ECU News Services Archives

May 30, 2008
  • ECU News Services

ECU to offer free online courses for students affected by Katrina

East Carolina University will offer free online courses to students affected by Hurricane Katrina as part of a national relief campaign. ECU, UNC-Greensboro and Appalachian State University are the three...

May 29, 2008
  • Crystal Baity

High school students, future health care leaders from across state attend conference at ECU

More than 250 high school students from across North Carolina are expected this weekend at the ninth annual Future Leaders in Health Care conference to be held at East Carolina...

May 29, 2008
  • ECU News Services

ECU Professor to study bioterrorism in China

An East Carolina University environmental health professor will visit China this week to gain an international perspective on the burgeoning threat of bioterrorism. Alice Anderson, who teaches in ECU’s College...

May 28, 2008
  • ECU News Services

Fitness focus of state health plan grant

When it comes to long-term health care, preventive medicine doesn’t come in a pill. Its dosage is in a daily walk, a bike ride, or a game of tennis. It’s...

May 28, 2008
  • ECU News Services

ECU’s ITCS receives national recognition

East Carolina University’s technology team will receive top honors June 2 from the Computerworld Honors Program, the foundation of a leading technology publication. ECU’s data storage team, housed in the...

May 28, 2008
  • ECU News Services

NCDOT installs signs for ECU on Interstates

The N.C. Department of Transportation will install new directional signs to East Carolina University along I-95 and U.S. 64. The Board of Transportation approved this project Jan. 6. The signs...

May 23, 2008
  • Doug Boyd

Two named master educators at Brody for 2008

Drs. Robert Lust and Robert Tanenberg have been named master educators for 2008 at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. Lust, a professor of physiology, has a...

May 23, 2008
  • Doug Boyd

Internal medicine research day to be May 29

The annual research day in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University has been named for longtime faculty member Dr. Yash P....

May 22, 2008
  • ECU News Services

Garden party set for Country Doctor Museum’s 40th anniversary

The Country Doctor Museum will host a springtime garden party from 1-4 p.m. Saturday, May 31. The museum turns 40 this year. Museum staff has planted, mulched and prepared the...

May 22, 2008
  • Doug Boyd

New antibody offers hope for treating ovarian, breast cancer

A discovery by an East Carolina University pathologist might be a breakthrough in an evolving class of drugs used to fight cancer. Dr. Anne Kellogg has developed a monoclonal antibody...