University News Archives

Dec 04, 2024
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Donors, students celebrate scholarships that lighten the load of medical school debt

“It should not be the case that when you cross Interstate 95 you have a different life expectancy,” Dr. Michael Dale Warren told a crowd of donors and medical students...

Nov 27, 2024
  • Kim Tilghman

ECU celebrates graduates of Rural Community Capacity program

On Nov. 21, East Carolina University graduated its first participants from the Rural Community Capacity (RC2) program, a statewide initiative focused on building stronger, more competitive and more prosperous rural...

Nov 27, 2024
  • ECU News Services

Chancellor Rogers’ Message, November 2024

To the Pirate Nation Family: This point in November is one of my very favorite times of year on campus. The fall colors are still hanging on, while the campus...

Cole Miller, a male with dark hair and dark eyes smiles at the camera while wearing a white button up shirt and blueish black suit jacket while standing in front of ECU’s Joyner clocktower.
Nov 25, 2024
  • Michael Rudd

Student: Cole Miller

Over the past four years, there has been a constant presence at numerous College of Business events available for students. He's no wallflower at these events, sheepishly standing alone, unsure...

A tall man wearing a suit stands next to an older woman wearing a maroon sweater holding an award. An older man wearing a purple sweater holding an award stands to their right.
Nov 22, 2024
  • ECU News Services

Board of Trustees recognizes Pirate accomplishments

In its final meeting of 2024, the East Carolina University Board of Trustees honored alumni Bob Greczyn as well as Bill and Frances Cain with the Trustees Award for Distinction....

A nearly bald man with a white mustache and goatee, wearing a colorful scarf and black suit jacket, gestures with his hands while sitting to the left of a small table with a gold lamp. A woman with black, curly hair wearing a black dress with a colored streak pattern, sits to the right and holds a microphone with a folder in her lap.
Nov 18, 2024
  • Lacey L. Gray

Trailblazing tales: An evening with actor, director and literacy advocate LeVar Burton

The atmosphere was palpable as an audience of nearly 900 community members, students, faculty and staff enthusiastically welcomed — with a standing ovation — actor, director and literacy advocate LeVar...

Matt Crisp and Mike Harris with an auditorium full of COB students, faculty and friends of the college.
Nov 05, 2024
  • Michael Rudd

Leadership on Display

When College of Business students take their professional development and ethical leadership class, they know that what they learn will be put to the test in a variety of circumstances....

Oct 23, 2024
  • Michael Rudd

Entrepreneurs pitch business ideas in the Gene T. Aman Pirate Challenge

On the day when the Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge was officially renamed the Gene T. Aman Pirate Challenge, the energy and excitement from the announcement spilled onto East Carolina University’s Mall...

Kim Briley and six of her family members smile and pose with her framed Order of the Long Leaf Pine award outside the Brody Medical Sciences Building.
Oct 15, 2024
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda

ECU medical school researcher named to Order of the Long Leaf Pine

Kimberly Briley spent 35 years serving the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University — and has never been able to see herself anywhere else. Briley, who retired in...

A man in a dark suit and dark rimmed glasses holds a framed certificate alongside a woman in a purple dress. In the background the ocean is visible.
Oct 15, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

Pirate audiologist honored with Order of the Long Leaf Pine

Dr. Johnnie Sexton, an alumnus of East Carolina University’s audiology program, was recently honored with the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, one of the highest honors the state of...