News Release Archives

Mar 30, 2023
  • ECU News Services

ECU to host FIRST North Carolina state robotics competition

East Carolina University will host about 1,300 high school students at the North Carolina FIRST Robotics Competition State Championship Saturday and Sunday inside Minges Coliseum. Forty teams from across North...

Mar 29, 2023
  • ECU News Services

ECU joins campuses nationwide in effort to support voting

East Carolina University is one of more than 250 campuses in 38 states and the District of Columbia designated as a Voter Friendly Campus through 2024.  Two national nonpartisan organizations —...

Mar 27, 2023
  • ECU News Services

Pirate Nation Gives surpasses expectations

Donations came from campus and across oceans as more than 2,300 Pirates answered the call to support East Carolina University during Pirate Nation Gives. The seventh annual day of giving on...

Mar 20, 2023
  • ECU News Services

ECU set to celebrate seventh day of giving Wednesday

East Carolina University will celebrate its seventh annual day of giving on Wednesday. Pirate Nation Gives is a 24-hour online fundraising event that encourages alumni, friends, faculty, staff, parents and...

Mar 02, 2023
  • ECU News Services

ECU students, staff to volunteer across North Carolina during alternative spring break

Students and staff from East Carolina University will spend spring break serving others in communities from the mountains to coastal North Carolina. ECU’s Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement has...

Feb 23, 2023
  • ECU News Services

International ocean observing system relocating to NC coast

This week, a team of scientists and engineers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) left Charleston, South Carolina, aboard the research vessel Neil Armstrong to begin test deployments in preparation...

Feb 21, 2023
  • ECU News Services

Dr. Jesse R. Peel LGBTQ Center to host symposium

The Dr. Jesse R. Peel LGBTQ Center will host LOVE ONE ANOTHER, a half-day symposium created to explore the intersection of faith traditions and LGBTQ identities. The symposium will take...

Feb 14, 2023
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ECU awarded $3.2M grant from United Health Foundation to improve youth mental health

The United Health Foundation, the philanthropic foundation of UnitedHealth Group, today announced a three-year, $3.2 million grant partnership with East Carolina University. The grant will expand the North Carolina Statewide...

Feb 13, 2023
  • ECU News Services

ECU to host spring career fairs

East Carolina University Career Services will host two job fairs on Feb. 15 at the Greenville Convention Center. The Science, Engineering and Technology Fair will be from 8:30-11:30 a.m. followed...

Jan 30, 2023
  • ECU News Services

Starship Technologies, Grubhub launch robot delivery service on ECU campus

Students, faculty and staff at East Carolina University can now have food delivered by robots from main campus dining locations through an ECU Dining Services partnership with Starship Technologies and...