ATTRACTING HIGH ACHIEVERS
A lesser-known scholarship at East Carolina University valued at up to $100,000 aims to attract high achieving students on par with North Carolina State’s Park Scholarship and the Morehead-Cain Scholarship...
Erin Ward Archives
MISS AMERICA
Nia Franklin, a Winston-Salem native and East Carolina University music composition graduate, was crowned Miss America on Sunday night. Franklin is the 92nd Miss America and the first winner to...
EXPANDING MEMBERSHIP
In order to better connect and engage with alumni, the East Carolina University Alumni Association is transitioning from its current transactional, dues-based membership model to one that includes all Pirate...
Hannah Coalson
Community is what drew Hannah Coalson to East Carolina University and the Honors College. “I really liked the feel of it. And that you get to room with people that...
Katelyn McKinney
A love of horses and an interest in psychology made Katelyn McKinney want to pursue equine-assisted therapy in college and beyond. Being an EC Scholar means she’ll have extra support...
PARKER PIRATES
They share the same name, the same parents and the same love of East Carolina University. Now, the Parker quadruplets are finished with their first year of college. Payton, Patrick...
CHANCELLOR’S AMETHYST
Thanks to donor initiatives, an East Carolina University student with dyslexia is succeeding in his classes, a nursing student with financial need is getting help paying for her education, and...
LOYAL ADVOCATE
Walter Williams, one of East Carolina University’s most loyal advocates and benefactors, died in the early morning hours of March 5, 2018. He was 88. Williams and his wife Marie...
‘EVEN STRONGER’
A new public health scholarship will help East Carolina University students interested in working in long-term care, an increasingly important area of study as the state and nation’s population ages...
FINDING A CURE
Every day, ECU’s Brody School of Medicine teems with professors and students pipetting cell cultures, analyzing tissues and eyeballing microscopes in the name of cutting-edge research. The Brody Brothers Foundation...