Engagement Archives

Feb 07, 2023
  • Kim Tilghman

Two Faculty Innovators Selected for Pitch Event

Dr. Sharon Rogers Moore, associate professor for the College of Business, and Dr. Jitka Virag, associate professor at the ECU Brody School of Medicine, have been selected to participate in...

Oct 04, 2022
  • Kim Tilghman

Faculty Science-Art Collaboration Project, “Was Here,” Illustrates Sea Level Change

East Carolina University’s Outer Banks Campus will host a disassembling event for a large art installation, “Was Here,” on Friday, October 7, 5 p.m.-6 p.m. Open to the public, the...

Shrimp seafood dish
May 24, 2021

MAKING THEIR MARK

Making a name for your company is never easy, especially in an industry as well respected as North Carolina’s commercial fishing enterprise.  Dell and Richard Newman, owners of Belhaven’s County...

May 21, 2021

Pirates Selected to SECU Internship Program

Twenty East Carolina University students will spend the summer as part of the university’s State Employees Credit Union Public Fellows Internship program. The program, led by the Office of Community...

Nov 19, 2020

COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS

For many nonprofits, it’s not just their mission that defines them, but the connections they build within their communities. East Carolina University sophomore Vedika Modi learned about the importance of...

Nov 19, 2020

MARKETING MEGAPHONE

Moving around during childhood can be stressful for any student constantly boxing up and uprooting their lives. After more than four moves and a constant reshuffling of schools and friends,...

Nov 19, 2020

BUILDING BUSINESSES

Libraries aren’t traditionally the place you go for small business support, but one East Carolina University student is changing that perception in Wayne County. Accounting major Dejah McManus, an Indian...

Nov 19, 2020

UNWAVERING COMMITMENT

Despite the challenges that arose in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, East Carolina University continued its State Employees’ Credit Union Public Fellows Internship program, offering 20 students a chance...

Aug 31, 2020

Interns Announced for 2020 SECU Internship Program

Twenty East Carolina University students will spend the fall as part of the university’s State Employees Credit Union Public Fellows Internship program. The program, led by the Division of Research,...

Ethernet cables hooked into computer system
Aug 14, 2020

Expanding Broadband Opportunities

COVID-19 uncovered the realities of the rural digital divide. While almost all Americans living in urban and suburban areas have access to high speed internet, only about 63% of people...