Historic gift funds teacher scholarships
A new scholarship at the ECU College of Education will award $5,000 a year to outstanding incoming freshmen and graduate students who wish to become, or already are, classroom elementary...
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ECU=environmentally conscious university
ECU is one of the nation’s most environmentally responsible colleges, according to the Princeton Review’s Guide to Green Colleges for 2021. ECU is one of 416 institutions that has demonstrated...
ECU part of effort to develop global, high-speed research network
Creating a research data superhighway across the Atlantic Ocean is the focus of a collaborative project that includes ECU. Researchers at ECU and George Mason University have received a $463,256...
Campus buildings named for Eakin, Ballard
ECU renamed two campus buildings for former chancellors Steve Ballard and Richard Eakin during a ceremony Nov. 6. The Student Recreation Center is now the Richard R. and JoAnn M....
ECU-tested COVID-19 treatment receives authorization
An ECU infectious disease specialist at Vidant Medical Center was among the first to trial a COVID-19 antibody treatment that in November was granted an emergency use authorization by the...
Warehouse district gets new name, plan for future
ECU’s millennial campus in Greenville’s former warehouse district has a new name and master plan. Designated Intersect East, the property covers 19 acres between Main Campus and Dickinson Avenue, including...
Women in STEM thrive at ECU
ECU’s work to address gender inequality has received a major boost in the form of a three-year, $999,074 grant from the National Science Foundation. Interim Chancellor Ron Mitchelson is the...
Students give back during alternative spring break
Gusty winds blew across the Making Pitt Fit Community Garden off County Home Road south of Greenville in March as ECU students Tasha Spencer and Garrett Hope prepped planting beds...
Gifts totaling $350,000 to benefit student veterans
Helping student veterans succeed is the goal of two recent donations to ECU totaling $350,000. The gifts will help the Student Veteran Services office in the ECU Division of Student...
Engineering students work on wastewater project with Greenville Utilities
Holly Whitmyer was among seven students last fall and this spring tasked with a real-world project that could help the environment as well as the Greenville Utilities Commission and its...