Students Archives

Apr 27, 2021
  • Ken Buday

INSPIRING SUCCESS

When Jessie Drymon was an East Carolina University student, she tutored and learned at the Pirate Academic Success Center. Now that she is a registered nurse caring for organ transplant...

Apr 26, 2021
  • Natalie Sayewich
  • Rob Spahr

PIRATES VS. CANCER

The COVID-19 pandemic presented a host of challenges for the student organizers of the annual Pirates Vs. Cancer fundraiser this year, but they remained undaunted and still managed to raise...

Apr 23, 2021
  • Crystal Baity

Larger-than-life puppets featured in ECU production of ‘Lysistrata’

East Carolina University’s Loessin Playhouse will close its virtual season with a performance of “Lysistrata,” featuring larger-than-life puppets. The School of Theatre and Dance will stream an adaptation of the...

Apr 22, 2021
  • Ken Buday

ECU engineering student receives NSF research fellowship

East Carolina University engineering student Shea Middleton has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. The oldest graduate fellowship of its kind, the NSF GRFP provides a three-year...

Apr 15, 2021
  • Kristen Martin

Engineering student receives prestigious Goldwater scholarship

East Carolina University engineering major Elliot Paul has been named a 2021 Goldwater Scholar, the most prestigious national undergraduate scholarship in the natural sciences, mathematics and engineering. More than 1,200...

Apr 15, 2021
  • ECU News Services

2021 Spring Commencement Ceremonies Update

East Carolina University will host three in-person commencement ceremonies Friday, May 7 at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium to celebrate the spring Class of 2021 and the Class of 2020. University of North...

Apr 15, 2021
  • Jamie Smith

2021 COMMENCEMENT

East Carolina University will host three in-person commencement ceremonies Friday, May 7 at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium to celebrate the spring Class of 2021 and the Class of 2020. University of North...

Apr 14, 2021
  • Lacey L. Gray

FUTURE CHANGE MAKERS

This spring, East Carolina University undergraduates taking a 4000-level research course in African and African American Studies (AAAS) are learning how their history and diverse, interdisciplinary research interests may help...

Apr 12, 2021
  • Crystal Baity

Student: Merdi Lutete

Maybe Merdi Lutete would be a newscaster. Or a tennis player. “I honestly was all over the place depending on which TV show I was watching at the time,” said...

Apr 12, 2021
  • Michael Rudd

WHEN EAST MEETS WEST

One of the Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge's main goals is to inspire and encourage winning entrepreneurial collaboration across East Carolina University. Consider that goal accomplished. Dr. George Schilling, a third-year physical...