Service Archives

East Carolina University Chancellor Philip Rogers congratulates award winners and nominees at the conclusion of the ECU Chancellor’s Awards for Service.
Mar 30, 2023
  • Ken Buday

COMMITMENT TO SERVICE

Those recognized Tuesday night during the Chancellor’s Horizon Awards for Service at East Carolina University share a common bond — a commitment to help others. The event in the Main...

Mar 29, 2023
  • Lacey L. Gray

Mentoring fellow aims to support ECU faculty

Jennifer Sisk, East Carolina University senior teaching instructor of English for the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences, is making a positive difference for faculty, now and in the...

East Carolina University staff and students prepare for Pirate Nation Gives activities at the Health Sciences Campus Student Center.
Mar 24, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

GIVING SUCCESS

Donations came from campus and across oceans as more than 2,300 Pirates answered the call to support East Carolina University during Pirate Nation Gives. The seventh annual day of giving on...

Mar 22, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

ECU medical students establish ‘doula-like’ volunteer program

Getting through medical school can be tough — long hours, books and tests, and more books. However, between classes and all-nighters, two students from the East Carolina University Brody School...

East Carolina University College of Health and Human Performance Director of Outreach Mack Craven, right, helps a student write a thank you letter to a gift donor during last year's Pirate Nation Gives. The annual day of giving returns for the seventh year this Wednesday.
Mar 20, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

PIRATE NATION GIVES

No matter who they are, where they are or how much they give, East Carolina University is calling for all hands on deck in support of Pirate Nation Gives. ECU...

East Carolina University students helped register voters in partnership with the League for Women Voters and worked with World Relief and the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina Main Distribution Center in Raleigh during an alternative break experience. The trip was organized by Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement Senior Assistant Director Alex Dennis. (Contributed photos)
Mar 15, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

ALTERNATIVE BREAK EXPERIENCE

Sarah Elliott, Claire Mack and Tete Narh-Mensah spent last week at the coast, not an uncommon destination for East Carolina University students on spring break. The difference was their objective...

The East Carolina University College of Nursing’s Courtney Caiola, Becky Bagley, and John Smoot played a pivotal role in helping a nursing student care for her newly adopted child.
Mar 02, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

DONATION OF LOVE

Sometimes it takes a village. And a caravan. And complete strangers. Julianne Szymanski has been a labor and delivery nurse for a decade and a half. She has had a...

East Carolina University students volunteered at a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending human trafficking during Mystery Service on Saturday.
Mar 02, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

SERVING OTHERS

The intrigue of not knowing where you’re going but making a difference when you get there is enticing East Carolina University students to volunteer for Mystery Service Saturdays. Spots fill...

Feb 27, 2023
  • Jules Norwood

Bike Repair Clinic offers tuneups, inspections

In partnership with East Carolina University Parking and Transportation, ECU Sustainability has resumed operation of its weekly Bike Repair Clinic, offered Wednesdays from 2-6 p.m. outside the Main Campus Student...

Feb 17, 2023
  • Spaine Stephens

ECU dental school kicks off Jones County school-based oral health program

The East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine kicked off a new program earlier this month that will provided oral health care and dental hygiene education to schoolchildren in Jones...