News Archives

Nov 01, 2018
  • ECU News Services

ECU launches crowdfunding platform

East Carolina University launched an online crowdfunding platform Thursday to help Pirates across campus raise money for their ideas and passions. The first three projects on the platform, called ECU...

De’Mone’ Jordan
Oct 31, 2018
  • Bri Deel

Student: De’Mone’ Jordan

De'Mone’ Jordan has spent the last year creating and starting a program for elementary school girls that attend Building Hope Community Life Center. Jordan graduated with her bachelor’s degree in social work...

Dr. Ford Grant, faculty director of the School of Dental Medicine’s community service learning center in Ahoskie, talks with patient Amber Doering. The dental school has received national recognition for its innovative approach to dental education. (Photos by Rhett Butler)
Oct 29, 2018
  • Spaine Stephens

ACCESS SUCCESS

The national organization representing all U.S. and Canadian dental schools announced last week that a 2019 award for innovation will go to the School of Dental Medicine at East Carolina...

Angus Konstam, author, historian and pirate expert, spoke to an audience in ECU’s Wright Auditorium on Oct. 25 for the kick-off event in the 2018-19 Voyages of Discovery Series. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Oct 29, 2018
  • Lacey L. Gray

FACT OR FICTION

On Oct. 25, Angus Konstam, historian and pirate expert, led an audience of Greenville community members and East Carolina University faculty, staff and students through a brief history of the...

Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge student Robert Ola
Oct 26, 2018
  • Michael Rudd

THIRTEEN TEAMS ADVANCE

The second Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge, the signature pitch competition of ECU and the College of Business’ Miller School of Entrepreneurship (MSOE), wrapped up its first round Tuesday, Oct. 23. Thirteen...

Oct 25, 2018
  • ECU News Services

ECU Athletics Director search committee named

East Carolina University Chancellor Cecil P. Staton, with the support of the ECU Board of Trustees, has named a 13-member search committee to recommend candidates to be considered for appointment...

ECU's Outer Banks Campus
Oct 24, 2018
  • Jules Norwood

COASTAL FOCUS

East Carolina University has renewed its commitment to coastal science by creating a new academic unit called Integrated Coastal Programs, which encompasses the Department of Coastal Studies and the Coastal...

Oct 23, 2018
  • Kristin Zachary

Homecoming 2018

East Carolina University and Vidant Medical Center have been selected for a national trauma research network for the U.S. Department of Defense. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Oct 19, 2018
  • ECU News Services

TRAUMA TRIALS

East Carolina University and Vidant Medical Center have been selected for a national trauma research network for the U.S. Department of Defense. Linking Investigations in Trauma & Emergency Services (LITES)...

Ron Clements ’06 and his wife, Patti, in front of their RV.
Oct 18, 2018
  • Erin Ward

HOME RUN

During a summer baseball game between the Colorado Rockies and the Arizona Diamondbacks, a foster kid sat in the upper deck of Coors Field enjoying his first ever Major League...