News Archives

Apr 30, 2021
  • Ken Buday

Faculty: Dr. Mark Moss

Growing up in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, Dr. Mark Moss listened to the advice of his parents, who told him of the importance of education to his future. The associate professor...

Apr 27, 2021
  • Ken Buday

INSPIRING SUCCESS

When Jessie Drymon was an East Carolina University student, she tutored and learned at the Pirate Academic Success Center. Now that she is a registered nurse caring for organ transplant...

Apr 26, 2021
  • Natalie Sayewich
  • Rob Spahr

PIRATES VS. CANCER

The COVID-19 pandemic presented a host of challenges for the student organizers of the annual Pirates Vs. Cancer fundraiser this year, but they remained undaunted and still managed to raise...

Apr 23, 2021
  • ECU News Services

TRUSTEES TRANSITION

The East Carolina University Board of Trustees welcomed ECU Chancellor Dr. Philip Rogers to his first meeting of the full board and its committees Thursday and Friday. “I want to...

Apr 22, 2021
  • Kristen Martin

DREAM BIG

Many students at East Carolina University say that visiting campus solidified their decision to become a Pirate. Officials are working to introduce more students, at younger ages, to life as...

Apr 21, 2021
  • Jules Norwood

TITANS OF TEACHING

From a computer engineering professor making the intricacies of microprocessing accessible for his students to an English professor providing real-world experience for students while helping local nonprofits, East Carolina University...

Apr 15, 2021
  • Jamie Smith

2021 COMMENCEMENT

East Carolina University will host three in-person commencement ceremonies Friday, May 7 at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium to celebrate the spring Class of 2021 and the Class of 2020. University of North...

Apr 14, 2021
  • Lacey L. Gray

FUTURE CHANGE MAKERS

This spring, East Carolina University undergraduates taking a 4000-level research course in African and African American Studies (AAAS) are learning how their history and diverse, interdisciplinary research interests may help...

Apr 12, 2021
  • Crystal Baity

Student: Merdi Lutete

Maybe Merdi Lutete would be a newscaster. Or a tennis player. “I honestly was all over the place depending on which TV show I was watching at the time,” said...

Apr 12, 2021
  • Michael Rudd

WHEN EAST MEETS WEST

One of the Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge's main goals is to inspire and encourage winning entrepreneurial collaboration across East Carolina University. Consider that goal accomplished. Dr. George Schilling, a third-year physical...