Smithsonian museums this summer will have the chance to see art exhibits touched by two East Carolina University professors. Photography professor Daniel Kariko from the School of Art...

Soldiers in camouflage uniform speak with men and women in a gymnasium
Jun 04, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

ECU’s interdisciplinary approach enhances ROTC cadet wellness

On an unseasonably brisk April morning, a dozen or so students in a calliope of East Carolina sweatshirts and winter coats shivered against the cold, laughing and watching as a...

woman in a patterned top stands outside in the morning sun.
Jun 03, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Faculty: Sherri Winslow

Sherri Winslow never had to go too far from home to change the world. Her family — she was raised in a farming community near Elizabeth City — grew corn,...