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A woman with shoulder-length blonde hair stands outside a brick campus building at East Carolina University, smiling, wearing a black sleeveless top with hands clasped in front of her. Text reads: Pirate Profiles.
Aug 19, 2026
  • Alondra Martinez

Student: Anja Schwieterman

ECU maritime studies student Anja Schwieterman is gaining hands-on archaeology experience in North Carolina and Finland. Schwieterman helped document timbers from an 18th-century Spanish shipwreck at Brunswick Town. Her work...

Three people wade through waist-deep water, with plastic tubs of equipment floating between them.
Aug 04, 2026
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU ecologists collaborate on reef, habitat restoration projects to protect shorelines, tourism

ECU researchers have received a $150,000 North Carolina Sea Grant to help evaluate living shoreline designs’ ability to reduce coastal erosion while creating habitat for oysters, fish and marsh species....

A woman in a lavender blouse stands on a gray, brick sidewalk between two buildings with grass and trees in the background.
Aug 03, 2026
  • Ken Buday

Staff: Hailey DeSutter

As a college freshman at East Carolina University, Hailey DeSutter may not have known what she wanted to do for her career. But her mother sure knew. Now, 10 years...

Aug 03, 2026
  • Alondra Martinez

Student: Abigail Smith

Abigail Smith, a senior in ECU’s College of Education, is preparing to become a second grade teacher. Smith has built classroom experience through coursework, volunteering and a STEM educator role...

An East Carolina University student sits behind a metal lab table with computer equipment and tools around her.
Jul 30, 2026
  • Lacey L. Gray

Improving medical treatments through physics

ECU medical physics research could improve antibiotic treatments by making drug-resistant bacteria easier to kill. Graduate student Holly Maschenik studies bacterial spore memory to better understand germination and antibiotic resistance....

ECU Chancellor Philip Rogers sits outdoors with two Chancellor Scholars during a conversation on campus. The three smile and talk while seated on a brick wall in front of blooming pink azaleas, with campus buildings and trees in the background.
Jul 28, 2026
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

State’s endowment match a catalyst for donor support

A $5 million investment from the state will match scholarship endowment gifts. The Chancellor’s Scholars initiative is helping to shape the future of ECU by creating and providing four annual...

A smiling young student rapt in conversation with others is pictured among a sea of students’ faces.
Jul 28, 2026
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Record-breaking medical school class orients itself toward success

At 96 students, the Brody School of Medicine’s Class of 2030 is the largest ever, selected from the largest pool of applications — more than 2,500 — ever received. It’s...

Rudy Alexander, dressed in a red plaid shirt, watches as Linda Kean and Mike Weeks unveil a wall plaque reading “Rudy Alexander Green Room.” Several attendees look on during the dedication ceremony.
Jul 17, 2026
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Rudy Alexander is a permanent fixture of performing arts at ECU

University leaders, family and friends gathered in June to honor Rudy Alexander for his many contributions to the S. Rudolph Alexander Performing Arts Series and ECU. Alexander put the university...

A young woman with long blonde hair wearing a navy dress stands smiling in front of lush green shrubs on East Carolina University’s campus. Text reads
Jul 14, 2026
  • Alondra Martinez

Student: Greta Bublitz

Bublitz is a chemistry and German studies double major on track to attend the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. She researches a noninvasive cancer treatment approach using magnetic nanoparticles in...

A Pirate Profiles graphic featuring an ECU employee seated in the stands at Clark-LeClair Stadium overlooking the baseball field. The left side of the image displays the Pirate Profiles logo on a purple textured background with a yellow star accent, while the right side shows the employee smiling toward the camera with the baseball diamond and
Jul 09, 2026
  • Benjamin Abel

Staff: Lisa Ormond

In most organizations, there is always that one person who holds things together. For the College of Nursing, that person is Lisa Ormond. Ormond is from Snow Hill, which is...

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