News Archives

Sep 30, 2024
  • Misun Hur

Farmworker Research Published

Dr. Misun Hur’s research about H-2A migrant farmworker’s housing isolation and its impacts on mental health and quality of life is published* in the Journal of Rural Mental Health, published...

Sep 21, 2024
  • Misun Hur

2024 APA Outstanding Student Award

Isabella Sardina, Class of 2024, with a Bachelor of Science in Community and Regional Planning, is a recipient of the 2023-2024 American Planning Association (APA) Outstanding Student Award. The APA...

Sep 15, 2024
  • Misun Hur

Kaylie Williams summer internship

Kaylie William completed an internship program with the Wilson County Development Services Department through the Wilson County Development Services Internship Program. Kaylie is a senior undergraduate student pursuing a BS...

Sep 05, 2024
  • Misun Hur

2024 Kick-Off

The Community and Regional Planning program and the SPAN hosted the 2024 Kick-Off event on September 4, 2024, at the Walter G. Fields III Planning Lab.

Aug 30, 2024
  • ECU News Service
  • Misun Hur

Making difference in the community: Cooper Hilbert’s summer internship

ECU News Service featured a story, Students research broadband access for rural, low-income eastern North Carolina communities, including Cooper Hilbert's summer internship experiences with HarvestBeam, Inc., a broadband startup company to...

Aug 29, 2024
  • Kylie Tannenbaum

My Seoul Soul: Study abroad reflection

Story by Kylie Tannenbaum, 2024 Kylie Tannenbaum is a graduate student pursuing an M.S. in Planning and Development. She is a recipient of the 2024 Thomas W. Rivers Foreign Exchange...

Jul 01, 2024
  • Misun Hur

2024 Summer Study Abroad

Sustainable Urbanism in South Korea May 13, 2024 - May 27, 2024 Six Planning students (three undergraduates and three graduate students) joined the Sustainable Urbanism in South Korea Summer Study...

Apr 30, 2024
  • Merrill Flood

The Big Ending

Eight BS in Community and Regional Planning program students successfully presented their capstone practicum projects from PLAN4099: Planning Practicum (instructor: Prof. Merrill Flood, Planner-in-Residence) on April 30, 2024, at ECU’s...

Apr 22, 2024
  • Misun Hur

Pirates in Minneapolis

The Student Planners Action Network (SPAN) raised over $6,000 to sponsor nine students to attend the National American Planning Association Conference (NPC24) in Minneapolis between April 13-16, 2024. This marks...

Apr 19, 2024
  • Misun Hur

Commemorate Jane Jacobs: Sharing unspoken local stories

Jane Jacobs Walks are free, self-organized walks led by committed citizens sharing their knowledge about and love for places. Jane Jacobs’s ten big ideas have been promoted by planners for maintaining livable and...