ECU News Services Archives

Jun 22, 2011
  • ECU News Services

Grant supports Pitt County youth enrichment

A $5,000 grant will support academic and cultural enrichment activities for Pitt County youth at the Lucille W. Gorham Intergenerational Community Center, an East Carolina University partnership program. Provided by...

Jun 21, 2011
  • ECU News Services

New publications, appointments in Family Medicine

An article by Kathryn M. Kolasa and Lauren MacKenzie Whetstone (Family Medicine) with co-authors, “Effects of a Behavior-Based Weight Management Program Delivered through a State Cooperative Extension and Local Public...

Jun 21, 2011
  • ECU News Services

Smith named certified research administrator

Wendy B. Smith, grants and contracts administrator for the College of Allied Health Sciences, has received national recognition as a certified research administrator.  This certification requires a combination of formal...

Jun 21, 2011
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New appointments in Department of Physical Therapy

ECU physical therapy professors Blaise Williams, left, and Walter L. Jenkins were appointed to new roles in the American Physical Therapy Association. Williams was appointed co-chair of the newly-formed Running...

Jun 21, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

Treadwell to lead medical society

Dr. Edward Treadwell, a rheumatologist and professor of medicine at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, was installed as president of the Old North State Medical Society...

ECU elementary education graduate students who initiated the flat mascot exchange with Rollins College are, left to right, Beth Laughridge, Laura Wetherington, Sylvia Dieu and Stephanie Burress. (Photo by Kendra Alexander)
Jun 21, 2011
  • Joy Holster

ECU students blend technology, cardboard to engage learners

He’s flat. He’s purple. And he’s still somewhat sandy, but a cardboard pirate is all set to engage elementary school students with tales of his summer adventures. He’s “Flat Pee...

Joy Hahn, administrative support associate in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at ECU, tries out a new mini exercise bike that allows users to pedal while sitting at a desk. The bikes are part of an ECU research program on ways to offset the negative effects of sedentary work. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Jun 21, 2011
  • ECU News Services

ECU STUDY: Employees pedal while they work

For 50 ECU employees, work time will also be exercise time this summer. They will be pedaling under their desks, helping research ways to offset the effects of sedentary work....

Jun 20, 2011
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Teacher training to focus on new statewide standards in mathematics education

Public school teachers in Beaufort, Pitt and Hyde County will attend a professional development program on newly adopted state standards for mathematics education, June 20-23 at the Beaufort County Educational...

Jun 17, 2011
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90-year-old ECU alumnus setting triathlon records

Charlie Futrell, an ECU football and baseball player from 1938 to 1941 and an ECU sports hall of famer, is featured in an Orlando Sentinel story about his record-setting triathlon...

Jun 17, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

Camps let kids have fun despite illnesses

From sailing to snakes, talent shows to terrapins, a group of eastern North Carolina kids spent a week in June enjoying the experiences of summer camp – at least some...