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A woman wearing a purple graduation cap and gown holding a phone hugs a man in a graduation gown.
Dec 13, 2024
  • ECU News Services

Fall 2024 graduates set sail

East Carolina University’s fall Class of 2024 graduates completed their academic journeys Friday during a commencement ceremony in Minges Coliseum. The class totaled 1,938 graduates, including 1,400 undergraduate degrees, 495...

Dec 12, 2024
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Planned gifts expand university’s future success

Ripples of former Chancellor Leo Jenkins’s visionary leadership continue to create positive impact at East Carolina University. His influence expands into the future through the planned gifts of inductees to...

Dec 11, 2024
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Hands-on experience gives high schoolers a look at their health sciences education

Success stories start as dreams we harbor in our youth. Career days such as the third Future Health Professionals Conference Nov. 23 help fill in the critical details that make...

Dec 09, 2024
  • Ken Buday

ECU team finishes in top 2% of national cybersecurity competition

A team of East Carolina University students finished in the top 2% of the country during the National Cyber League’s national cybersecurity competition Nov. 8-10. “We’re thrilled with our standing...

A woman wearing a graduation cap and gown holds her fingers in the shape of a hook.
Dec 06, 2024
  • Steven Grandy

Kaitlin Warren, Occupational Therapy

A community feel has been important to Kaitlin Warren throughout her time at East Carolina University. “I loved the sense of community I felt when I visited the campus for...

A young man with a mustache and goatee wears a purple mortarboard with gold tassel and purple graduation gown crosses his arms with closed fists while smiling.
Dec 06, 2024
  • Crystal Baity

Jayson Arnold, Public Health

Jayson Arnold said his time at East Carolina University has taught him to embrace the unexpected. From the pandemic his freshman year to helping hurricane relief efforts through his American...

Marcos Ardon Lobos stands in graduation cap and gown.
Dec 06, 2024
  • Ronnie Woodward

Marcos Ardon Lobos, Recreation Sciences

Through experiential learning opportunities at East Carolina University and in community settings, Marcos Ardon Lobos learned the versatility of virtual reality research and explored VR as an emerging and innovative...

Margaret Maynor in her cap and gown
Dec 06, 2024
  • Kristen Martin

Margaret Maynor, Curriculum and Instruction

This week Margaret Maynor achieves a dream she has had since 1983 — walking across the stage as an East Carolina University graduate. Directly after high school, Maynor attended ECU...

A series of two female and two male students dressed in graduation regalia pose for individual headshots.
Dec 05, 2024
  • ECU News Services

Grad Profiles: Fall 2024

A group of Pirates who began their journey at East Carolina University at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic will now part ways to pursue careers that fulfill ECU’s motto—Servire,...

A bearded man in a purple t-shirt talks with a group of women who are preparing food in a large conference room.
Dec 03, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

Physician assistant students learn how to incorporate culinary medicine into future practice

East Carolina University’s Department of Nutrition Science has piloted a program to teach future health care providers the ins and outs of food, and how to prepare nutritious meals, so...