Pioneer Part 2
When the “magnet in his backside” began to pull Michael Basnight ’95 back home to Roanoke Island, he had built a successful career in medical technology sales thousands of miles...
Summer 2025 Archives
A Journalism Journey
The East Carolinian, East Carolina University’s student-run newspaper, has had several names and operated from different campus buildings. But its core mission — to provide real-world media training for students...
Two Decades Strong
In the fall of 2003, a large class of incoming medical students was joined for the first time by a smaller group of advanced degree candidates studying human health through...
The Blueprint
Somewhere above the shifting sands of the Outer Banks, a drone hums in the Atlantic winds, documenting the migration of North Carolina’s fragile barrier islands. On the state’s coastal plain,...
5 minutes with JESSICA LEIF ’97
Position: Associate director of the Imaging and Radiation Oncology Core – Houston Quality Assurance Center and senior medical physicist at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Degree: Master’s...
Tennis seniors leave lasting legacy
The ECU women’s tennis senior class of Ines Bachir, Anne Lou Champion, Martina Muzzolon and Isabella Rivera Ortiz came from around the world to Greenville not knowing each other or...
Gold standard
Will Lukas Hometown: Cary, North Carolina Major: Communication with a concentration in interpersonal and organizational communication Career goal: A marketing and communications role Scholarship: Michael Aho Communication Excellence Scholarship What...
Donor support burns brightly during Pirate Nation Gives
More than 2,300 alumni, friends and students supported East Carolina University during Pirate Nation Gives on March 5. Student success was the priority of the ninth annual day of giving...