News Release Archives

Mar 28, 2019
  • ECU News Services

Physicist to discuss dark matter, dinosaurs as Voyages lecturer at ECU

Dr. Lisa Randall, Harvard University physicist, will present “Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs,” at 7 p.m. April 4 in Wright Auditorium at East Carolina University. Randall is the final presenter...

Mar 27, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU Student Media recognized with state, national awards

East Carolina University Student Media received 15 state awards at the annual North Carolina College Media Association (NCCMA) Conference held Feb. 23 at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro....

Mar 22, 2019
  • ECU News Services

Novelist Elaine Neil Orr to read at ECU

Elaine Neil Orr will read from her novel, “Swimming Between Worlds,” at 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 28 in East Carolina University’s Faulkner Gallery on the second floor of Joyner...

Mar 21, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU sets new record on third annual giving day

East Carolina University’s third annual Pirate Nation Gives fundraising day on March 20 raised more than $805,000 in 24 hours, surpassing last year’s amount of $500,000. The one-day, social-media-driven effort...

Mar 20, 2019
  • ECU News Services

Rae Senarighi’s TRANSCEND exhibit coming to ECU

East Carolina University will host Rae Senarighi’s TRANSCEND exhibit in the Main Campus Student Center (Dr. Jesse R. Peel LGBTQ Center) and the Health Sciences Campus Student Center, March 25-30....

Mar 19, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU professor helps NCDOT address ENC infrastructure issue

An East Carolina University construction management professor and a local construction company have teamed up in search of a solution to a problem facing the North Carolina Department of Transportation...

Mar 19, 2019
  • ECU News Services

Pirate Nation Gives returns to generate donations for ECU student success

East Carolina University will celebrate its third annual Pirate Nation Gives on Wednesday, March 20. This standalone day of giving encourages alumni, friends, faculty, staff, parents and students to make a donation to one of...

Mar 18, 2019
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ECU Chancellor Cecil P. Staton to step down

Dr. Cecil P. Staton, the 11th chancellor of East Carolina University, announced today that he will step down as chancellor effective May 3, 2019. Chancellor Staton will remain on as an advisor...

Mar 15, 2019
  • ECU News Services

NCLR calls for poetry submissions for Applewhite Prize

The North Carolina Literary Review (NCLR) is now accepting submissions for the 2019 Applewhite Poetry Prize competition. The first-place winner will receive $250, and the poem will be published in...

Mar 15, 2019
  • ECU News Services

Primary care leads the way (again) at ECU’s physician residency match event

A mother of five and a former professional football player were among the fourth-year medical students gathered in the auditorium of ECU’s Brody School of Medicine on Friday to learn...