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ECU students celebrate at graduation.
Apr 27, 2022
  • Jules Norwood

PIRATE PRIDE

East Carolina University will hold its commencement ceremony for spring and summer graduates in Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium on Friday, May 6, at 9 a.m. More than 4,600 graduates will be recognized...

Apr 27, 2022
  • Jules Norwood

ECU, FSU establish student pipelines in key areas

East Carolina University and Fayetteville State University (FSU) have taken the next step in establishing partnerships and pathways for students between the two institutions. Last fall, university leaders signed a...

ECU student Adam Berman poses in an art building.
Apr 26, 2022
  • Crystal Baity

Student: Adam Berman

East Carolina University student Adam Berman has spent the last three years working on his master’s degree while teaching printmaking in the School of Art and Design, where 18th and...

Chad Carwein, university sustainability manager, supervises while Julia Florack works with a bee hive frame.
Apr 22, 2022
  • Jules Norwood

DIG IT

East Carolina University and its student environmental organizations celebrated Earth Day with a full week of events, kicking off with a honey extraction demonstration and wrapping up with a farm...

Apr 20, 2022
  • Crystal Baity

‘Romeo and Juliet’ opens at ECU

Shakespeare’s Elizabethan age comes to life in a late ’80s pre-grunge era in East Carolina University’s production of “Romeo and Juliet.” ECU School of Theatre and Dance faculty member Greg...

Brady Buchanan, a student in the Brody School of Medicine, talks with his Legacy Teacher, Carolyn Sutton Moore, during the Legacy Teachers celebration at the Murphy Center.
Apr 20, 2022
  • Spaine Stephens

LEGACY TEACHERS

When Carolyn Moore found herself in the hospital late last year for the third time in a month, frustration was setting in. A group of medical students trooped into her...

ECU students Patrick Young, from left, and Logan Darr post in front of ECU's STEPP Program office.
Apr 19, 2022
  • Jules Norwood

A TAILORED STRATEGY

As students with learning disabilities transition from high school to college, East Carolina University’s STEPP Program (Supporting Transition and Education through Planning and Partnerships) helps ensure that they have the...

Apr 18, 2022
  • Spaine Stephens

Health sciences students gain valuable experience from interprofessional workshop

Students from every college and school on East Carolina University’s Health Sciences Campus participated in the Truist Developing Future Interprofessional Healthcare Leaders workshop earlier this month at Eastern Area Health...

A volunteer cuts hair at ECU's Pirates Vs. Cancer event.
Apr 12, 2022
  • Rob Spahr

PIRATES VS. CANCER 2022

After being limited by the COVID-19 pandemic for the last two years, one of the most popular and successful fundraisers on East Carolina University’s Health Sciences Campus returned to full...

Apr 11, 2022
  • Ronnie Woodward

Transition to updated accessible icon begins on main campus

The Hildreth family’s roots were in Reading, Mass., for decades until 2012, when a move to New Bern made eastern North Carolina home. A significant part of that process was...