Service Archives

May 09, 2022
  • Lacey L. Gray

Three ECU faculty receive 2022 Harriot College Dean’s Early Career Award

The dean of East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences has named three faculty members as recipients of the prestigious 2022 Dean’s Early Career Award. Typically awarded...

Brody School of Medicine alumna Dr. Rasheeda Monroe was part of a team of Black female physicians who worked to address health inequities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
May 05, 2022
  • Rob Spahr

SISTER CIRCLE

Edrisa Horton was eager to volunteer at a COVID-19 vaccine event at Macedonia New Life Church in southeast Raleigh during the early days of vaccine distribution. She wanted to do...

Apr 29, 2022
  • Crystal Baity

Five receive Robert H. Wright Leadership Awards

Five graduating seniors have received the Robert H. Wright Leadership Award for excellence in service, leadership and academic achievements at East Carolina University. Thekra Hindi of Charlotte, Evan Martschenko of...

Chad Carwein, university sustainability manager, supervises while Julia Florack works with a bee hive frame.
Apr 22, 2022
  • Jules Norwood

DIG IT

East Carolina University and its student environmental organizations celebrated Earth Day with a full week of events, kicking off with a honey extraction demonstration and wrapping up with a farm...

ECU students Patrick Young, from left, and Logan Darr post in front of ECU's STEPP Program office.
Apr 19, 2022
  • Jules Norwood

A TAILORED STRATEGY

As students with learning disabilities transition from high school to college, East Carolina University’s STEPP Program (Supporting Transition and Education through Planning and Partnerships) helps ensure that they have the...

Apr 01, 2022
  • Crystal Baity

SELFLESS SERVICE

An unwavering commitment to helping others took center stage Thursday as more than 100 East Carolina University faculty, staff and students were honored at the Chancellor’s Awards for Service. The...

Mar 28, 2022
  • Jules Norwood

ALL HANDS

As East Carolina University marked its 115th year and celebrated the installation of Chancellor Philip Rogers last week, Pirate Nation rose to the occasion and pledged more than $8.4 million...

Mar 21, 2022
  • Natalie Sayewich

HEALTH CARE AFTER COVID

As most longtime eastern North Carolinians could tell you, sometimes the hardest part of a natural disaster is the cleanup. After a hurricane, for example, it often takes a while...

Mar 14, 2022
  • Crystal Baity
  • Kristen Martin

SERVING OTHERS

  EXPLORING CLIMATE CHANGE Ten Honors College students participated in a different type of spring break beach trip. As part of their honors seminar “From Barriers to Agency,” the students...

Mar 03, 2022
  • Spaine Stephens

SONRÍE MEANS SMILE

Elena Uzun sat transfixed by the developing conflict in Ukraine into the wee hours of Saturday, Feb. 26. But when dawn arrived, she headed to the East Carolina University School...