Honors College Archives

Apr 17, 2023
  • Lacey L. Gray
  • Michael Rudd

EC Scholars to participate in UNC System program

A pair of East Carolina University EC Scholars have been selected to participate in the Marian Drane Graham Scholars Program with the UNC System. Starting this summer, rising senior Aurora...

Assistant director Lacee Thomason, left, and director Riley Yates rehearse a scene from “SCOUTS” with members of the 5th Street Players.
Mar 31, 2023
  • Kristen Martin

PASSION PROJECT

A common piece of writing advice is to write what you know. East Carolina University alumna Caitlyn Leach ’18 did just that when she created the concept for “SCOUTS,” an...

Tessa Gibson works on a canoe with Gerald Weckesser in East Carolina University's first boat building class in summer 2016. Weckesser is building relationships that bring the boat building techniques to classrooms across the world.
Mar 10, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

BUILDING BOATS AND BRIDGES

A boat building course at East Carolina University has become the perfect vessel to build bridges with other universities and institutions at home and abroad. Since 2016, School of Art...

East Carolina University political science major and Honors College sophomore Tierney Reardon is expanding her global understanding while studying and interning this semester in London.
Mar 06, 2023
  • Lacey L. Gray

THE LONDON EXPERIENCE

East Carolina University sophomore Tierney Reardon is expanding her global understanding through a semester-long study abroad experience in London. Reardon, who is an EC Scholar in the Honors College, is...

Mar 01, 2023
  • Michael Rudd

Faculty: Linda Quick

Linda Quick first met Cal Christian, chair of the College of Business' Department of Accounting, during her senior of high school in 2001 when he interviewed her for the Honors...

Feb 17, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

ECU, Golden LEAF Foundation prepare scholars for regional impact

“Stand if you’re a first-generation student. Stand if you are majoring in education. Stand if you are a proud Pirate.” By the end of the list, everyone at the eighth...

Feb 10, 2023
  • Ronnie Woodward

Faculty honored for authorship, promoting student affordability

The process of authoring or editing a book was rewarded, along with faculty use of free course materials to benefit student affordability, during an awards ceremony Wednesday at the East...

Feb 10, 2023
  • Kristen Martin

Study finds lack of diversity in health stock photo libraries

A class assignment during his first year of college opened the door for East Carolina University Honors College alumnus Zach Chichester to publish a study highlighting how the lack of...

Feb 03, 2023
  • Kristen Martin

Student illustrations bring new life to 19th century manuscripts

It all started with an email. East Carolina University Honors College student Delaney Meginniss read an email about a possible job for art majors or those interested in art and...

Elizabeth Bailey has choreographed a dance piece about healing from trauma that will be performed Saturday and Sunday in ECU’s Archie Burnette Studio Theatre.
Feb 02, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

‘PIECES OF US’

Elizabeth Bailey’s experience of healing from trauma inspired a collaborative research project and dance performance that will open on stage Saturday and Sunday. “Pieces of Us” will feature Bailey’s original...