News Archives

Aug 06, 2024
  • Lacey L. Gray

Gueye receives Fulbright to teach, research the politics of feminism, wifehood

East Carolina University’s Dr. Marame Gueye has won a competitive Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award for the 2024-25 academic year. She will teach and conduct research at the Université Cheikh...

Aug 05, 2024
  • Ken Buday

ECU center aims to connect community, business with technology

Soon, Noah Gwynn will no longer have to fish for information as farm manager for Classic Seafood Group. He’ll have it right at his fingertips. Gwynn is working with Dr....

Aug 02, 2024
  • Steven Grandy

Board of Trustees elects officers for 2024-25

The East Carolina University Board of Trustees held its summer meeting at the Coastal Studies Institute on the ECU Outer Banks Campus in Wanchese Aug. 1. In the one-day meeting,...

Aug 02, 2024
  • Doug Boyd

ECU, Greenville host Little League Softball World Series

For twins Anna and Brooke Rose, the road to Greenville and the Little League Softball World Series isn’t very far. That’s because they live just a few miles away. Brooke...

Aug 01, 2024
  • Lacey L. Gray

McRae awarded prestigious grant to continue research on elusive eastern black rail

Dr. Susan McRae, a teaching professor in East Carolina University’s Department of Biology, has won the Animal Welfare Institute’s prestigious Christine Stevens Wildlife Award. The award provides individual grants of...

Jul 31, 2024
  • Ken Buday

Faculty: Dr. Holly Fales

Even on the hottest of days, Dr. Holly Fales tends to her family garden. “There’s just something about starting really small — a small plant or a seed — and...

Jul 31, 2024
  • ECU News Services

Meet the orientation assistants who welcomed ECU class of 2028

During this summer’s new student orientation sessions, East Carolina University’s incoming freshmen were greeted by 27 welcoming faces that offered the new students guidance as they familiarized themselves with campus....

ECU students, left to right, Fabiana De La Rosa, Celina Olesco and Nicole Matos talk with prospective students at James Sprunt Community College during ECU’s Let’s Connect Duplin County event. (Photo by Rich Klindworth)
Jul 24, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel
  • Crystal Baity
  • Ken Buday
  • Kristen Martin
  • Steven Grandy

Students can take alternate paths to an ECU degree

(Video by Rich Klindworth) Earning a bachelor’s degree doesn’t always follow a traditional course from graduating high school to starting as a freshman on campus. Some students take an alternate...

Jul 21, 2024
  • Michael Rudd

Alumni gifts provide students opportunities to visit Silicon Valley companies

In the fall of 2023, student leaders in the College of Business joined the Arthur School’s Immersive MBA students on a trip to New York to learn more about the...

Emma Dillon, a fashion merchandising and consumer studies major, has worked with the Professionally Purple Closet on campus. (Photos by Rhett Butler)
Jul 19, 2024
  • Crystal Baity

Student: Emma Dillon

East Carolina University senior Emma Dillon has wanted to work in the fashion industry since she was younger. She took apparel classes in high school after being inspired by a...