ECU News Services Archives

Mar 31, 2008
  • ECU News Services

ECU welcomes new police chief

Scott Shelton remembers community policing long before anyone thought to call it that. It’s an approach to campus law enforcement that has brought him 31 years of success at the...

Mar 28, 2008
  • Doug Boyd

Two ECU medical students receive fellowships to work in Africa

Two third-year medical students from East Carolina University will spend three months working in the Gabon, Africa, hospital that humanitarian and physician Albert Schweitzer established. Marie Rowe and Nicolaus Glomb...

Mar 28, 2008
  • Doug Boyd

Magazine ranks ECU among top primary care medical schools

The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University is ranked among the top medical schools in the country that emphasize primary care, according to the annual listing of the...

Mar 28, 2008
  • ECU News Services

ECU celebrates centennial

The East Carolina spirit arrived at Wright Auditorium March 27 in song, speech and award. In honor of the campus’s centennial celebration, more than 100 faculty, staff, and students were...

Mar 25, 2008
  • ECU News Services

Research and Creative Activity recipients announced

East Carolina University has named two recipients of the 2008 Research and Creative Activity Awards. Margaret Bauer, the Rives Chair of Southern Literature in ECU’s English Department, and Ron Cortright,...

Mar 20, 2008
  • Doug Boyd

ECU sends 66 percent into primary care residencies

Nearly two-thirds of the medical students graduating from East Carolina University this spring will enter primary care residencies. Those are the results of the annual Match Day, celebrated today amid...

Mar 20, 2008
  • ECU News Services

ECU holds Youth Arts Festival

East Carolina University will host the fourth annual Youth Arts Festival Saturday, April 5. The festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the "mall" area in...

Mar 19, 2008
  • Doug Boyd

Medical students ready for annual Match Day on Thursday

Graduating East Carolina University medical students will learn where they will spend the next few years as doctors-in-training during the annual Match Day at noon Thursday, March 20, in the...

Mar 15, 2008
  • ECU News Services

ECU hosts Jarvis Lecture

A biblical archeologist will be the speaker for the 16th annual Jarvis Lecture on Christianity and Culture, 7:30 p.m. March 31 at the Harvey Banquet Hall at ECU’s Murphy Center....

Mar 13, 2008
  • Crystal Baity

Smokers can learn how to quit beginning April 8

Welcome spring by kicking the habit through an ECU Physicians eight-week smoking cessation program beginning April 8. Called "Freedom from Smoking," the eight-week class will cover smoking facts, ways to...