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Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge final round winners Camden Bathras, left, and Steven Lipscomb receive congratulations at the Murphy Center Thursday, Feb. 22, 2019.
Feb 22, 2019
  • Michael Rudd

CHALLENGE MET

The second, three-round Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge concluded Feb. 21 with student-team Vybe taking first place and a cash prize of $15,000. Vybe is an application that allows users to track...

Feb 20, 2019

Alumni Association names leadership award recipients

The East Carolina University Alumni Association named its five student recipients of the Robert H. Wright Alumni Leadership Award on Tuesday. The award recognizes students’ academic achievement as well as...

Feb 15, 2019
  • Kelly Rusk

WALK IN THEIR SHOES

More than 50 East Carolina University undergraduate students participated in a poverty simulation on Feb. 8, with the goal of increasing their understanding of the day-to-day realities faced by people...

Feb 13, 2019

Dowdy Student Store to host Grad Expo

Dowdy Student Store will host a Grad Expo for May 2019 graduates from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Feb. 19 and 20 and from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m....

Feb 12, 2019

ECU university studies major wins top award in Campus Movie Fest competition

East Carolina University senior Nathaniel Reid, a university studies major, has won the Campus Movie Fest best video award in the Hurricane Florence category. This category, sponsored by ECU’s Water...

Feb 08, 2019

Scholarship encourages ECU students to help rural hometowns after graduation

East Carolina University senior Carley VanHoy wants to make a difference in the world, starting with her hometown. The Mount Airy native and elementary education major is one of nearly...

Jan 31, 2019

Bright named associate dean for ECU Brody School of Medicine admissions

Cedric M. Bright, associate dean for inclusive excellence at the UNC School of Medicine, has been named associate dean for admissions for the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina...

Members of ECU’s Black Student Union serve lunch at the Community Crossroads Center.
Jan 25, 2019
  • Doug Boyd
  • Jamie Smith

LEGACY OF SERVICE

A day off from classes is normally a welcomed invitation to sleep in and take it easy, but on Monday, Jan. 21, hundreds of East Carolina University students braved an...

Jan 24, 2019

Engineering students focus on capstone project at Cherry Point

Fleet Readiness Center East recently hosted visitors from East Carolina University to strengthen a longstanding relationship and partnership in developing future engineers. ECU College of Engineering and Technology Dean Harry...

Taylor Reed Pirate Profile
Jan 22, 2019
  • Bri Deel

Student: Taylor Reed

Taylor Reed is studying in Poland this semester — the first student from East Carolina University to win the Erasmus+ Scholarship to attend Krosno State College. Reed is a junior...