Scholarships Archives

Oct 02, 2023
  • Michael Rudd

ECU College of Business celebrates record-breaking financial support

Almost 160 College of Business (COB) students, faculty and donors celebrated a record-breaking $435,000 in scholarships at the college’s annual scholarship ceremony Sept. 27. To kickstart the event, Interim COB...

East Carolina University State Employees’ Credit Union Scholars share their appreciation with SECU Foundation representatives at the inaugural SECU People Helping People Scholars Luncheon.
Sep 28, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

FOUNDATIONAL SUPPORT

Since 2005, the State Employees’ Credit Union (SECU) Foundation has invested more than $7 million in the success of East Carolina University students. The organization’s partnership with ECU was celebrated...

Sep 19, 2023
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU’s Harriot College celebrates student scholarship recipients, thanks donors

East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences celebrated students and thanked its generous donors at the college’s eighth annual scholarship luncheon on Sept. 15 in the Main...

A large group of researchers work at the Abel Beth Maacah excavation site in Israel during the summer. The team was joined by East Carolina University graduate student Madie Elsner who conducted research for her thesis project at the site
Sep 12, 2023
  • Lacey L. Gray

TRANSFORMATIVE INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH

This summer, East Carolina University graduate student Madison “Madie” Elsner participated in unique, transformative fieldwork at Tel Abel Beth Maacah, Israel, near the border of Lebanon. Through the three-week, hands-on excavation, Elsner...

Martina Van Etten, a STEM Summer Immersion Program students from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, spent the summer at East Carolina University studying sablefish.
Aug 30, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

RESEARCH IMMERSION

This summer, Martina Van Etten has learned about sablefish, a deep-water species native to the eastern Pacific Ocean, through an internship at East Carolina University. A junior biology major at...

East Carolina University Health Education and Promotion professor Dr. Jo Anne Balanay and Fayetteville State University student KiHyira Jones look at a wet bulb globe temperature heat stress monitor positioned in a parking lot outside the Belk Building. They studied heat stress factors this summer.
Aug 30, 2023
  • Ronnie Woodward

SUMMER SAFETY

KiHyira Jones arrived at East Carolina University from Fayetteville State University in early June completely unfamiliar with a heat stress monitor that measures wet bulb globe temperature index. In just...

Dr. Michael Brewer and Hannah Pankey examine data pertaining to spider venom protein sequences. Brewer is leading Pankey in the analysis as part of the GlaxoSmithKline Foundation funding for the ECU STEM Summer Immersion program.
Aug 30, 2023
  • Lacey L. Gray

NOT ALL SPIDERS

The ancestors of all spiders were venomous, but there are two groups of spiders today — one in the United States — that are no longer toxic. East Carolina University’s...

Provost Dr. Robin Coger, center, discusses research and graduate school with UNC Pembroke junior Martina Van Etten, left, and her mentor Dr. Kat Dale, ECU post doctoral research scholar.
Aug 30, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

BUILDING RESEARCH CONNECTIONS

Twelve students found their footing in research and scientific discovery and learned more about pathways to graduate studies at East Carolina University during the STEM Summer Immersion Program. The program,...

Aug 24, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Brinkley-Lane Scholars program commences with donor honors

The new school year also marked the beginning of a new era in the East Carolina University Honors College as Dean Dr. Todd Fraley introduced the newest class of Brinkley-Lane...

Pirate Nation has raised $503.7 million and counting in the Pursue Gold campaign.
Aug 09, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

PAINT THIS ONE PURPLE

East Carolina University is painting the Pursue Gold campaign purple as gifts supporting the Jeff Charles Scholarship fund have taken the comprehensive campaign over its $500 million goal. Pirate Nation...