RETURN TO TUSCANY
A fortunate few East Carolina University students will spend the fall semester in Certaldo Alto, Italy, through the ECU Tuscany study abroad program, which received the green light this week...
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YouTube star MrBeast donates tech to ECU students
One of the most-subscribed YouTube creators in the country stopped by East Carolina University to donate more than $27,000 in laptops, iPads and headsets. MrBeast, the famously generous YouTuber whose...
RECLAIMING HISTORY
East Carolina University students in the Department of Anthropology are back in the field this summer helping recover and catalog abandoned cemeteries across eastern North Carolina. Under the direction of...
ENGINEERING PIRATES
Oscar Maldonado grew up watching and later working on the big rigs in his father’s trucking company in Clinton. His passion for trucks and cars grew — he’s the proud...
At age 60, ECU student Karen Knight believes it’s never too late
Karen Knight always knew she wanted to further her education after receiving a degree in 1982. Now after nearly 40 years, this grandmother is doing just that. Knight is working...
PROMISING PARTNERSHIPS
Entering its third year, RISE29, East Carolina University’s student entrepreneurship program, is finding its footing. Tasked with creating a new generation of entrepreneurial leaders in the university’s 29-county service area,...
Campus compliance and immunization update for students
ECU is committed to the safety and well-being of our students and employees and to decreasing the spread of COVID-19. This fall, it will take all of Pirate Nation to get...
BATTLING BIAS
This year’s Pirate Read, “The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias” by Dolly Chugh will offer East Carolina University students tips to reduce the effects of...
ENCOURAGING ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
Preserving history and heritage is a prominent goal in the field of archaeology, and East Carolina University’s Maritime Studies Program helps students gain the knowledge to meet that goal through...
Baile selected to national economic and community engagement student advisory group
Rising East Carolina University senior Maggie Baile will represent the university on the inaugural Association of Public and Land-grant Universities’ (APLU) Commission on Economic and Community Engagement (CECE) Student Advisory...