Students Archives

Mar 17, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

TOP PROGRAMS

East Carolina University graduate programs in allied health sciences, education, fine arts, medicine, nursing and public administration have been recognized among the nation’s best by U.S. News & World Report....

Mar 13, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

MAKING A DIFFERENCE

Gusty winds blew across the Making Pitt Fit Community Garden off County Home Road in Greenville as East Carolina University students Tasha Spencer and Garrett Hope prepped planting beds for...

Mar 11, 2020
  • ECU News Services

ECU Alumni Association names 2020 Robert H. Wright Alumni Leadership Award recipients

The East Carolina University Alumni Association selected five student recipients of the 2020 Robert H. Wright Alumni Leadership Award. The award recognizes students’ academic achievement as well as commitment to...

Mar 10, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

SUPPORTING STUDENT VETERANS

COURAGE AND SACRIFICE Memorial Walk brick paver dedication ceremony remembers heroes who served Donald Ray Taylor joined the Navy in 1952, bound for basic training in San Diego before being...

Mar 10, 2020
  • ECU News Services

Students seek to improve sustainability through composting

Improving Greenville’s environmental sustainability through compost is the goal for several East Carolina University students. Olivia Sessoms, Loring Penna-Welch, Jacob Marshall and Hayden Murphy are four Honors College students who...

Mar 09, 2020
  • Janiya Winchester

Student: Ongeri Ayako

Ongeri Joseph Ayako, second-year medical student at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine, believes in balance in his approach to becoming a doctor and his family life. Ayako, originally...

Mar 09, 2020
  • ECU News Services

College of Health and Human Performance recognizes philanthropy, service

Every year, generous donors support scholarships, travel for students, academic programs and community outreach for East Carolina University’s College of Health and Human Performance (HHP). This year, HHP recognized philanthropy...

Mar 05, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

CORE VALUES

Building Capacity for Underserved Areas Twenty-one students who completed the Public Fellows Internship program, funded by the State Employees’ Credit Union Foundation, were honored for their service in rural communities...

Mar 04, 2020
  • Doug Boyd

BARRIERS TO PARTICIPATION

Sports Illustrated has called Greenville a “Sportstown USA,” and while opportunities abound for youth and adults to play and learn, those doors aren’t equally open to everyone. That’s what East...

Mar 03, 2020
  • Grady Dillon

JUST DANCE

East Carolina University’s Mary Ellen Hunter founded Piratethon, a student-led dance marathon fundraiser, to help children just like her. Hunter, a senior from Raleigh, had a heart defect and was...