Scholarships Archives

Apr 01, 2020
  • Grady Dillon

Student: McKenzie Swindle

Weather has always fascinated East Carolina University student Mckenzie Swindle. Now, she is paving her way to a future career in meteorology. “Before moving to North Carolina, I lived in...

Mar 10, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

SUPPORTING STUDENT VETERANS

COURAGE AND SACRIFICE Memorial Walk brick paver dedication ceremony remembers heroes who served Donald Ray Taylor joined the Navy in 1952, bound for basic training in San Diego before being...

Feb 26, 2020
  • Matt Smith

SOUNDS OF RESEARCH

The click-clack-tap of a keyboard’s plastic keys fills the room in East Carolina University’s Auditory Prosthesis Lab. While the average person takes a keyboard’s sound for granted, Ning Zhou, an...

Rick Steves talks with students in the Bate Building. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Feb 21, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

TRANSFORMATIONAL TRAVEL

Hundreds of people braved snowy weather Thursday night to hear expert Rick Steves’ talk about a lifetime of travel — about 120 days every year — with a 9-by-22-by-14-inch carry-on...

Feb 06, 2020
  • Jules Norwood

A WAY FORWARD

Interim Chancellor Ron Mitchelson presented his first State of the University address to the East Carolina University community Wednesday in Wright Auditorium, highlighting successes and challenges, and thanking faculty and...

Feb 04, 2020
  • Matt Smith

HOME SWEET HOME

East Carolina University invites the public to one of Greenville’s iconic locations during an open house event on Thursday, Feb. 6, from 4:30-6 p.m. at 209 E. Fifth Street in...

Jan 31, 2020
  • ECU News Services

‘This program is such a blessing.’ Students express gratitude for Golden LEAF scholarships

Robynique Willis-Brown is determined not to be a statistic. Growing up in the foster system, Willis-Brown was surrounded by many uncertainties. Whether she could go to college was just one...

Dec 18, 2019
  • Erin Ward

ABOVE AND BEYOND

In his 35 years at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine, Dr. James Peden has helped patients in clinics, supervised residents, served as an attending on medical services and...

Dec 11, 2019
  • Kristen Martin

‘HOMEGROWING TALENT’

East Carolina University celebrated decades of partnerships and a program rebrand at an annual College of Education (COE) advisory board meeting on Dec. 4. Partnership Teach was officially unveiled as...

Dec 10, 2019
  • Erin Ward

BEACON SCHOLARS

Beacon Scholars profile: • Represent 76 counties in N.C. • 3.62 unweighted GPA, 4.05 weighted GPA • Average ACT is 25, Average SAT is 1240 What began a year ago...