News Release Archives

Aug 09, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU Alumni Association welcomes new president

Scott E. Francis has been appointed associate vice chancellor and president of the ECU Alumni Association effective Aug. 9. Francis joins ECU from the University of Florida, where he served...

Aug 06, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU gets $4 million grant to support engineering students

East Carolina University’s College of Engineering and Technology has received a $4 million grant from the National Science Foundation Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Program (S-STEM) in an...

Aug 02, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU to host Disaster Recovery Contracting Summit

Contractors in eastern North Carolina will have the opportunity to prepare for the next big storm at the 2019 Disaster Recovery Contracting Summit presented by the Small Business and Technology...

Jul 26, 2019
  • ECU News Services

Wayne Johns receives top prize in record-breaking NCLR poetry contest

The North Carolina Literary Review, an East Carolina University publication, received a record number of entries for its 2019 James Applewhite Poetry Prize, which has been awarded to Wayne Johns....

Jul 25, 2019
  • ECU News Services

Twenty retired faculty artists will be featured in exhibit opening Aug. 2 at ECU

Twenty retired faculty artists from East Carolina University will be featured in an exhibit opening Aug. 2 in Gray Gallery. It is the second of three planned exhibits celebrating the...

Jul 24, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU certified by Bee Campus USA

East Carolina University has become the 77th educational institution in the nation to be certified as an affiliate of the Bee Campus USA program, designed to marshal the strengths of...

Jul 19, 2019
  • ECU News Services

Message to the ECU Community following Trump Campaign visit

We have received a great deal of feedback since the Trump Campaign visit on Wednesday (July 17). As you know and was stated several times, East Carolina University did not...

Jul 11, 2019
  • ECU News Services

Bonner named director of Renewable Ocean Energy Program

East Carolina University’s Integrated Coastal Programs and the Coastal Studies Institute have announced that George Bonner has been named director of the North Carolina Renewable Ocean Energy Program (NCROEP). The...

Jul 03, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU to host 24th annual summer guitar festival

Classical guitar performers – including a record number of duos – from around the world will converge in the A.J. Fletcher Music Center at East Carolina University for the 24th...

Jul 01, 2019
  • ECU News Services

Majority of Americans happy, says new ECU survey

A U.S. citizen’s unalienable right to pursue happiness proves true in the results of a new nationwide study by East Carolina University’s Center for Survey Research. Researchers looked at several...