Students Archives

Sep 19, 2023
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU’s Harriot College celebrates student scholarship recipients, thanks donors

East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences celebrated students and thanked its generous donors at the college’s eighth annual scholarship luncheon on Sept. 15 in the Main...

Sep 19, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

ECU remains a top college in 2024 U.S. News rankings

East Carolina University is a top five school in North Carolina in best public schools and top 10 in the state in all national university categories in U.S. News & World...

Behzad Zeinolabedini, an East Carolina University engineering graduate student, interned with LS Cable & System USA as part of a unique pollution prevention program through ECU's Center for Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering.
Sep 18, 2023
  • Ken Buday

PREVENTING POLLUTION

At a large manufacturing plant outside the small town of Tarboro, East Carolina University student Behzad Zeinolabedini looks toward the ceiling. Amid the spooling strands of copper wire that will...

Sep 15, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

Meaning in making: ECU students turn everyday objects into art

Earlier this week, visiting scholar Neil Nenner challenged East Carolina University graduate students to go outside the School of Art and Design and photograph things they normally wouldn’t. The exercise...

Sep 13, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

ECU art and design alumnus recognized by South Arts

An East Carolina University alumnus has been named a state fellow and finalist for the prestigious 2023 South Arts Southern Prize for Visual Arts. Michael Webster of Spartanburg, South Carolina,...

East Carolina University students look at a chalkboard of messages during a mental health awareness event in February. (ECU photo by Rhett Butler)
Sep 11, 2023
  • Jules Norwood

YOU MATTER

Everyone’s journey is different.  East Carolina University offers a wide range of mental health and well-being resources, and now, Campus Recreation and Wellness (CRW) is raising awareness and connecting the...

Sep 07, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

ECU remains a Best Bang for the Buck school in new ranking

East Carolina University is in the top 15% of Best Bang for the Buck schools in the Southeast according to an annual ranking released Aug. 28 by Washington Monthly. In...

Sep 06, 2023
  • Ken Buday

ECU engineering student spends summer repairing medical equipment in Uganda

Rolando Rosado returned to East Carolina University this fall with perspective from a summer spent helping people and saving lives. The junior engineering student participated in the Engineering World Health...

Jackquelyn Derritt portrait photo
Sep 06, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

Student: Jackquelyn Derritt

East Carolina University’s Jackquelyn Derritt is pursuing a master’s degree in English with the goal of teaching college students one day. She admired her teachers at White Oak High School...

Erin Roberts, left, uses her fingers to demonstrate eye movement desensitization and reprocessing with colleague Jennifer Matthews.
Sep 06, 2023
  • Ronnie Woodward

EMPOWERING ENC

Faculty members in East Carolina University’s College of Health and Human Performance are taking a multi-layered approach to trauma-informed education and implementation. This focus stems from a four-year grant of...