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A man in military uniform draping a purple graduation gown over his shoulder while standing on a college campus.
Dec 13, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

Andrew DiCuirci – Computer Science

East Carolina University is ready to welcome a patriotic DiCuirci family tradition. Andrew DiCuirci is the youngest of three sons and will graduate Friday with a Bachelor of Science in...

A student stands outdoors on ECU’s campus with arms crossed, wearing a light-colored blazer over a dark top, smiling in front of a brick building and fall foliage. A graphic on the right reads “Pirate Profiles.”
Dec 12, 2025
  • Alondra Martinez

Student: Cooper Hilbert

East Carolina University senior Cooper Hilbert has spent his college career exploring how cities work and how they can work better. What began as simple curiosity grew into a passion...

Two teenagers sit looking at a computer screen while a medical student points and appears to explain something.
Dec 11, 2025
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Hands-on anatomy broadens horizons for eastern North Carolina high schoolers

On the seventh floor of the Brody School of Medicine, in the pathology lab space, Rachel Smith stood in scrubs and nitrile gloves and lifted a dissected aorta, then a...

A woman in a dark blazer pets a black dog on a leash.
Dec 09, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Animal partners prepare counseling students for challenging client work

Dr. Celeste Crawford, a clinical associate professor in East Carolina University’s Department of Addictions and Rehabilitation Studies and director of the Navigate Counseling Clinic, usually has a teaching assistant at...

Dec 08, 2025
  • Lacey L. Gray

Digital humanities projects foster student leadership

Seeing historic locations with one’s own eyes, hearing sounds of a bustling city, feeling cobblestone walkways underfoot, and smelling and tasting delicacies from a foreign culture are experiences that last...

Dec 04, 2025
  • Jessica VanderKolk

ECU ceramics collection gives students unique, hands-on opportunities

Before creating their own teapots this semester, students in an East Carolina University wheel throwing ceramics class spent time browsing the School of Art and Design’s own unique special collection,...

A woman with long curly red hair and glasses sits outdoors on ECU’s campus, smiling at the camera. She wears a tan blazer over a black top, surrounded by green shrubs and fall trees in soft focus. On the right side of the image, a graphic reads “Pirate Profiles” in purple and gold.
Dec 02, 2025
  • Alondra Martinez

Student: RaSheeda Waddell

RaSheeda Waddell’s journey at East Carolina University began with music but it has evolved into a path of remarkable achievement in higher education as she works toward her Doctor of...

Dec 01, 2025
  • Alondra Martinez

ECU to open its doors for a season of art and music

East Carolina University is ushering in the holiday season with the return of its School of Art and Design Visual Arts Forum Holiday Sale and GlasStation Sale Thursday through Saturday...

Dec 01, 2025
  • Ken Buday

ECU robotics team wins national competition

If robots are indeed going to take over the world someday, a group of East Carolina University students may just be responsible. ECU’s robotics team won the Association of Technology,...

Nov 26, 2025
  • Steven Grandy

Hospitality leadership students prepare Thanksgiving feast

Students in East Carolina University’s School of Hospitality Management’s advanced food production and service management class served a Thanksgiving feast for lunch in the Darden Dining Hall on Nov. 21....