Michael Rudd Archives

Jun 11, 2020
  • Michael Rudd

How might ENC businesses recover from COVID-19? Look to the past

College of Business expert Dr. Laura Madden joins us in Talk Like a Pirate: Episode 12 to compare the local business economic recovery efforts during COVID-19 to recovery efforts during...

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May 13, 2020
  • Michael Rudd

Charles Brooks

There’s a nightstand in a Wake Forest home that contains a letter. The letter, addressed to 18-year-old Charles Michael Brooks Jr., includes purple and gold stars and the words “we...

Apr 03, 2020
  • Michael Rudd

COMMITMENT TO COMMUNITY

A recent East Carolina University graduate and small business owner has started making face shields to help the local medical community during the COVID-19 crisis. Taylor Walden owns Simple and...

Feb 20, 2020
  • Michael Rudd

DREAMS COME TRUE

The final round of the 2019-20 Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge concluded Wednesday night with FishingLicense.us taking first place and a cash prize of $15,000. FishingLicense.us is the team of ECU biology...

Dec 03, 2019
  • Michael Rudd

INTROVERT NO MORE

Soon-to-be-alumnus Calvin Massey Jr. describes himself as an introvert. However, he was able to break out of that personality trait when he enrolled at East Carolina University and the College...

Students receive strong foundation in the entrepreneurial skillset
May 30, 2019
  • Michael Rudd

NEW ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEGREE

East Carolina University’s College of Business (COB) will offer a new undergraduate degree in entrepreneurship through the Miller School of Entrepreneurship beginning in fall 2019. The Bachelor of Science in...

Medals
May 21, 2019
  • Michael Rudd

Caleb Myers

One can assume that Vancouver, British Columbia, will always hold a special place in the heart of 17-year-old Caleb Myers. He was having breakfast at a Tim Hortons when he...

Medals
May 21, 2019
  • Michael Rudd

Oswaldo Javier Rangel Corona

Nineteen-year-old Oswaldo Javier Rangel Corona was not home when he was named an EC Scholar. “I was so eager to find out, but I was at work and could not...

In 2018, Pol Solanellas Manzanares, an MBA student from Barcelona, Spain, was involved in a biking accident that left him in a coma for two weeks and put him on a long road to recovery. On May 3, 2019, Solanellas will receive his MBA during the College of Business commencement ceremonies.
May 02, 2019
  • Michael Rudd

Graduate profile: Pol Solanellas Manzanares

Barcelona native Pol Solanellas Manzanares was living the dream that he saw so many times on TV or movies back home in Spain as a student-athlete at East Carolina University...

Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge final round winners Camden Bathras, left, and Steven Lipscomb receive congratulations at the Murphy Center Thursday, Feb. 22, 2019.
Feb 22, 2019
  • Michael Rudd

CHALLENGE MET

The second, three-round Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge concluded Feb. 21 with student-team Vybe taking first place and a cash prize of $15,000. Vybe is an application that allows users to track...