ECU News Services Archives

Dec 06, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

Grant to help ECU blend behavioral, general health care

A federal grant of nearly $800,000 will help East Carolina University provide more coordinated care to patients with multiple health needs. The five-year, $799,876 grant from the federal Health Resources...

At far left, Dr. Brock Niceler, clinical assistant professor of family medicine at the Brody School of Medicine, performs a test for neurological wellness with a Rose High football player during afternoon practice. ECU graduate student Becky Grant, center, an athletic trainer assigned to Rose High School, looks on during the procedure. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Dec 05, 2011
  • Kathy Muse

Playing Safe

When a North Pitt High School athlete is injured in competition, the first person rushing on the field is not the team’s coach or a worried parent. It is Jeff...

Dec 02, 2011
  • ECU News Services

ECU eye-tracking research examines gaze changes while viewing art

Collaborative work by Dr. Cynthia Bickley-Green (Art Education) and Dr. Nicholas Murray (Kinesiology) examines the relation between vision, cognition and language by collecting eye-tracking data from individuals viewing art work....

Dec 02, 2011
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

AT THE TIPPING POINT

After more than 45 minutes of debate, the East Carolina University Board of Trustees, on a 7-5 split vote, proposed a tuition and fee increase for all students for the...

Dec 02, 2011
  • Crystal Baity

Collaboration helps international students better communicate with English-speaking peers

Before leaving Saudi Arabia for North Carolina, Suleiman Al-khalifah practiced English by watching TV shows and movies His favorites ranged from Peter Sellers’ classic comedy “Pink Panther” to the action-packed...

Dec 02, 2011
  • Crystal Baity

WELL-SPOKEN

Before leaving Saudi Arabia for North Carolina, Suleiman Al-khalifah practiced English by watching TV shows and movies. His favorites ranged from Peter Sellers’ classic comedy “Pink Panther” to the action-packed...

Dec 02, 2011
  • Joy Holster

Military Connections

The Victory Bell at East Carolina University sounded 140 times on Nov. 11, each chime commemorating the military service of one individual. At the ECU Veterans Day celebration, those individual...

Dec 01, 2011
  • ECU News Services

SEANC District 65 members create Christmas trees for service project

Dec 01, 2011
  • ECU News Services

SEANC District 65 members create Christmas trees for service project

Dr. Hope Landrine, first director of the ECU Center for Health Disparities Research, will work collaboratively with ECU faculty and staff to examine and work toward reducing health disparities (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Dec 01, 2011
  • ECU News Services

ERASING INEQUITIES

Growing up just outside the Bronx, Dr. Hope Landrine witnessed the damage that chronic diseases wreaked upon her community. “Everyone was sick,” she recalled. Landrine knew she wanted to do...