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March 2019

#ECUHonors Student Advocacy for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Briana Waters checks in from a spring break spent advocating for public health issues in the capital.  “I hope you all had a wonderful spring break! Myself, Rachel Burke, Alex […]

 3/25/2019

ECU’s Women in Computer Science Wins PearlHacks Hackathon

ECU’s Women in Computer Science organization, founded by EC Scholar Tiffany Nguyen, recently won PearlHacks, a weekend-long hackathon (computer programming) for female and non-binary college students held at UNC-Chapel Hill. […]

 3/11/2019

EC Scholar Takes 2nd in 2019 Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge

Two EC Scholar-founded startups took top places in the final round of this year’s Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge (PEC), the Miller School of Entrepreneurship’s signature business pitch competition. SweetSip finished in […]

 3/11/2019

February 2019

ECU Honors Sweeps Up 2019 Wright Leadership Award

Congratulations to #ECUHonors seniors William Taylor and Austen Allen and EC Scholars Ashley Weingartz, Michael Denning, and Meghan Lower on receiving the Robert H. Wright Leadership Award, the most prestigious […]

 2/20/2019

January 2019

Help Health4PINE Win $1M in Seed Funding!

ECU’s Hult Prize Challenge winner Health for People in Need Everywhere (Health4PINE), a nonprofit founded by EC Scholar Pranaya Pakala, needs your help and support leading up to the regional […]

 1/30/2019

Passion for Robotics

Pirate has international impact through internship This article was originally published by ECU News Services on January 16, 2019 by Matt Smith. Photos by Matt Smith. Meghan’s involvement with Pitt […]

 1/20/2019

July 2018

ECU alum named UNC Presidential Scholar for 2018-2019

Accolades and awards are not foreign to recent East Carolina University graduate, EC Scholar, and Robert Wright Award winner Will Zahran (class of 2018). Now, the biology major and business […]

 7/24/2018

August 2017

Chancellor Staton and Local Entrepreneur Tracz to Speak at Honors Convocation

The Honor College at East Carolina University will host its annual convocation Thursday, Aug. 31, inside Wright Auditorium, featuring ECU Chancellor Cecil Staton and local entrepreneur Dennis Tracz. Following remarks from […]

 8/29/2017

July 2017

Poster Scholars

 7/28/2017

ECU Honors College Alumnus Named NC Presidential Scholar

Greenville native and East Carolina University graduate Katie Stanley (Class of 2017) was one of four recent graduates named a Presidential Scholar for the 2017-18 school year by the University […]

 7/21/2017