Service Archives

A woman and a man in business attire stand before an office building smiling for the camera.
Jan 26, 2026
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Two medical school alumni take top careers to the Motor City’s health department

DETROIT — It is said of the East Carolina University Pirates’ football fanbase that it travels well. The same could be said of our best trained health and medical professionals....

Jan 16, 2026
  • Steven Grandy

New Immersive MBA cohort thrives during busy fall schedule

Experiential learning and networking highlighted a very busy fall semester for the third cohort of the Arthur Graduate School’s Immersive MBA pathway. Classes began in August and then the group...

Graphic reading “Save the Date: 3.4.26” promoting ECU’s 10th Pirate Nation Gives Day of Giving, with purple and gold branding.
Jan 12, 2026
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

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...

A man smiles in front of the ECU Cupola, surrounded by fall foliage.
Dec 13, 2025
  • Lacey L. Gray

Jesse Rodriguez – University Studies

Helping people is a challenging and rewarding path that East Carolina University senior Jesse Rodriguez has traveled for many years. Originally from Hammondsport, New York, Rodriguez is a nontraditional student...

A student stands outdoors on ECU’s campus with arms crossed, wearing a light-colored blazer over a dark top, smiling in front of a brick building and fall foliage. A graphic on the right reads “Pirate Profiles.”
Dec 12, 2025
  • Alondra Martinez

Student: Cooper Hilbert

East Carolina University senior Cooper Hilbert has spent his college career exploring how cities work and how they can work better. What began as simple curiosity grew into a passion...

A woman in a dark blazer pets a black dog on a leash.
Dec 09, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Animal partners prepare counseling students for challenging client work

Dr. Celeste Crawford, a clinical associate professor in East Carolina University’s Department of Addictions and Rehabilitation Studies and director of the Navigate Counseling Clinic, usually has a teaching assistant at...

A bearded middle-aged man, smiling, stands in his white coat and signature bow tie before a U.S. flag and, separately, crossed swords wall art.
Dec 02, 2025
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Upon retirement, a Navy captain charts a course expanding physician training in eastern North Carolina

For Dr. Jason Higginson, the appeal of military service was never about rank and ribbons. It was about purpose — the same principle that drives the mission of East Carolina...

Nov 26, 2025
  • Steven Grandy

Ideas Over Lunch forum explores possibilities

A black pebble graced the seat of every attendee at the Ideas Over Lunch Forum. While the small stones may have seemed out of place initially, their importance would soon...

Large cream-colored “ECU” letters stand in front of a modern glass and brick building on East Carolina University’s campus, surrounded by bright purple flowers and green landscaping under a sunny blue sky.
Nov 25, 2025
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Innovation Academy Tempts Researchers to Turn Out Real-World Solutions

On a chilly afternoon earlier this month, the Club Level at Dowdy-Ficklin Stadium looked less like a football venue and more like a chamber of commerce affair. Faculty filed in...

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...

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