Fine Arts & Communication Archives

East Carolina University sign when entering campus.
Jul 27, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

HISTORIC PHILANTHROPY

Donors contributed nearly $100 million in philanthropic support for East Carolina University in 2022-23, making it the most successful fiscal year fundraising endeavor of the comprehensive Pursue Gold campaign and...

A game program from Oct. 26, 1935, is displayed along with other artifacts for the “No Quarter: The History of East Carolina Football and Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium” exhibition.
Jul 26, 2023
  • Ronnie Woodward

NO QUARTER

The contract for the first paid East Carolina University head football coach was signed in 1934 on the back of a postcard. ECU’s only undefeated season was a 7-0 record...

Jun 06, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

Benefit raises funds for 2024 ECU summer theatre

East Carolina University faculty members with featured guest musical director Ana Flavia Zuim of New York University will present “A Musical Evening of Jaques Brel” on June 10-11. Three shows...

Jun 02, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

ECU/Loessin Playhouse announces 2023-24 season

The ECU/Loessin Playhouse in the East Carolina University School of Theatre and Dance has announced its 2023-24 season, which will kick off in September with the annual fall dance concert....

ECU Brinkley-Lane Scholars
May 18, 2023
  • Jules Norwood

Taylor Greene

For 18-year-old Taylor Greene, East Carolina University and the Brinkley-Lane Scholars program represent opportunities — for academic and extracurricular activities, for travel and for connections. “I chose ECU because everyone...

ECU Brinkley-Lane Scholars
May 18, 2023
  • Kristen Martin

Noah Abel

When he received the offer to be a Brinkley-Lane Scholar, Williamston’s Noah Abel was in shock. “First of all, I didn’t even expect to get into the Honors College at...

ECU Brinkley-Lane Scholars
May 18, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

Emma Harrell

Emma Harrell’s goal to become a concept artist for a game development company or in a related field put East Carolina University on her short list of colleges to consider....

ECU Brinkley-Lane Scholars
May 18, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

Alondra Martinez

Alondra Martinez picked East Carolina University for many reasons, but especially the generosity of the student body and the opportunities that she will have as a Brinkley-Lane Scholar. Brinkley-Lane Scholars...

East Carolina University occupational therapy professor Anne Dickerson and film associate professor Erick Green partnered to create a film to educate emergency workers about elderly driver safety.
May 16, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

SERVICE FILM

What happens when a left-brained clinical researcher, a right-brained film production professor and a crew of East Carolina University students and alumni work together on the issue of older driver...

May 09, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Proud Pirate shares lessons with young students, new teachers

Excited voices and giggles rise around Crystal Hodges’ kindergarten classroom. Hodges ’03 ’05 stands and claps. Her class claps back in response and settles into quiet. Hodges choreographed the steps...