ECU News Services Archives

Oct 24, 2012
  • Kathryn Kennedy

CHANGING DIRECTION

Everywhere Gordon Beverly III goes, he sees things that could be improved through engineering: the unorganized flow of checkout lines at some fast food restaurants or buses taking numerous left...

Oct 24, 2012
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

STADIUM DAMAGE

UPDATE OCT. 24, 2012: East Carolina University has completed its review and announced today that William James Banks is no longer enrolled at the university, effective Oct. 22, 2012. Banks...

Oct 24, 2012
  • ECU News Services

ECU biology professor publishes on horizontal gene transfer

  An article by ECU biology professor Jinling Huang, with co-authors, appeared in the latest issue of the online publication Nature Communications. According to a press release from the online...

Oct 24, 2012
  • ECU News Services

Justice Henry Frye to keynote anniversary of desegregation event

Oct 24, 2012
  • ECU News Services

U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey coming to ECU for reading

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey, the United States Poet Laureate, will visit East Carolina University Oct. 25 as part of the university’s Contemporary Writers Series. She is the author of...

Oct 23, 2012
  • Kathryn Kennedy

‘EARLY ASSURANCE’

Incoming freshmen interested in careers in audiology and physical therapy can earn advance admittance to graduate school if accepted to two new programs offered through the Honors College at East...

Oct 23, 2012
  • ECU News Services

ECU team assists in search for missing teen

A team of East Carolina University anthropologists are assisting in the search for a missing teenager from Scotland Neck. Anthropology professors Dr. Megan Perry and Dr. Charles Ewen, along with...

Oct 22, 2012
  • ECU News Services

Obesity, diet expert to speak Nov. 28

Dr. Barry Popkin, W.R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Nutrition at UNC – Chapel Hill, will present “The world is fat: patterns, determinants, current controversies” from noon to 1 p.m....

Oct 19, 2012
  • Crystal Baity

HONORING PATRIOTS

A military scholarship in East Carolina University’s College of Allied Health Sciences has received a $10,000 donation.   The Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association made the donation to the Patriot Scholarship,...

Oct 19, 2012
  • Doug Boyd

SMARTPHONE APP

People with implanted cardiac defibrillators can have some peace-of-mind thanks to a new smartphone application developed by experts at East Carolina University. An ECU spin-off company, Quality of Life Applications,...