University News Archives

Oct 27, 2017
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

ECU, Howard ink partnership agreement

Serving as the foundation for future collaboration, representatives of Howard University and East Carolina University signed a memorandum of understanding between the two institutions on Oct. 26. Describing it as...

Oct 27, 2017
  • Jules Norwood

Innovation Station

More than two dozen East Carolina University students, faculty and staff, as well as members of the Greenville community, have begun an entrepreneurship boot camp called I-Corps to help hone...

Dr. Stan Eakins, dean of the College of Business, addresses members of the UNC Board of Governors at a reception on Oct. 12. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Oct 13, 2017
  • Michael Rudd

RECOGNIZING EXCELLENCE

East Carolina University’s College of Business has earned the Milestone 2 Award from the North Carolina Awards for Excellence program. UNC President Margaret Spellings presented the award to Dr. Stan...

Oct 12, 2017
  • Natalie Sayewich

A NATIONAL LEADER

The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University (ECU) was ranked second in the nation among M.D.-granting medical schools — and first in the state — this year for...

At left, Dr. Cecil Staton, chancellor of ECU, watches as workers from T.A. Loving/Barnhill prepare the construction beam that was signed by students, staff, faculty and administrators for installation.
Oct 04, 2017
  • Crystal Baity

TOPPING OFF

A tower crane carried the final beam of the new East Carolina University student center to its destination under a beautiful blue, fall sky on Oct. 4. Ten years in...

Lt. Col. April Wimmer, professor of aerospace studies and Lt. Col. Melissa Coleman, professor of military science.
Sep 27, 2017
  • Bre Lewis

CAMPUS MISSION

East Carolina University continues to strengthen its military programs, most recently with the addition of Lt. Col. Melissa Coleman, professor of military science, and Lt. Col. April Wimmer, professor of...

Regan Simmer (right), a tutor at the Pirate Academic Success Center, helped Lee Brame “see” graphs for his economics course by recreating them with puffy paint.
Sep 19, 2017
  • Jules Norwood

PAINT AND NUMBERS

How do you study a graph if you can’t see it? That’s the problem that faced East Carolina University students Lee Brame and Regan Simmer, his tutor at the Pirate...

Chancellor Cecil P. Staton announces the university’s Rural Prosperity Initiative
Sep 14, 2017
  • ECU News Services

RURAL PROSPERITY

A first-ever effort to marshal the combined resources of 12 East Carolina University colleges and schools, 14 centers and institutes and university partners behind a single, coordinated campaign, the “Rural...

A record number of students – 29,131 – enrolled at ECU this fall.
Sep 14, 2017
  • Crystal Baity

TOP COLLEGES

East Carolina University once again ranks in the top tier of national universities in a new listing by U.S. News & World Report.  ECU is one of the top four...

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Sep 06, 2017
  • Jamie Smith

RECORD ENROLLMENT

There are more faces from more places at East Carolina University this semester than ever before. ECU’s record-breaking fall enrollment of 29,131 students represents all 100 counties in North Carolina,...