News Release Archives

Jun 11, 2018
  • ECU News Services

ECU piano, guitar summer festivals welcome international performers

The inaugural East Carolina Piano Festival and the long-standing ECU Summer International Guitar Festival will bring acclaimed international performers to Greenville for public concerts in June and July. The East...

Jun 05, 2018
  • ECU News Services

ECU partners with community colleges to improve transfer access, success

East Carolina University and 14 community colleges in the surrounding region signed a co-admission agreement Tuesday that is designed to improve transfer student access and success through a collaborative degree...

Jun 02, 2018
  • ECU News Services

Gift enables Vidant Health, ECU to partner in creating senior faculty positions in hematology/oncology

ECU and Vidant Health are partnering to create two senior faculty positions in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at ECU’s Brody School of Medicine. The positions are being funded...

Jun 01, 2018
  • ECU News Services

ECU awards full academic scholarships to 20 NC high school students

Twenty high school seniors from across North Carolina have been selected for the prestigious EC Scholars program at East Carolina University. The recipients are Marco Agostini, Jayda Bodine, Hannah Bolick,...

May 30, 2018
  • ECU News Services

ECU names interim vice chancellor for health sciences

ECU Chancellor Cecil Staton announced today that he has named an interim vice chancellor for the university’s Division of Health Sciences. Dr. Mark Stacy, dean of ECU’s Brody School of...

May 30, 2018
  • ECU News Services

ECU to establish School of Rural Public Health

East Carolina University has announced plans to establish a new School of Rural Public Health in August of 2020 after the plans were approved by the UNC System Board of...

May 17, 2018
  • ECU News Services

Remains of a possible 1619 Dutch privateer identified in Bermuda

East Carolina University archaeologists working in partnership with the National Museum of Bermuda (NMB) have announced that they may be one step closer to linking an unidentified shipwreck site to...

May 15, 2018
  • ECU News Services

North Carolina Literary Review accepting submissions, increasing honorarium

The North Carolina Literary Review is accepting submissions for the 2018 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize. Submissions are being accepted May 15 through July 1. Randall Kenan, professor in the...

May 09, 2018
  • ECU News Services

Fraternity closed by national organization

The Phi Kappa Tau national organization has announced the closure of the Gamma Eta chapter after an investigation conducted by the organization in collaboration with and supported by the university....

May 04, 2018
  • ECU News Services

ECU graduates 5,479 students, holds fireworks display

Fireworks flew and tassels turned on a beautiful spring night in Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium as 5,479 students graduated from East Carolina University on May 4. The fireworks capped off a new...