RECRUITING STUDENTS TO STEM
East Carolina University is one of five North Carolina universities collaborating on a $3.4 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to better recruit and support students from underrepresented...
Scholarships Archives
Student: Calli Jon Massengill
Calli Jon Massengill, a special education major at East Carolina University, knew early she had a passion for helping others learn. “I have always known I wanted to teach and...
ANSWERING THE CALL
Holly Stegall spent most of her life living in rural Anson County, North Carolina. After matriculating through the local public school system from elementary school through high school, the Polkton native then...
PIONEERING SURGEON
For as long as she can remember, Hannah Woriax wanted to be a doctor and a scientist. Some of the Pembroke native’s earliest memories were scooting around her grandfather’s Robeson...
ECU alumnus, longtime physician establishes endowment
Dr. J. Mack Worthington ’64 has dedicated his career to educating and training the next generation of family medicine physicians. Before stepping down from full-time work in 2019, he served...
PRINCIPAL PIPELINE
East Carolina University has a pipeline that produces a different kind of commodity — future principals. The PIRATE Leadership Academy at ECU prepares proven teacher leaders to become assistant principals...
ENDOWMENT HONORS BROWN
A scholarship endowment established in honor of Dr. Sylvia Brown, dean of the East Carolina University’s College of Nursing, is already the largest in the college to date — and...
Computer science student receives national SMART scholarship
Like many children, Micah Seetoo played video games, but beyond mastering level 10, he became interested in how the games and the devices on which they were played worked. Now,...
Haley Williams
Haley Williams is not one to sit on the sidelines. Williams grew up in an athletic family, with both her father and grandfather coaching high school football. She played tennis...
Daniel Walker
In true Pirate style, Daniel Walker was born in the Outer Banks Hospital and raised in nearby Harbinger, North Carolina. Walker grew up riding waves on his Spider-Man bodyboard and...