Love in Pirate Nation
Pirates come to ECU for quality higher education, but some end up with a two-for-one deal. Discover how these five couples met their partner for life. The Volkans Name: Josh...
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Student: Alondra Torres
Alondra Torres’ journey to become a Spanish teacher has taken her from eastern North Carolina to Mexico and back home to East Carolina University. Torres was born in Williamston, about...
Making the Sale
Richard Twilley ’89 is sold on his belief in East Carolina University and the potential for the university to become a national leader in sales education. Through a $4.5 million...
Top Online Programs
East Carolina University’s online master’s degree programs in business, criminal justice, education and nursing are among the best in the nation in a new ranking by U.S. News & World...
STEADFAST, SELFLESS DEDICATION
Hardee recognized for 55 years of service Lou Anna Hardee has worked for every East Carolina University chancellor since Leo Jenkins and seven deans in the College of Education, where...
Faculty: Mostafa Namian
The large book with small print totals 718 pages of complex safety regulations that cover all kinds of scenarios. “Obviously I don’t know all of it, and even if I...
Cameroon Outreach
In early 2023, Jean-Emile Nguepi, the executive vice president and chief academic officer of the Institut Universitaire des Grandes Écoles des Tropiques (IUGET), a bilingual, English and French, higher education...
Zakaib turned to medicine during pandemic
Mohsen Zakaib’s path to service through medicine became clear during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Service during the pandemic forced him into new opportunities he says he wouldn’t have...
Ulffers aims to serve people of eastern North Carolina
Abby Ulffers ’23 is a Brinkley-Lane Scholar and earned a Bachelor of Science in public health. She aims to “grow into a physician who has a platform to serve the...
Castañeda fulfilling a long-time dream with medical school
The idea of becoming a physician was planted in Eduardo Castañeda at 7 years old through interaction with his mother’s cardiologist. He took it upon himself to show Castañeda around...