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....
Community Engagement Archives
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Bedford Falls Foundation invests in medic-to-nurse pathway at ECU
A generous gift from the Bedford Falls Foundation-DAF will launch a first-of-its-kind initiative at East Carolina University to establish a medic-to-nurse pathway that will bring military medics through the accelerated...