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...
Scholarships Archives
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...
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...
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,...