Going the distance
For ECU distance runner Abrielle “Abi” Schweitzer, success comes from balance. A third-year student who completed her undergraduate degree this May, Schweitzer has spent her time at ECU navigating two...
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5 minutes with Wendy Perry ’82
Position: Owner, Aunt Dee Dee’s Kitchen; contributing recipes editor for Carolina Country magazine Degree: B.S., home economics education Resides: Zebulon, North Carolina Describe what you do Years ago, I anointed...
Scholarships empower futures
Joeroyal Evans ’15 always knew he wanted to work in hospitality management. At East Carolina University, an Aramark scholarship and an on-campus student manager job with the food service company...
ECU honors leaders in research, creative activity and innovation
Yong-Qing Li, professor of physics in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences, received the 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity during ECU’s annual...
Researchers named senior members of the National Academy of Inventors
Three longtime ECU faculty members have been named to the 2026 class of senior members of the National Academy of Inventors, joining more than 30 colleagues and researchers at the...
Grant expands access to teacher licensure, graduate education
The College of Education will expand access to teacher licensure and graduate education through the Kenan Residency to Master’s Fellows program with support of a $500,000 grant from the William...
A different kind of return
On a late winter morning, weighted with grief, 22-year-old Gage Outlaw of Faison walked onto campus and into his Brody Scholars interview carrying more than good transcripts and ambition up...
Students clean up at entrepreneurial challenge
A summer job pressure-washing homes might be turning into a full-time future. ECU student Sam Dewar and twin brothers Nick and Zach Willer won the Miller School of Entrepreneurship’s ninth...
Pickleball serves up community, social connections
Pickleball can be a connector, pairing ECU students with other students, faculty members and aging adults. A bonus for players: no phone required. “Pickleball is kind of my thing I...
Bracing for the next big one
When Hurricane Florence hit coastal North Carolina in 2018, it decided to stay awhile. The wind blew, and the rain fell for days. And though Cameron Doby didn’t experience major...