News Release Archives

Sep 04, 2024
  • ECU News Services

ECU enrollment is up for fall 2024

With two weeks of classes, a gridiron victory and the Labor Day holiday behind them, East Carolina University students are now in the full swing of the fall semester. While...

Sep 04, 2024
  • Steven Grandy

ECU poll sheds light on upcoming elections

GREENVILLE, N.C. (9/3/2024) - The East Carolina University Center for Survey Research today announced the results of its latest poll regarding the upcoming elections in North Carolina. According to the...

Aug 27, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

ECU national finalist, one of four regional winners of W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Engagement Award

GREENVILLE, N.C. (8/22/2024) — East Carolina University is one of four national universities recognized for extraordinary community engagement initiatives and named a regional winner of the 2024 W.K. Kellogg Foundation...

Aug 20, 2024
  • ECU News Services

ECU Voyages Series to feature actor, literacy advocate, wildlife conservationist

(Photos courtesy of Gotham Artists) GREENVILLE, N.C. (8/21/2024) — East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Voyages of Discovery Series will feature two special guests for the...

Aug 13, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

ECU and ECU Health partner on new nursing program to expand acute care workforce in North Carolina

GREENVILLE, N.C. (08/12/2024) — East Carolina University’s College of Nursing and ECU Health are launching an Adult Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program, a new graduate-level certificate program that will...

Aug 05, 2024
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Awards to recognize outstanding ECU alumni and devoted friend

Six outstanding East Carolina University alumni and a longtime Pirate friend will be honored by the ECU Alumni Association this fall for their careers and service to the university. The awards...

Aug 01, 2024
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU to launch eastern North Carolina alumni chapter

East Carolina University alumni living in the heart of Pirate territory will have a chapter of their own when the East Carolina University Alumni Association (ECUAA) launches the eastern North...

Jul 30, 2024
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU researchers explore lost Aleutian battlefield

East Carolina University faculty and alumni from the maritime studies program, housed in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Department of History, successfully led the first underwater archaeology...

Jul 29, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

College of Nursing to expand undergraduate program with state funding 

East Carolina University’s College of Nursing has received a significant investment of $3 million from the state of North Carolina to increase the number of entry-to-practice nurses who graduate from the...

Jul 15, 2024
  • ECU News Services

ECU Rural Education Institute to host summer learning exchange

The Rural Education Institute at East Carolina University will host its annual summer learning exchange on Wednesday. Educators from across eastern North Carolina will attend as part of an effort...