Fine Arts & Communication Archives

A college man and college woman stand together in front of a brick building labeled the Fletcher Music Center. He holds a conducting baton and she holds a violin.
Oct 17, 2025
  • Jessica VanderKolk

ECU music students see big benefits from long-time faculty member’s gift

A gift that doubled the East Carolina University School of Music’s ability to give student scholarships has begun benefiting those music students — especially at the graduate level. The School...

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...

A woman stands in an art gallery next to a grouping of plinths holding what appear to be small metal, and larger ceramic, art pieces. A fabric piece hands on the wall in the background
Oct 02, 2025
  • Jessica VanderKolk

Staff: Shannon McGinnis

Shannon McGinnis loves learning, talking to people about learning, and nurturing those connections as she works and learns at East Carolina University. McGinnis is in her third year as an...

A college man wearing a plaid shirt looks through a large wooden cylinder that will become a drum.
Oct 02, 2025
  • Jessica VanderKolk

Student: Nathan Rittler

Before arriving at East Carolina University, junior Nathan Rittler had not played a snare drum and, once he started his percussion education here, wondered whether understanding the physical object would...

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...

Sep 29, 2025
  • Jessica VanderKolk

Communication research will study impact of AI in entertainment

Spend any time online lately and artificial intelligence (AI) will offer to answer your internet search query, summarize lengthy documents, improve the tone of your email, and seemingly endless other...

A woman, wearing a black and gold flecked suit jacket, stands smiling at a podium with a pointer and a book. There is a Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences banner in the background.
Sep 18, 2025
  • Lacey L. Gray

Thriving in times of radical change: Reconnecting to humanity

East Carolina University welcomed Sam Rad (Samantha Radocchia), an anthropologist, entrepreneur and futurist focused on human connection in the era of artificial intelligence, to campus on Sept. 11 for the first of two events...

Sep 08, 2025
  • Jessica VanderKolk

ECU musicians create new music experience with electronics, percussion

When you click play on a digital song or drop the needle on a turntable, you expect to hear the same version of a song every time. East Carolina University...

Aug 20, 2025
  • Steven Grandy

Parker Lee, communication, Greenville Utilities Commission

The biggest lesson that Parker Lee learned this summer as an intern with Greenville Utilities Commission (GUC) is a simple one. “Everyone has a story, no matter how long they’ve...