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Jun 23, 2021

EXEMPLARY SERVICE

The North Carolina Agromedicine Institute has been nationally recognized for an exemplary project by the Engagement Scholarship Consortium. An inter-institutional partnership among East Carolina University, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical...

Jun 23, 2021

Baile Selected to National Economic and Community Engagement Student Advisory Group

Rising East Carolina University senior Maggie Baile will represent the university on the inaugural Association of Public and Land-grant Universities’ (APLU) Commission on Economic and Community Engagement (CECE) Student Advisory...

Jun 23, 2021

Five earn certification from ECU Economic Development Academy

In the first designation of its kind, five members of East Carolina University’s Economic Development Academy were named North Carolina Certified Economic Developers. Each member of the inaugural class completed...

Feb 04, 2021

NURTURING NUTRITION

While East Carolina University is known for preparing educators for the classroom, a team of Pirate researchers is studying how teachers’ personal views on healthy behaviors impact their students. Virginia...

Jan 15, 2021

Farmville’s Café Madeleine, RISE29 Interns Connect Over Confections

A group of East Carolina University interns is helping an artisanal bakery bring the taste of France to Farmville. Through ECU’s student entrepreneurship program RISE29, College of Fine Arts and...

Jan 15, 2021

RISE29 Internship Team Partners with Nonprofit to Explore Canning Business

A group of East Carolina University interns are helping Beaufort County’s Alpha Life Enrichment Center (ALEC) support farmers in eastern North Carolina. College of Education graduate student Tiffany Corey, College...

Nov 23, 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...

Nov 23, 2020

ECONOMIC ENGINE

East Carolina University’s annual economic impact across the state exceeds more than $2.5 billion, a 2019 study led by a team of Pirate researchers found. In total, the university supports...

East Carolina University Interim Chancellor Ron Mitchelson, left, and Tim Elliott, managing partner of Elliott Sidewalk Communities, discuss the Intersect East project in the Prichard-Hughes Warehouse in Greenville. Elliott Sidewalk Communities is developing the Intersect East project as part of the university’s millennial campus in the warehouse district near the intersection of Evans and 10th streets. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Oct 19, 2020

A NEW ERA

East Carolina University’s former warehouse district received a new name on Tuesday as the university and its development partner, Elliott Sidewalk Communities, introduced a master plan for the millennial campus...

East Carolina University associate professor Sharon Rogers Moore (left) and Pitt County Schools athletic director Ron Butler have been instrumental in making athletics safer for Pitt County high school athletes. The pair’s partnership was recognized by the Engagement Scholarship Consortium with its Excellence in Community Partner Engagement Award for its impact on high school athlete safety throughout the state. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Oct 19, 2020

TRIUMPH THROUGH TRAGEDY

Ask any group of football fans what triggers their gridiron passion and they’ll point to a specific memory. It may be the first morning of crisp fall air after a...