ECU News Services Archives

Jan 20, 2015
  • ECU News Services

Named to high school hall of fame

Tynita Butts, the record-setting high jumper on ECU’s track and field team who won the Penn Relays twice and was named an NCAA All-American six times, was inducted into her...

Jan 20, 2015
  • Kelly Setzer

ECU to host two public forums on Aycock naming

East Carolina University will host two public forums to gather feedback on the naming of Charles B. Aycock Residence Hall — one session focused on students’ opinions and the other...

ECU geology graduate student Adam Trevisan heads to a research site carrying an electromagnetic induction profiler, used to trace water impurities so ECU researchers can follow where groundwater is flowing underground. The work is part of a collaborative effort to examine water contaminants that may migrate from home septic systems. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Jan 20, 2015
  • Doug Boyd

‘EMERGING CONTAMINANTS’

Endocrine Disruption a Growing Threat Exposure to low-levels of some contaminants can cause disruption of endocrine functions, such as reproduction, in animals. This disruption occurs when the contaminants modulate, mimic...

Jan 15, 2015
  • Amy Adams Ellis

NOVEL APPROACH

Two East Carolina University researchers have received funding for a project that could lead to better quality of life for people living with chronic pain. Drs. Sonja Bareiss and Kori...

Jan 13, 2015
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ECU grad student lecturing at Sylvan Heights Bird Park

ECU biology graduate student Dustin Foote, assistant curator at Sylvan Heights Bird Park in Scotland Neck, will present a series of educational lectures monthly through 2015. Foote is a graduate...

Jan 13, 2015
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ECU student awarded scholarship for international conference

ECU master of social work student Jennifer Roofner won the Christian Hartline Scholarship to attend the International Eating Disorder Professionals 2015 Symposium in Phoenix, Arizona. The scholarship pays for conference...

Associate professor Rosana Ferreira, center, from ECU's Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, works with graduate student Mark Nissenbaum, left, and undergraduate Joel McAuliffe. A grant from the ECU Faculty Senate enabled Ferreira to create a virtual weather forecasting teaching laboratory (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Jan 13, 2015
  • Grace Haskin

SUPPORTING FELLOW TEACHERS

East Carolina University faculty who can generate creative, innovative ways of teaching course materials are eligible for grants offered by Teaching Grants Committee of ECU’s Faculty Senate. “The grants are...

Jan 13, 2015
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Polar Bear Plunge set for Jan. 22

The 19th Annual Polar Bear Plunge will be held at the Student Recreation Center at 7 p.m. Jan. 22. Registration begins at 6:30 p.m. and at 7 p.m., ECU students,...

Jan 13, 2015
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ECU events to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Two events at East Carolina University will honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The MLK Day of Service will begin at 9 a.m. Jan. 19...

Jan 09, 2015
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Visiting scholar headlines Collaborative Nursing Research Day

The 24th Annual Collaborative Nursing Research Day will be held from 8 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Feb. 13 at the East Carolina Heart Institute. The free event provides a venue...