ECU News Services Archives

Nov 02, 2011
  • ECU News Services

ECU Whichard professor awarded $240,000 NEH grant

 East Carolina University professor Dr. Gary A. Stringer received a $240,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for his project, “An Edition of John Donne’s Songs and Sonnets...

Nov 02, 2011
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Hoyers quoted in Chicago Sun-Times

ECU physician Dr. Bob Hoyer and his wife, Anne Hoyer, an ECU nurse, were quoted in a Chicago Sun-Times article about their son, Jed Hoyer, the new Chicago Cubs general...

Nov 01, 2011
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Carolina Ale House fulfills donation promise to ECU Department of Hospitality Management

Greenville’s new Carolina Ale House made good on its promise to donate 10 percent of its first week’s profits to East Carolina University’s Department of Hospitality Management. Mindy Amerson, corporate...

Nov 01, 2011
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Pirate Read event set for Nov. 2

A Pirate Read event, "Triumph over Tragedy" featuring Bobby Petrocelli will be held at 4 p.m. Nov. 2 in Hendrix Theatre. Petrocelli is a motivational speaker inspired by his own...

Nov 01, 2011
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Campbell to speak Nov. 3

The Friends of Joyner Library at East Carolina University will present "Confessions of a North Carolina Centrist" with Tom Campbell at 7 p.m. Nov. 3 at the First Presbyterian Church...

Oct 28, 2011
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Article published by Business faculty

An article by East Carolina University marketing and supply chain management faculty Shirley Mai and Haozhe Chen, "Primary product network size on complementary product sales, Moderating effects of customer characteristics,"...

Dr. Bobby Jones, left, plays mandolin as his brother, Dr. Stephen Jones listens at Bobby Jones' home in Shelby. (Photo by Doug Boyd)
Oct 28, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

Doctoring is a family tradition for the Joneses

A career spent working as a family doctor, teaching medical students and supporting the medical school at East Carolina University was recognized Friday at ECU’s new Family Medicine Center. Dr....

Oct 28, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

Doctoring is a family tradition for the Joneses

A career spent working as a family doctor, teaching medical students and supporting the medical school at East Carolina University was recognized Friday at ECU's new Family Medicine Center. Dr....

At left, Shanna Daniels, QAR project conservator steadies the cannon while Lawrence Babits, center, director of the ECU maritime studies program, and Charles Bowdoin, an ECU student at right, work to position the cannon on a block in the holding tank at ECU's QAR Conservation Lab. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Oct 28, 2011
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

QAR lab preserves Blackbeard’s treasures

A few hours after underwater archaeologists plucked one of four large anchors from the wreck of Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge in the waters near Beaufort Inlet in May, a tourist...

Oct 27, 2011
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Peter Makuck Featured in Poetry Reading Nov. 1

Peter Makuck, distinguished professor emeritus at ECU, returns to campus Nov. 1 for a poetry reading and discussion of uses of nature in writing poetry. In 1978, Makuck founded Tar...