Alumni News

Standing before family and friends, 2013 Elizabeth City State University graduate Brittany Whidbee took an oath to uphold the laws of North Carolina and the United States and became an official member of the North Carolina Bar Association. Inside the...

If you know 2013 Elizabeth City State University graduate Brittany Rice, then you may know that it won’t be long before she’s called Dr. Rice. The Viking alum is currently a first-year biomedical student at the University of Kentucky’s Kentucky...

By KRISTI LANGENBACHER Elizabeth City State University alumnus Valerie Edwards has come a long way from the “broken” teenager that she was before she applied to ECSU. This year Edwards is among a talented group of individuals on the 2016...

Shunafrica White wants to work with crash test dummies, testing automobiles. It’s the sort of job that works well with the Conyers, Georgia native’s motto: “Always prepare for the worst.” But Shunafrica isn’t just about crash test dummies. Her focus...

Warren Judge is Viking Pride in action. A commander in the United States Coast Guard, Judge was named executive officer of Coast Guard Base Elizabeth City this past year. His career is the stuff of Viking legend. A native of...

When Byron Coolie graduated from Elizabeth City State University in 2013, he left with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, with a minor in theatre. It was that minor that would play a significant role in shaping the 25-year-old New...

By Kesha Williams “You never stop learning.” That’s an impressive statement from Mary Albritton Douglas. Albritton Douglas, a scholar-educator, who was the valedictorian of her 1948 high school class at Washington Colored High School in Beaufort County, earned undergraduate and...

By Kesha Williams Joyce and Jean Bevins earned Bachelor of Science degrees in Computer Science in 2012 from ECSU, then entered Indiana University’s School of Informatics and Computing on full academic scholarships. To the delight of their grandmother, who raised...

By Kesha Williams If you thought you’d learned all you need to know about your smartphone, stand by. New services and features loaded on an array of mobile devices are just over the horizon. ECSU alumnus, Dr. Timothy Summers, says...