Study Abroad Archives

Feb 07, 2023
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU anthropology professor selected for distinguished professorship in international studies

East Carolina University professor of anthropology Megan Perry has been selected for the Thomas W. Rivers Distinguished Professorship for International Studies in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences....

East Carolina University alumni Sophia and Peter Ku have established an endowment to honor the kindness shown to them at ECU.
Jan 05, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

UNEXPECTED KINDNESS

Peter Ku ’68 describes his life as a series of miracles that brought him to the United States from Taiwan and eventually to East Carolina College where he found the...

ECU Students awarded the Rivers Foreign Exchange Scholarship stand with Provost Robin Coger and Dr. Jon Rezek.
Nov 10, 2022
  • Jamie Smith

INTERNATIONAL GROWTH

To help kick off International Education Week, East Carolina University recognized faculty, staff and students for their outstanding work in pursuing international opportunities during its International Awards Ceremony. “As you...

Education Abroad Coordinator Rose Malone leads a Global Fellows freshmen seminar class. The program welcomed its first group of undergrad students this fall.
Nov 02, 2022
  • Jamie Smith

GLOBAL FELLOWS

East Carolina University welcomed its first group undergraduate students to the Global Fellows program this fall. Twenty-four students were selected for the program designed to help develop leaders in our...

Oct 20, 2022
  • Jules Norwood

Doctoral project models fisheries, food insecurity

Samantha Farquhar, a doctoral student in East Carolina University’s Integrated Coastal Sciences program, will travel to northern Quebec next year to study and model how fisheries relate to food systems...

Calli Jon Massengill is an Honors College student who is using her passion for helping others to teach underprivileged and special education students.
Sep 21, 2022
  • Hannah Eccleston

Student: Calli Jon Massengill

Calli Jon Massengill, a special education major at East Carolina University, knew early she had a passion for helping others learn. “I have always known I wanted to teach and...

Aug 09, 2022
  • Jules Norwood

GLOBAL CONNECTIONS

East Carolina University’s Dr. Jami Leibowitz, associate director of global affairs, has received a Fulbright U.S. Global Scholar Program award from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign...

Cooper Rust, executive director of Dance Centre Kenya, teaches at East Carolina University in April. A group of ECU dance students and professors traveled this summer to Kenya where they learned a variety of African dance styles.
Jul 28, 2022
  • Crystal Baity

WINDOW TO THE WORLD

A group of East Carolina University dance students and professors traveled this summer to Kenya, where — immersed in local culture — they learned a variety of African dance styles,...

Mar 09, 2022
  • Jamie Smith

STORIES FROM UKRAINE

Trigger warning: This article mentions violence and sexual assault. Only the first names of the Ukrainian participants are used in this article. Each day, glimpses of the Russian invasion of...

Approximately $95,000 in study abroad scholarships were awarded to students during East Carolina University's 2021 International Awards Ceremony ceremony.
Nov 17, 2021
  • ECU News Services
  • Jamie Smith

RECOGNIZING INTERNATIONALIZATION

East Carolina University celebrated the beginning of International Education Week on Monday during the university’s International Awards Ceremony. Faculty, staff and students were recognized for their outstanding work in pursuing...