ECU News Services Archives

Balinda Ferree recognizes her father's handwriting on historic teletype she and husband John donated to Joyner Library. The original teletype outlines the events surrounding the Kennedy assassination on Nov. 22, 1963. More photos from the event are posted below. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Nov 23, 2011
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

JFK teletype pages donated to ECU

On Nov. 22, 1963, Balinda Ferree was 19 years old and working in her father’s radio station in High Point, WHPE. That same day, President John F. Kennedy and his...

Nov 22, 2011
  • Mary Schulken

ECU TUITION

East Carolina University’s trustees face a changed landscape this year, the board’s chairman said, as they consider how much to ask students to pay for a college education. “This is...

Nov 22, 2011
  • ECU News Services

ECU student honored for volunteer efforts

East Carolina University senior Sara Schach was one of 19 students statewide selected for the North Carolina Campus Compact’s Community Impact Student Award The award recognizes significant, innovative contributions to...

Nov 22, 2011
  • ECU News Services

Thanksgiving break to begin at ECU

East Carolina University will be closed Thursday and Friday for the Thanksgiving holidays. No classes will be held Wednesday, Nov. 23 through Sunday, Nov. 27. Classes will resume at 8...

Nov 22, 2011
  • ECU News Services

Thanksgiving break to begin at ECU

East Carolina University will be closed Thursday and Friday for the Thanksgiving holidays. No classes will be held Wednesday, Nov. 23 through Sunday, Nov. 27. Classes will resume at 8...

Lou Anna Hardee in ECU's College of Education has held numerous leadership positions in the Optimist Club of Greenville.(Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Nov 21, 2011
  • Judy Currin

PASSION AND LEADERSHIP

A stroll through the corridors at the Duke University Children’s Hospital changed the direction of Lou Anna Hardee’s life. Hardee was visiting her grandson, who at age 2 was fighting...

Nurturing a love of writing from an early age, freshman Kellah Jarvis published a novel before she ever arrived at East Carolina University. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Nov 21, 2011
  • Rachel Castro

TALENT AND AMBITION

Many elementary and middle school teachers use children’s books as guides and assigned reading for their students, but one East Carolina University freshman Teaching Fellow arrived having written her own....

Nov 18, 2011
  • Mary Schulken

ECU reviews lockdown response

East Carolina University officials are continuing to review the lockdown episode on the campus Wednesday, Nov. 16, to determine how the university can improve its response to such events. A...

Nov 17, 2011
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Biology professor honored with service award

ECU biology professor Robert Christian was honored with a Distinguished Service Award from the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation during the federation’s biennial conference in Daytona Beach. Christian served two...

Nov 17, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

Vascular imaging center receives reaccreditation

The Vascular Imaging Center at the East Carolina Heart Institute at East Carolina University has received national reaccreditation. The Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Vascular Laboratories has granted a...