Philanthropy Archives

A nearly bald man with a white mustache and goatee, wearing a colorful scarf and black suit jacket, gestures with his hands while sitting to the left of a small table with a gold lamp. A woman with black, curly hair wearing a black dress with a colored streak pattern, sits to the right and holds a microphone with a folder in her lap.
Nov 18, 2024
  • Lacey L. Gray

Trailblazing tales: An evening with actor, director and literacy advocate LeVar Burton

The atmosphere was palpable as an audience of nearly 900 community members, students, faculty and staff enthusiastically welcomed — with a standing ovation — actor, director and literacy advocate LeVar...

Nov 12, 2024
  • Michael Rudd

Miller School’s climb in national rankings continue

Six years ago, the Miller School of Entrepreneurship at East Carolina University cracked the Princeton Review® and Entrepreneur® magazine’s Top 50 undergraduate entrepreneurship programs for the first time at 47....

Fielding Miller hugs Helen Aman standing next to a sign.
Oct 23, 2024
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Transformational investment elevates Pirate Challenge

East Carolina University’s Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge has a new name and an investment that will boost prize money and the student experience for the university’s signature pitch competition, which kicked...

Oct 16, 2024
  • Lacey L. Gray

Harriot College thanks donors, honors student scholarship recipients at annual celebration

East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences celebrated students and thanked its generous donors at the college’s ninth annual scholarship celebration on Oct. 11 in the Main...

Kim Briley and six of her family members smile and pose with her framed Order of the Long Leaf Pine award outside the Brody Medical Sciences Building.
Oct 15, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda

ECU Order of the Long Leaf Pine award recipients

Retired East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine researcher Kimberly Briley and ECU audiology program alumnus Dr. Johnnie Sexton received the Order of the Long Leaf Pine in September. The...

Kim Briley and six of her family members smile and pose with her framed Order of the Long Leaf Pine award outside the Brody Medical Sciences Building.
Oct 15, 2024
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda

ECU medical school researcher named to Order of the Long Leaf Pine

Kimberly Briley spent 35 years serving the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University — and has never been able to see herself anywhere else. Briley, who retired in...

A man in a dark suit and dark rimmed glasses holds a framed certificate alongside a woman in a purple dress. In the background the ocean is visible.
Oct 15, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

Pirate audiologist honored with Order of the Long Leaf Pine

Dr. Johnnie Sexton, an alumnus of East Carolina University’s audiology program, was recently honored with the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, one of the highest honors the state of...

Senior Grace Scott smiles while standing in front of the Jenkins Fine Arts Center.
Oct 01, 2024
  • Crystal Baity

Student: Grace Scott

East Carolina University senior Grace Scott has been surrounded by art from her earliest memories, so choosing a creative career path came naturally. Both of Scott’s parents graduated with fine...

: A man wearing a dark suit is sitting at a table holding up his hands while speaking to others seated around the table.
Sep 27, 2024
  • ECU News Services

Board of Trustees approves Isley Indoor Performance Center

A long-awaited project is one step closer to becoming a reality as the East Carolina University Board of Trustees approved the construction of the Isley Indoor Performance Center as part...

Sep 23, 2024
  • Kristen Martin

College of Education celebrates scholarship recipients, donors

The East Carolina University College of Education celebrated students and donors during the annual scholarship recipient and donor recognition ceremony on Sept. 6. More than $800,000 in scholarship funding was...