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Apr 20, 2026
  • Alondra Martinez

Student: Savannah Perry

Savannah Perry found her way to East Carolina University after realizing she needed a change. After beginning her college journey elsewhere, she chose to transfer closer to home and closer...

A group of seven people stands together at an indoor event in front of a blue ECU Miller School of Entrepreneurship backdrop. Four young men in suits stand in the center, smiling and holding a large ceremonial check for $20,000 made out to “Carolina Cleaning Boys,” dated April 15, 2026, recognizing them as winners of the Gene T. Aman Pirate Challenge. Three older adults—two men and one woman—stand alongside them, also smiling. The group is dressed in business attire, and the setting appears to be a formal awards or recognition ceremony
Apr 17, 2026
  • Rich Klindworth

Carolina Cleaning Boys clean up

A summertime job pressure washing homes in the North Carolina sun just might have become a hot career. East Carolina University business management and Honors College student Sam Dewar and...

Apr 16, 2026
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU honors leaders in research, creative activity and innovation

East Carolina University honored more than 60 scholars, researchers and innovators for their impactful work on April 9 during the Research and Scholarship Awards Ceremony. University leaders, faculty, staff and...

Apr 16, 2026
  • Lacey L. Gray

Biomedical physicist honored with lifetime achievement award

For 27 years, Dr. Yong-Qing Li, an East Carolina University professor of physics in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences, has shared his passion for research in the...

A man in a black jacket with a white shirt and green tie standing in the center of the photo shakes hands with a man standing to the right wearing a blue jacket and holding a purple folder.
Apr 16, 2026
  • Steven Grandy

Faculty excellence honored at annual teaching awards

East Carolina University faculty members who have made an impact in the classroom and beyond were celebrated at the 2025-26 University Teaching Awards ceremony on Monday in the Main Campus...

Large “ECU” letters stand in front of a modern glass and brick campus building, with purple flowers and landscaping in the foreground under a blue sky.
Apr 15, 2026
  • ECU News Services

“Scream” and “Dawson’s Creek” creator to deliver ECU’s spring commencement address

East Carolina University alumnus, Kevin Williamson ’87, the creative force behind many influential television series and movies, will deliver the keynote address during the spring commencement ceremony at 10 a.m....

Apr 10, 2026
  • Steven Grandy
  • Jules Norwood

A celebration of research

East Carolina University celebrated research and its impact as the Office of Research, Economic Development and Engagement, and the ECU Graduate School held their annual Research and Creative Achievement Week...

woman in a brown blouse leans on a table and smiles as she poses for a picture in front of a window
Apr 06, 2026
  • Ken Buday

Faculty: Suzanne Lea

On a quest to become an environmental lawyer, Dr. Suzanne Lea had a revelation. “It was more about arguing in and out of the regulations and not so much about...

Apr 02, 2026
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Halfway to MD, students don white coats for front-line patient care

On March 28, the class of 2028 at ECU’s Brody School of Medicine gathered in a university ballroom surrounded by family, friends and physician leaders at the school to be...

Apr 02, 2026
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Researchers deepen industrial, educational and community partnerships on annual bus tour

The high seas in a galleon or U.S. 17 in a motorcoach, a Pirate vessel fully loaded will turn heads. During spring break, it was important to East Carolina University...