Community Engagement Archives

College students acting on stage stand in a group pose, many with hands up. They are wearing mostly blue outfits and many are holding gold pom poms. A student in the middle wears pink and gold, with a pink tuxedo-style jacket and top hat.
Nov 18, 2025
  • Jessica VanderKolk

‘Legally Blonde: The Musical’ offers exciting, women-led performances this week

“Omigod you guys!” It’s a pink-lovers dream at East Carolina University this week as “Legally Blonde: The Musical” opens on the McGinnis Auditorium stage. The School of Theatre and Dance...

Nov 17, 2025
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Scholarships top $1M, ease debt, light way for medical students

At East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine, the annual scholarship celebration is more than a recognition of financial aid — it’s an incantation of the transformative power of generosity...

Nov 04, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Healing After Helene: One Pirate therapist’s call to serve

After Hurricane Helene struck the mountains of western North Carolina, word of the destruction leaked slowly from the mountainsides and overwashed valleys. For one Pirate alum, a family rescue mission...

Four library employees use large scissors to cut gold ribbon.
Oct 28, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

New spaces brighten, enhance Teaching Resources Center

It’s a new era at the Colonel Richard M. and Betty Debnam Hunt Teaching Resources Center. Tyanna Watson, a junior birth through kindergarten teacher education major, realized that moments after...

Oct 24, 2025
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU awarded $1.65 million to continue researching gambling behavior, risk

East Carolina University’s Gambling Research Policy Initiative (GRPI) has received an extension of a half-million-dollar grant that ended in August of this year. The new $1.65 million funding from the...

Architectural rendering of the east view of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, showing a landscaped walkway with trees, seating areas and people walking near a modern glass and brick building.
Oct 21, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Center for Medical Education gains golden support

The vision for the state-of-the-art technology in the Center for Medical Education (CME) at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine came into better focus this month thanks to a...

Group of about 30 students seated in three rooms in Dowdy-Ficklen stadium purple seats.
Oct 20, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall
  • Kristen Martin

Maynard family gift strengthens College of Education scholarship program

A new investment in East Carolina University’s College of Education (COE) came with a clear directive – go educate [more] future teachers. The multi-million dollar commitment from the Maynard family...

A young woman holding an insulated cup stands at the left side, speaking with a young woman in the middle. To their right are two young women watching the others. The are standing in front of a posterboard, visible at the bottom.
Oct 10, 2025
  • Steven Grandy

Aman Challenge showcases ECU student entrepreneurs

The entrepreneurial spirit filled the air on the East Carolina University Mall on Oct. 7 as 85 student teams representing 47 majors participated in the first round of the ninth...

Oct 10, 2025
  • Jessica VanderKolk

Film students advance in first college-level business pitch competition

A team of entrepreneurial East Carolina University film and video production students are on their way to Round 2 in the Gene T. Aman Pirate Challenge (APC), the university’s signature...

Six college dance students perform in a rough line, leaning back and holding their hands forward. They are wearing pants with suspenders, buttoned shirts withy the sleeves rolled, and red bandanas on their heads.
Sep 30, 2025
  • Jessica VanderKolk

Fall dance production hopes to engage audiences in celebrating Motown music

From a Detroit factory assembly line to a neighborhood stoop and the street it stands on, East Carolina University dance students take audiences on a journey across the decades to...