Honors College Archives

Nov 13, 2024
  • Ken Buday

Faculty: Dr. Katie Ford

Sometimes, parents do know what’s best. “My dad told me to study Spanish because he said it would be more useful,” said Dr. Katie Ford, associate dean and director of...

A college age woman wearing a brown top smiles as she sits on East Carolina University’s campus.
Nov 06, 2024
  • Alondra Martinez

Student: Ilaria Noonan

When Ilaria Noonan began her college search four years ago, it was an unexpected invitation to join East Carolina University’s Honors College that changed her path. Now, the graduating senior...

Matt Crisp and Mike Harris with an auditorium full of COB students, faculty and friends of the college.
Nov 05, 2024
  • Michael Rudd

Leadership on Display

When College of Business students take their professional development and ethical leadership class, they know that what they learn will be put to the test in a variety of circumstances....

Local community families and children talk to an East Carolina University student at an exhibit outside at the Town Common in Greenville, North Carolina, during the 2023 Tar River Community Science Festival. A red food truck and tent with more staff appear in the background.
Nov 04, 2024
  • Lacey L. Gray

Community festival to celebrate Tar River, science, learning

Zasha Griffin, one of East Carolina University’s Brinkley-Lane Scholars from the Honors College, has excitedly helped to get other students involved in the third annual Tar River Community Science Festival...

Oct 16, 2024
  • Lacey L. Gray

Harriot College thanks donors, honors student scholarship recipients at annual celebration

East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences celebrated students and thanked its generous donors at the college’s ninth annual scholarship celebration on Oct. 11 in the Main...

Bayli Locklear, wearing a white lab coat, stands in front of a countertop full of scientific equipment.
Oct 08, 2024
  • Lacey L. Gray

First MARC students reaping benefits of mentoring, impactful research

  East Carolina University juniors and seniors are receiving the chance of a lifetime through the Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) training program. The immersive biomedical scholars program is...

Sep 23, 2024
  • Kristen Martin

College of Education celebrates scholarship recipients, donors

The East Carolina University College of Education celebrated students and donors during the annual scholarship recipient and donor recognition ceremony on Sept. 6. More than $800,000 in scholarship funding was...

Sep 06, 2024
  • Ronnie Woodward

Living Learning Communities foster forever bonds

Ballard Hall can be a place to learn about the healthy and friendly rivalry between the East Carolina University Air Force ROTC and Army ROTC programs. Cadets from both units...

Paige Day conducted research on summer rainfall at the Coastal Studies Institute on the ECU Outer Banks Campus. (Contributed photo)
Sep 04, 2024
  • Steven Grandy

Pirates make most of summer experiences

Many East Carolina University students spent their summers as interns, gaining real-world experience in their respective fields. These four Pirates played music, studied rainfall, wrote press releases and kept North...

Aug 21, 2024
  • Steven Grandy

Tuscan travelers

A birthday to remember One could say that international travel runs in Kendall Pixley’s blood. Pixley, a public health and biology major from Indian Trail, is the daughter of a...