ECU marks Pollution Prevention Week
East Carolina University is marking Pollution Prevention Week with activities while highlighting efforts on campus as well as with partners off campus to save energy and reduce costs. ECU Sustainability...
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New gift to provide ECU students with hands-on, real-world experiences
A new gift to the College of Business will allow students to gain firsthand experience managing a multi-strategy financial portfolio whose proceeds will pay for high-impact travel and other experiential...
Rising seniors help launch Blacksail Fund
In businesses worldwide, teams of dedicated people are hunkered down in boardrooms, cubicles and huddle spaces, working on presentations, pitch decks and proposals that will sway customers to buy their...
ECU professor attends leadership symposium, forges bonds between ECU ROTC, criminal justice
Dr. Heidi Bonner, East Carolina University professor and chair of the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, had the unique opportunity to participate in the United States Army Cadet Summer...
Pirate Nurse takes flight over eastern NC to save lives
As a boy, Hunter Venters walked the fields of his family’s farms near Chicod in southern Pitt County. From time-to-time small planes would fly overhead. Venters doesn’t remember wanting to...
Dental school county-based oral health care programs thrive
When Connie Burleson moved from Sanford, North Carolina, to Swan Quarter in coastal Hyde County, one of her favorite pastimes became driving the back roads and taking in the area’s...
New season opens Sept. 13 for performing arts series
The 2024-25 S. Rudolph Alexander Performing Arts Series (SRAPAS) opens Sept. 13 with the classical guitar Duo Exaudi featuring René Izquierdo and Elina Chekan in the A.J. Fletcher Recital Hall...
Living Learning Communities foster forever bonds
Ballard Hall can be a place to learn about the healthy and friendly rivalry between the East Carolina University Air Force ROTC and Army ROTC programs. Cadets from both units...
ECU’s Nursing Education program trains faculty for community college programs
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention make no bones about the schism in health care outcomes between urban and rural parts of the nation: “rural Americans are more likely...
Pirates make most of summer experiences
Many East Carolina University students spent their summers as interns, gaining real-world experience in their respective fields. These four Pirates played music, studied rainfall, wrote press releases and kept North...