Philanthropy Archives

Feb 17, 2023
  • Spaine Stephens

ECU dental school kicks off Jones County school-based oral health program

The East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine kicked off a new program earlier this month that will provided oral health care and dental hygiene education to schoolchildren in Jones...

East Carolina University Chancellor Philip Rogers joins Gov. Roy Cooper, and additional state and campus leaders, to announce a $3.2 million United Health Foundation grant.
Feb 14, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

GRANT EXPANDS NC-STeP

Children and adolescents with mental health care needs will benefit from a $3.2 million partnership between East Carolina University and the United Health Foundation. The grant will expand the North...

Feb 09, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

COMMITMENT TO SERVICE

The Service League of Greenville has spent 83 years quietly doing big things for the community. A scholarship endowment, established in 2018 through the ECU Medical and Health Sciences Foundation,...

Representatives from ECU, TEDI BEAR Children’s Advocacy Center and the Mount Olive community celebrate the Jan. 27 opening of the Mount Olive Children’s Advocacy Center.
Feb 03, 2023
  • Spaine Stephens

CHILDREN’S ADVOCACY

East Carolina University officially opened its Mount Olive Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC) last week during a ribbon-cutting ceremony, ushering in a much-needed resource for addressing child abuse cases in underresourced...

Feb 02, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

FAMILY MEDICINE GIANT

A plaque on the newly named James G. “Jim” Jones Chair’s Suite in East Carolina University’s Department of Family Medicine honors Jones and an immense list of titles for which...

Feb 02, 2023
  • ECU Advancement

Pirate dental student earns inaugural Osborne scholarship

Alexis Lollis ’21, a first-year student at East Carolina University's School of Dental Medicine, has been chosen as the inaugural recipient of the Dr. Colin Osborne Jr. Scholarship. Named in...

Jan 31, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

ECU farm to clinic program boosts nutrition initiative

East Carolina University students are all in for experiential learning opportunities, especially when it comes to the farm to clinic program in the College of Allied Health Sciences’ Department of...

Jan 11, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Enthusiasm for ECU inspires planned gifts

Duane Grooms’ love and loyalty for his alma mater meet the call of the university’s first president, Robert H. Wright, who hoped for “every student ... to go out from...

East Carolina University alumni Sophia and Peter Ku have established an endowment to honor the kindness shown to them at ECU.
Jan 05, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

UNEXPECTED KINDNESS

Peter Ku ’68 describes his life as a series of miracles that brought him to the United States from Taiwan and eventually to East Carolina College where he found the...

Dec 21, 2022
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Privette meeting room a venue for exchanging ideas, positive interactions

Doug Privette ’72 came to East Carolina University in 1968 with a suitcase and a plan to focus exclusively on academics. He found friends and his life’s purpose in ECU’s...