News Archives

Apr 01, 2019
  • Kristin Zachary

Pirates Aboard!
Mar 28, 2019
  • Jamie Smith

ARCTIC ADVENTURE

Snow sensors developed by students and faculty at East Carolina University to aid in climate change research will soon make their way to the Arctic with Dr. Dan Dickerson. Dickerson,...

ECU’s Musical Empowerment group is one of the six chapters in the country. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Mar 26, 2019
  • Bri Deel

MAKING MUSIC ACCESSIBLE

East Carolina University students are making music accessible to elementary, middle and high school students in Greenville through a new program called Musical Empowerment. The ECU chapter is one of...

Dr. Andrew Stuart holds the SpeechEasy, a device he and two other ECU faculty members invented that helps people who stutter to speak normally. Stuart was recently elected as an inaugural member of the National Academy of Inventor’s Senior Member class.
Mar 22, 2019
  • Natalie Sayewich

INVENTOR HONOR

An ECU faculty member whose work has allowed thousands the ability to communicate normally was recently elected to the inaugural class of the National Academy of Inventors Senior Members. Dr....

Associate Dean of Students Lauren Thorn, left, and Carter Morsell, donor relations coordinator for the Division of Student Affairs Office of Development, talks to students at the Pirate Nation Gives table outside of the Main Campus Student Center on Wednesday.
Mar 21, 2019
  • ECU News Services

PIRATE NATION GIVES

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...

Dancers will start the show outside by dancing on seven tons of dirt.
Mar 19, 2019
  • Bri Deel

SPRING DANCE 2019

Seven tons of dirt and dancers will usher in East Carolina University’s Spring Dance 2019. Guests will be greeted with a one-of-a-kind performance at the entrance to McGinnis Theatre beginning...

Mar 18, 2019
  • ECU News Services

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...

Shayna Mooney reacts after learning she will complete her internal medicine residency at Carlilion Clinic-Virginia Tech School of Medicine.
Mar 15, 2019
  • Rob Spahr

MATCH DAY 2019

Fourth-year medical students gathered in the auditorium of ECU’s Brody School of Medicine on Friday – surrounded by their peers, professors and family members – to open letters telling them...

Donterreo Culp, an ECU senior majoring in dance performance, works with high school students in Messick Theatre.
Mar 14, 2019
  • Crystal Baity

FULL ACCESS

A day created especially for theater arts and dance drew about 130 students from across Pitt County to East Carolina University on March 8. ECU faculty, staff, students and alumni...

East Carolina University faculty and administrators toured eastern North Carolina over two days as part of the second annual Purple and Golden Bus Tour. The tour is designed to introduce faculty researchers to the culture, geography, heritage, economy and assets of eastern North Carolina. (Photos by Matt Smith)
Mar 14, 2019
  • Matt Smith

COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS

East Carolina University’s second annual Purple and Golden Bus Tour rolled out of Greenville on March 4, making 10 stops while traveling 423 miles over two days in eastern North...