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ECU students, left to right, Fabiana De La Rosa, Celina Olesco and Nicole Matos talk with prospective students at James Sprunt Community College during ECU’s Let’s Connect Duplin County event. (Photo by Rich Klindworth)
Jul 24, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel
  • Crystal Baity
  • Ken Buday
  • Kristen Martin
  • Steven Grandy

Students can take alternate paths to an ECU degree

(Video by Rich Klindworth) Earning a bachelor’s degree doesn’t always follow a traditional course from graduating high school to starting as a freshman on campus. Some students take an alternate...

Jul 21, 2024
  • Michael Rudd

Alumni gifts provide students opportunities to visit Silicon Valley companies

In the fall of 2023, student leaders in the College of Business joined the Arthur School’s Immersive MBA students on a trip to New York to learn more about the...

Emma Dillon, a fashion merchandising and consumer studies major, has worked with the Professionally Purple Closet on campus. (Photos by Rhett Butler)
Jul 19, 2024
  • Crystal Baity

Student: Emma Dillon

East Carolina University senior Emma Dillon has wanted to work in the fashion industry since she was younger. She took apparel classes in high school after being inspired by a...

Summer Innovation Academy students participated in an entrepreneurship lifecycle exercise that featured the assistance of College of Business faculty and staff. Pictured, left to right, Micah Sam (COB), and students Katelynn Horton, Morgan Taylor and Amari Leach. (Photo by Steven Mantilla)
Jul 18, 2024
  • Michael Rudd

Annual Summer Innovation Academy introduces high school students to possibilities

In July of 2018, Jordan Anderson stepped on East Carolina University’s campus as a rising high school junior to attend the Miller School of Entrepreneurship’s inaugural Summer Innovation Academy, a...

Jul 17, 2024
  • Ronnie Woodward

From crisis to celebration of a healthy baby

After Molly Tripp returned home from ECU Health with her thriving and healthy baby, she was an advocate as much as anyone for the East Carolina University active moms studies...

Jul 16, 2024
  • Emily Winslow

Ward, Barefoot focus on student health, safety and success

Anderson Ward and Ava Barefoot, East Carolina University’s newly elected Student Government Association president and vice president, are gearing up for a transformative term focusing on mental health, campus safety...

East Carolina University and Peru Special Olympics delegates prep for a 5K event in Greenville on Global Running Day on June 5. (Photos by Steven Mantilla)
Jul 11, 2024
  • Ronnie Woodward

Pirates, Peruvians build lasting connection

It was easy for Angel Castañeda Vargas, a student at Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (Peruvian University of Applied Sciences), to summarize how he felt on East Carolina University’s campus...

Jul 03, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

Faculty: Dr. Chandra Speight

Dr. Chandra Speight knew early that she was on a mission to make North Carolina better, but it took a few degrees and living a bit of life to find...

Doreen Sarfo, a registered nurse who works at ECU Health Medical Center in Greenville, moved from Ghana with her family to tackle the College of Nursing’s clinical nurse specialist program. (Photos by Steven Mantilla)
Jul 01, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

Student: Doreen Boateng Sarfo

When most people look for a new place to work, living near a teaching hospital with a strong relationship with a university’s nursing program isn’t usually at the top of...

Jun 28, 2024
  • Crystal Baity

High school students participate in summer art and design camp

East Carolina University’s first residential summer art and design camp tailored specifically for high school students attracted more than 50 students across a tri-state area June 16-21. Each had the...