Biomedical physicist honored with lifetime achievement award
For 27 years, Dr. Yong-Qing Li, an East Carolina University professor of physics in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences, has shared his passion for research in the...
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Match Day 2026
Medical students across the country learned Friday where they will spend the next several years completing their residencies, the postgraduate training program for recent medical school graduates to gain specialized...
A legacy, a wedding and a promise for future Pirate nurses
The brother and bride-to-be of a Pirate nurse who died in an attempted life-saving air ambulance crash four decades ago are using their union to raise scholarship funds for East...
Alumnus plans for students’ future hands-on experience
Walter Fields ’71 believes his professional success as an urban planner was strengthened by his willingness to dig in and understand all parts of the process for a development or...
Board of Trustees honors Womack, acknowledges student achievements
The East Carolina University Board of Trustees honored Vern Davenport and David Womack with the Trustees Award for Distinction during its first meeting of 2026. The Trustees Award for Distinction...
Pirate Nation to celebrate milestone day of giving
Since 2017, Pirate Nation Gives has raised more than $50 million for East Carolina University initiatives. On March 4, supporters can cap that decade of success by participating in the...
Donor support takes ECU business students from Greenville to Wall Street
The opening bell rang, and cheers erupted. East Carolina University College of Business (COB) students experienced the New York Stock Exchange in person, on the trading floor; for many of...
Society inductees spark a bright future through planned gifts
What is the outcome and impact of a charitable planned gift in an estate plan? For East Carolina University Bea Chauncey Scholarship recipient Caroline Kuskowski, a planned gift created the...
Dr. Michael Warren leads March of Dimes’ plan of action against premature births
Is medical school the place for big-picture topics like population health and public policy? Opinions differ, and many satisfied students say they did not get such training. Dr. Michael Warren...
Digital humanities projects foster student leadership
Seeing historic locations with one’s own eyes, hearing sounds of a bustling city, feeling cobblestone walkways underfoot, and smelling and tasting delicacies from a foreign culture are experiences that last...