Community Engagement Archives

Feb 19, 2025
  • Jessica VanderKolk

ECU composer Taggart recalls unique filmed opera during height of COVID-19 pandemic

Longtime East Carolina University faculty member Mark Taggart had already been baking bread for years when the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020, but he had not composed an opera specifically...

Feb 18, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Students lead café kitchen at ECU, learning nutrition and food service skills

In early February, students in chef’s coats and a motley array of East Carolina University baseball hats fired up the grills, sharpened the knives and turned on the cash registers...

R1 Top-tier Research University
Feb 13, 2025
  • Jamie Smith
  • Kim Tilghman

ECU’s research efforts earn prestigious R1 status

East Carolina University has reached a transformative milestone in its journey of discovery, securing Research 1 (R1) status and joining the ranks of the nation’s most prestigious academic institutions. This...

Fast-moving and turgid flood waters move down a moderate slope upon which a red brick ranch house sits partially submerged.
Feb 11, 2025
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Agromedicine Institute continues aid, outreach through western North Carolina’s hurricane recovery

Recovering from a natural disaster can be as harrowing as the event itself, and it does not discriminate, but it lands differently for farmers and farm families. Growers are tied...

A man in a gray shirt and black apron holds a coffee order.
Feb 06, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Awaken Coffee expands to ECU: Empowering the differently abled, one cup at a time

As of Feb. 3, the East Carolina University Health Sciences Campus is fully caffeinated again. Awaken Coffee, which offers premium coffee brewed and served by members of the greater Greenville...

Group of people performing ribbon-cutting with large scissors at Wildwood Park.
Jan 29, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

StoryWalks merge fun, fitness with reading

Parents and caregivers emphasized the fun of reading as they enjoyed spirited and reading-based activities for children at Wildwood Park on Jan. 18 to help introduce StoryWalks to Greenville. StoryWalk...

Jan 22, 2025
  • Crystal Baity
  • Shelby Hudnall

Treasured Pirates, longtime employees honored at recognition ceremony

East Carolina University’s 2024 Treasured Pirates and employees who have achieved 30 or more years of state service were recognized in a ceremony at Harvey Hall on Jan. 13, the...

A woman with dark hair, wearing a black sweater, stands between shelving units lifting a box to add it to the shelf.
Jan 13, 2025
  • Kristen Martin
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Mellon Foundation funds paid internship program

East Carolina University will receive more than $1 million for the College of Education (COE) to support paid archival studies internships through a first-time grant from the Mellon Foundation’s Public...

Jan 06, 2025
  • Ken Buday

ECU receives $650,000 grant to help companies with pollution prevention

The East Carolina University Center for Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering (CSE3) has received a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to enhance sustainability and prevent pollution in North Carolina...

Dec 17, 2024
  • Spaine Stephens

ECU Smiles for Veterans tradition continues momentum with Ross Hall event

Samantha Yarboro, a second-year student in East Carolina University’s School of Dental Medicine, joined the U.S. Navy in 2013 and separated in July 2023, a month before beginning dental school....