Philanthropy Archives

Nov 18, 2022
  • Crystal Baity

Service members honored with engraved pavers

More than 25 members of Victor Burke’s family stretching from New York to Florida along with his work family from East Carolina University’s student financial aid office came together today...

Nov 08, 2022
  • ECU Advancement

ECU School of Dental Medicine awarded Delta Dental Foundation grants

Thanks to two generous grants from the Delta Dental Foundation, the ECU School of Dental Medicine will continue its efforts of providing transformational care to rural and underserved communities across...

Oct 25, 2022
  • Benjamin Abel

Albernaz Lecture speakers encourage medical students to embrace storytelling

The noon-time crowd that filed into the East Carolina Heart Institute Oct. 24 was fairly typical, headed to a catered luncheon to listen to a speaker talk about something related...

Oct 25, 2022
  • ECU Advancement

ECU Foundation welcomes new board members

East Carolina University alumni Stephanie Bond, Vonta Leach and Misty L. Miller have joined the ECU Foundation’s board of directors. Their four-year terms started in July and will end in...

American flags line the ECU mall.
Oct 25, 2022
  • Hannah Eccleston

HONORING SERVICE

East Carolina University alumni Thomas Arthur and Paul Singleton will be inducted to the Distinguished Military Service Society (DMSS) in November. The ECU Alumni Association recognizes alumni and friends for...

Oct 17, 2022
  • ECU Advancement

ECU Alumni Association Board of Directors announces new members

The East Carolina University Alumni Association welcomed six new members to its board of directors. The newly elected members — Michael Crooke, Alexander Davis, Anthony Enoch, Joseph Gore III, Molly...

Oct 13, 2022
  • Crystal Baity

Gifts fund research, student scholarship at ECU

Shirley and Marvin Slaughter’s legacy of supporting East Carolina University students is continuing. Planned gifts by Shirley Slaughter, who died April 16, will provide $25,000 for the creation of the...

Sep 30, 2022
  • Hannah Eccleston

ECU Women’s Roundtable honors 2022 Incredible Women Award recipients

The East Carolina University Women’s Roundtable honored 10 award recipients at a luncheon on Sept. 23. Established in 2003, the Women’s Roundtable acknowledges the contributions of women to ECU’s legacy and...

Sep 27, 2022
  • Lacey L. Gray

Harriot College announces Whichard Distinguished Professor in the Humanities

East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences has announced that Dr. Aleia M. Brown is the college’s David Julian and Virginia Suther Whichard Distinguished Professor in the...

Markis’ Hamilton, an undergraduate student from Fayetteville State University, works in a hood in the East Carolina University Life Sciences and Biotechnology Building.
Sep 20, 2022
  • Benjamin Abel

HEALTH PROMOTION GRANT

An East Carolina University and Fayetteville State University partnership has secured more than $1.3 million in grant funding from the North Carolina GlaxoSmithKline Foundation to address regional public health needs....