ECU News Services Archives

Jul 19, 2012
  • Crystal Baity

LEADERSHIP POSITIONS

East Carolina University’s Board of Trustees welcomed a new board member and elected officers to one-year terms on the 13-member governing body July 19. M. Justin Davis, ECU’s new Student...

Jul 19, 2012
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ECU surgeons perform new type of heart valve replacement

GREENVILLE, N.C.   (July 19, 2012)   —   Doctors in eastern North Carolina are perfecting a new method for replacing worn out heart valves that promises less pain and faster...

Jul 19, 2012
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Perdue to swim in London Olympics

Lauren Perdue, daughter of ECU faculty member Tammy Perdue (Nursing) is swimming in the London Olympic games as one of four women on the 800 M free relay event. She...

Jul 18, 2012
  • Doug Boyd

NIH-FUNDED RESEARCH

Research by an East Carolina University scientist could lead to a better understanding of how testicular cancer develops as well as give insight into how stem cells could be used...

Jul 17, 2012
  • Doug Boyd

Early cell development could hold key to testicular cancer

GREENVILLE, N.C.   (July 17, 2012)   —   Research by an East Carolina University scientist could lead to a better understanding of how testicular cancer develops as well as give...

Jul 17, 2012
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Eight ECU women selected for BRIDGES 2012

Eight East Carolina University professors will participate in 2012 BRIDGES, an academic leadership program for women sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Selected were Rebecca Dumlao,...

Jul 16, 2012
  • Melanie Jock

THINKING ON THEIR FEET

Guitar in hand, Brazil native Sabrina Calado stood in the multipurpose room of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Greenville. Smiling, she waited for her audience to arrive. “I’m excited,” Calado...

Jul 15, 2012
  • Kathryn Kennedy

COMMON CORE

Faculty from East Carolina University’s College of Education and the College of Arts and Sciences will spend the next two weeks helping local teachers craft curriculum to meet new classroom...

Jul 14, 2012
  • Kathryn Kennedy

A NEW CHALLENGE

The inaugural Shelton Leadership Challenge at East Carolina University opened Sunday with a welcome from the camp’s namesake – former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and retired U.S....

Jul 13, 2012
  • Doug Boyd

OVERCOMING ROADBLOCKS

An East Carolina University scientist has received a patent for a discovery that could make certain vaccines safer for people with weakened immune systems and could make all vaccines of...