Study Abroad Archives

East Carolina University celebrated the graduation of the Class of 2023 Friday in Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium.
May 05, 2023
  • ECU News Services

PIRATE JOURNEY

Each one’s journey has been different, but almost 5,000 Pirates now share at least one major accomplishment in common — they are East Carolina University graduates. ECU’s Class of 2023...

Stepping out of her shell during her time at East Carolina University led senior Wrenn Whitfield to find her home at ECU.
May 01, 2023
  • Jules Norwood

SPREADING SMILES

STATISTICS Name: Wrenn Whitfield College: Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Majors: Biochemistry, concentration in biology; Business administration minor; Entrepreneurship certificate Age: 22 Classification/Year: Senior Hometown: Kinston, North Carolina ...

Mar 16, 2023
  • Ronnie Woodward

Event, programs celebrate International Women’s Day

An International Women’s Day celebration at East Carolina University on Tuesday provided an array of programming options for attendees, including a film screening of “The Seeds of Vandana Shiva” and...

Tessa Gibson works on a canoe with Gerald Weckesser in East Carolina University's first boat building class in summer 2016. Weckesser is building relationships that bring the boat building techniques to classrooms across the world.
Mar 10, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

BUILDING BOATS AND BRIDGES

A boat building course at East Carolina University has become the perfect vessel to build bridges with other universities and institutions at home and abroad. Since 2016, School of Art...

East Carolina University political science major and Honors College sophomore Tierney Reardon is expanding her global understanding while studying and interning this semester in London.
Mar 06, 2023
  • Lacey L. Gray

THE LONDON EXPERIENCE

East Carolina University sophomore Tierney Reardon is expanding her global understanding through a semester-long study abroad experience in London. Reardon, who is an EC Scholar in the Honors College, is...

A view from a hillside in Italy is what many East Carolina University students participating in the ECU Tuscany program see on their studies abroad. ECU's growing international program was one of four institutions nationwide to receive the Senator Paul Simon Award for Comprehensive Internationalization by NAFSA: Association of International Educators.
Feb 15, 2023
  • Jamie Smith

NATIONAL AWARD

East Carolina University’s growing international program was one of four institutions nationwide to receive the Senator Paul Simon Award for Comprehensive Internationalization by NAFSA: Association of International Educators. The award...

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...