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ECU experienced a successful fiscal year 2018-19, raising $52.3 million.
Jul 30, 2019
  • Erin Ward

FUNDRAISING SUCCESS

Between July 1, 2018, and June 30, 2019, East Carolina University alumni, friends, faculty and other supporters committed $52.3 million to the university. This successful fiscal year surpasses last year’s...

Jul 29, 2019
  • Janiya Winchester

FUTURE DOCTORS

While many of their friends enjoyed summer vacations, a group of students considering careers in health care got a dose of what the first year of medical school has to...

Jul 26, 2019
  • Jamie Smith

NEW CITIZENS

On Wednesday, July 24, East Carolina University’s Office of Global Affairs hosted a naturalization ceremony during which 39 people from 21 countries became new citizens of the United States. Two...

Jul 25, 2019
  • Crystal Baity

A LOOK BACK

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

WHAT WILL BEE

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 23, 2019
  • Spaine Stephens

Student: Brianna Chavis-Locklear

When she was a little girl growing up in the Robeson County community of Prospect, Brianna Chavis-Locklear’s older sister came home from a dental appointment with braces on her teeth....

Jul 19, 2019
  • Crystal Baity

NEVER GIVE UP

PERFORMANCES July 25 and 26 – 10 a.m., 2 p.m., 7 p.m. July 27 – 10 a.m., 2 p.m. All seats $12 with general admission seating in Black Box Theatre....

Jul 17, 2019
  • Grady Dillon

PIRATE READ

“The Nature Principle” by Richard Louv has been selected as the 2019 Pirate Read at East Carolina University. All incoming students are asked to read the book before the beginning...

Jul 16, 2019
  • Matt Smith

PACIFIC TRAVELER

Most oceanographers would rather find themselves studying sardines instead of being packed like one, but East Carolina University assistant professor Rebecca Asch squeezed into the research vessel Kilo Moana last...

ECU officials and representatives from the design and construction firms responsible for the Life Sciences and Biotechnology Building break ground on the $90 million project. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Jul 12, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ON BOARD

The East Carolina University Board of Trustees swore in five new members and elected officers during its regular meeting Friday morning. It also approved the sale of alcohol in athletic...