ECU News Services Archives

Jun 15, 2011
  • ECU News Services

ECU alumna retires from National Portrait Gallery

East Carolina University alumna Beverly Cox celebrated her retirement after 43 years with the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. this month, and several fellow Pirates were there to...

Jun 15, 2011
  • ECU News Services

Lifelong Learning Program summer class examines Kerouac, Beat Generation

East Carolina University’s Lifelong Learning Program will present “Satori in Rocky Mount: Jack Kerouac’s Carolina Road,” a class on the Beat Generation and Jack Kerouac’s role in it, June 21...

Jun 14, 2011
  • ECU News Services

Grant supports digital access project at Joyner Library

The State Library Division of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources announced today an award of $104,719 to Joyner Library at East Carolina University for the third year of...

Jun 14, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

Officials break ground on Children’s Hospital addition

A major hospital addition will help make sure sick and injured children in eastern North Carolina have access to the expertise, equipment and facilities to help and heal them. That...

Jun 14, 2011
  • ECU News Services

ECU, UHS to operate cancer center jointly

East Carolina University and University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina have launched a collaboration to provide coordinated outpatient cancer services through the Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center. Services that UHS...

Jun 14, 2011
  • Rachel Castro

ECU 101: Orientation to the Pirate nation

Call it the formal hello — the time each year when the newest Pirates take a measure of their first home away from home and sample what life is like...

Jun 14, 2011
  • ECU News Services

ECU English professor retires after 42 years of teaching

East Carolina University English professor Roger C. Schlobin has retired after a combined 42 years of teaching at ECU, The Ohio State University and Purdue University. Schlobin is one of...

Jun 13, 2011
  • ECU News Services

Bergstrom inducted as ACNM Fellow

Dr. Linda Bergstrom, a former faculty member in the ECU College of Nursing, was one of ten inducted as a fellow of the American College of  Nurse-Midwives at the organization's...

Jun 13, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

New doctors boost children’s kidney transplants

Fifteen-year-old Dakota Widdows of Swansboro has a new kidney and a new outlook on life. Thanks to a renewed transplant program at East Carolina University and Pitt County Memorial Hospital,...

Jun 10, 2011
  • ECU News Services

Minges remembered as supporter

Tom Minges, 56, of Greenville, died Thursday, June 9 of an apparent heart attack. Friends and local officials recalled him as devoted to community, to ECU and to his family....