Service Archives

Nov 04, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Healing After Helene: One Pirate therapist’s call to serve

After Hurricane Helene struck the mountains of western North Carolina, word of the destruction leaked slowly from the mountainsides and overwashed valleys. For one Pirate alum, a family rescue mission...

Group of people standing on field inside a large stadium with red and black seating. The Mercedez-Benz logo is visible and several individuals are wearing VIP passes.
Oct 30, 2025
  • Kristen Martin

Honors student leaders find inspiration in Atlanta

Laasya Chenna waded into shoulder-high greenery, her eyes searching for two targets: Johnson grass and ragweed. Once she spotted one of the invasive species, she carefully uprooted it and deposited...

Oct 20, 2025
  • Lacey L. Gray

Harriot College honors faculty excellence through professorships

This fall, East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences appointed three faculty members to prestigious professorships that represent a breadth of knowledge and excellence in teaching and...

Group of about 30 students seated in three rooms in Dowdy-Ficklen stadium purple seats.
Oct 20, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall
  • Kristen Martin

Maynard family gift strengthens College of Education scholarship program

A new investment in East Carolina University’s College of Education (COE) came with a clear directive – go educate [more] future teachers. The multi-million dollar commitment from the Maynard family...

Oct 08, 2025
  • Lacey L. Gray

Harriot College announces Whichard Distinguished Professor in the Humanities

Dr. Amy E. Wright of Saint Louis University will serve as the David Julian and Virginia Suther Whichard Distinguished Professor in the Humanities in East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College...

A rural downtown streetscape with older brick buildings, American flags lining the street, parked cars, and a grassy foreground.
Sep 23, 2025
  • Kim Tilghman

Internship program fuels student growth, community success

The start of the fall semester marked the conclusion of another impactful summer for East Carolina University’s SECU Public Fellows Internship (PFI) program. This year, 20 undergraduates were placed with...

Three members of a family sit in a row in a simulation lab in the dental school, gesturing as they discuss their dental professional journeys.
Sep 16, 2025
  • Spaine Stephens

Family ties enhance dental school experience for patients, students

Lucy Anna Sheaffer dons her personal protective equipment and sits down at her station in the East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine’s simulation lab. It is quiet, and the...

An East Carolina University student sits in a chair with a notepad and pen and is talking to another person whose back is to the camera.
Sep 15, 2025
  • Lacey L. Gray

Grant supports community mental health services, student training

East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences and Brody School of Medicine are joint recipients of a $1.3 million grant to fund critical mental and behavioral health...

Sep 09, 2025
  • Lacey L. Gray

Harriot College thanks donors, honors scholarship recipients at 10th annual celebration

East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences recognized students and thanked its generous donors at the college’s 10th annual scholarship celebration on Sept. 5 in the Main...

An Air Force cadet holds a flag as another cadet beside him looks at the flag.
Sep 04, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall
  • Ronnie Woodward

Scholarships expand ROTC recruiting to national landscape

It was normal for Makenna Pardee to feel out of her comfort zone, as she described, when she first experienced the rigors of Air Force ROTC as a freshman at...