Students Archives

May 30, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU students lend a hand, learn about Puerto Rico during ABE trip

Cinya Brand turned her tassel and graduated from East Carolina University with a biology degree on May 3. The next day, she boarded a flight to Puerto Rico — not...

May 28, 2019
  • Jules Norwood

ECUWORKS

During the 2018-19 academic year, East Carolina University launched a pilot program aimed at reducing student debt. Campus Living’s ECUWorks program gives first-year students the opportunity to work on campus...

May 20, 2019
  • Lacey L. Gray

SERVING OUR COUNTRY

This May, three East Carolina University health psychology doctoral students were commissioned into the U.S. Air Force, bringing the total to four students commissioned from one program in the past...

May 20, 2019
  • ECU News Services

Miller School announces program targeting Health Sciences, other colleges

The College of Business and the Miller School of Entrepreneurship have launched the Ideation Champion program, which has a goal of enlisting faculty to help recruit students to participate in...

May 15, 2019
  • ECU News Services

Medical students partner with community organization to teach lifesaving techniques

Two future physicians at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine have partnered with Women for Women Pitt County to help equip local parents with the skills necessary to rescue...

ECU Baja team captain Evan Diener tests the buggy at the Blackjack Mx Off Road Park. (Contributed photos)
May 10, 2019
  • Jules Norwood

BAJA REBORN

Even in high school, Evan Diener was interested in building a Baja buggy. “I had seen this program at other colleges, and it was something I was really interested in,”...

Pirate Profile: Andrew Griffin
May 06, 2019
  • Bri Deel

Student: Andrew Griffin

One challenge is just not enough for East Carolina University senior Andrew Griffin. Griffin, who graduated May 3, earned a degree in information and computer technology with a concentration in...

May 04, 2019
  • Crystal Baity
  • Jules Norwood

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Actor Emily Procter turned the spotlight on more than 5,200 East Carolina University graduates on Friday. The ECU alumna and North Carolina native encouraged the students to persevere through challenges...

More than 4,100 students will graduate during spring commencement.
May 03, 2019
  • ECU News Services

TURN YOUR TASSELS

East Carolina University's graduating class of spring 2019 includes more than 4,100 students who will receive their degree during Friday's commencement ceremony. Among them are students with high aspirations, like...

May 03, 2019
  • Kristin Zachary

Graduate video profile: Juliana Lane

Screenwriters often use their own life experiences as inspiration — a method East Carolina University senior Juliana Lane, a film and video production major in the School of Art and Design, implemented...