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Four female students wearing matching school uniform green and orange polkadot dresses listen to a teacher at a high school during a dress rehearsal for East Carolina University’s production of “School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play.”
Sep 24, 2024
  • Alondra Martinez

Director Shaffer-Dickerson leads thought-provoking play at ECU

“School Girls” 7:30 p.m. nightly through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday McGinnis Theatre, Fifth Street, ECU Tickets are $10 for youth and ECU students, $15 for faculty/staff and senior citizens,...

Sep 17, 2024
  • Kim Tilghman

ECU undergrads build career confidence through the SECU Public Fellows Internship program

Over the summer, 20 East Carolina University undergraduates took part in the rewarding and impactful SECU Public Fellows Internship (PFI) program. The internship program places in-state undergraduate students with government...

Sep 16, 2024
  • Michael Rudd

New gift to provide ECU students with hands-on, real-world experiences

A new gift to the College of Business will allow students to gain firsthand experience managing a multi-strategy financial portfolio whose proceeds will pay for high-impact travel and other experiential...

Sep 12, 2024
  • Kristen Martin

ECU faculty spearhead global effort to address rural mental health and education

Counselor education faculty in the East Carolina University College of Education sought to improve rural education and mental health literacy through the creation of a partnership between the United States...

Sep 11, 2024
  • Spaine Stephens

Dental school county-based oral health care programs thrive

When Connie Burleson moved from Sanford, North Carolina, to Swan Quarter in coastal Hyde County, one of her favorite pastimes became driving the back roads and taking in the area’s...

Sep 10, 2024
  • Doug Boyd
  • Ken Buday

Eyes on the Skies

At age 4, Austin Mansfield ’17 watched from his Farmville home as Hurricane Floyd knocked down trees and flooded eastern North Carolina in 1999. “I was just so curious of...

Sep 06, 2024
  • Ronnie Woodward

Living Learning Communities foster forever bonds

Ballard Hall can be a place to learn about the healthy and friendly rivalry between the East Carolina University Air Force ROTC and Army ROTC programs. Cadets from both units...

Paige Day conducted research on summer rainfall at the Coastal Studies Institute on the ECU Outer Banks Campus. (Contributed photo)
Sep 04, 2024
  • Steven Grandy

Pirates make most of summer experiences

Many East Carolina University students spent their summers as interns, gaining real-world experience in their respective fields. These four Pirates played music, studied rainfall, wrote press releases and kept North...

Dr. Jack Pender poses for a photo in a lab in the Science and Technology Building. (ECU Photo by Rhett Butler)
Sep 03, 2024
  • Lacey L. Gray

Staff: Dr. Jack Pender

In any lab, Dr. Jack Pender is professional but easily approachable with a big smile. His role at East Carolina University blurs the lines between faculty and staff. He teaches...

Aug 30, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

Soccer success translates to nursing promise

When she joins the team at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center in Baltimore, East Carolina University graduate and nurse Rachael Wilsynski will have a lifetime of high-level experience with teamwork...