Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall Archives

Apr 15, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Annual service event encourages community volunteerism

Across Pirate Nation, alumni are gearing up to serve their communities as part of the second annual ECU Alumni Days of Service hosted by the East Carolina University Alumni Association...

Apr 10, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

ECU and Golden LEAF Foundation commemorate success

Golden LEAF Foundation scholarships are a family tradition for East Carolina University senior Sarah Nasser and sophomore Khalid Nasser. Both are current scholars. Their younger brother, Saad, has been accepted...

Mar 17, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall
  • Ronnie Woodward

Caswell’s $280,000 gift impacts students, families

An internship at Caswell Development Center has fueled recreational therapy major Jordan Cianci’s passion to work with adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Social work major Niki Cobb became emotional...

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Mar 07, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Donor support burns brightly during Pirate Nation Gives

More than 2,300 alumni, friends and students took the cake to support East Carolina University during Pirate Nation Gives on March 5. Gifts came from far away and right in...

Mar 04, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

ECU set to celebrate ninth day of giving Wednesday

Students on the East Carolina University Club Volleyball team intend to compete in nationals this year in Phoenix, Arizona. They are counting on donations and bonus money earned during Pirate...

Mar 03, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Pirate Nation Gives offers many ways to support university

Scan the code and give to an area of East Carolina University that is important to you. Using the QR code embedded on signs around campus and seen in this...

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Feb 14, 2025
  • Kristen Martin
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Lesson in Love: Study abroad led to this Pirate’s happily ever after

Life-changing is a phrase most students use to describe their study abroad experience. East Carolina University alumna Laurel Truelove Currie ’10 didn’t know just how much study abroad would change...

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Feb 12, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Scholarship initiative boosts recruitment of high-achieving students

East Carolina University is better prepared to provide scholarships to more high-achieving students thanks to donor support of the institution’s new Chancellor’s Scholars Initiative. Through this new initiative, more than...

Jan 17, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

ECU alumnus riding a wave of documentary success

Editor’s note: The ECU alumnus featured in this story lives in southern California. At the time of publication, he and his family were safe from devastating fires. As a lifelong...

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Jan 13, 2025
  • Kristen Martin
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Mellon Foundation funds paid internship program

East Carolina University will receive more than $1 million for the College of Education (COE) to support paid archival studies internships through a first-time grant from the Mellon Foundation’s Public...