ECU News Services Archives

Oct 11, 2006
  • ECU News Services

ECU to develop tech-math lessons for NC high schools

GREENVILLE, NC   —   A $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation will enable East Carolina University to help public school teachers plan lessons that focus on business-related...

Oct 09, 2006
  • Crystal Baity

ECU seniors selected as nursing leadership interns

GREENVILLE  —   Two seniors have been selected as nursing leadership interns by the East Carolina Center for Nursing Leadership in the East Carolina University School of Nursing. Anthony Huang...

Oct 05, 2006
  • ECU News Services

UNC Board chair addresses ECU Trustees

GREENVILLE, NC —   Jim Phillips, chairman of the University North Carolina Board of Governors, urged East Carolina University’s leaders Friday to continue their commitment to the people who live...

Oct 03, 2006
  • Doug Boyd

ECU among top universities in getting innovations to public

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   East Carolina University ranks in the top-10 in five categories in a recent report that scores universities around the world on how well they turn their...

Sep 26, 2006
  • ECU News Services

Professors receive $158,000 grant to expand Asian Studies at East Carolina University

GREENVILLE, NC  —   The U.S. Department of Education has awarded EastCarolina University a $158,000 grant to develop and expand the university’s Asian Studies program. The two-year award allows for...

Sep 22, 2006
  • ECU News Services

ECU historian revisits GOP effort to give blacks vote

GREENVILLE, NC  —   In his new book, Charles Calhoun revisits the question of the role Republicans played to extend voting rights to blacks in the South during the years...

Sep 18, 2006
  • Crystal Baity

Opening celebration set for Sept. 22 at ECU’s new Health Sciences Building

GREENVILLE, N.C.   —   Chancellor Steve Ballard and the East Carolina University Board of Trustees will celebrate the opening of the $66 million Health Sciences Building at 11:30 a.m....

Sep 14, 2006
  • Doug Boyd

Grant of $800,000 to help fund community health center

GREENVILLE, N.C.   —   An $800,000 federal grant will help fund operating costs for a local community health center set to open in December. The James D. Bernstein Community...

Sep 11, 2006
  • ECU News Services

ECU host Third Eastern North Carolina Literary Homecoming

Authors and readers from North Carolina will convene at East Carolina University Sept. 29-30 for the Third Eastern North Carolina Literary Homecoming. The annual free event, offered by ECU’s J.Y....

Sep 09, 2006
  • ECU News Services

ECU Reduces petroleum consumption on campus

GREENVILLE, NC  —   East Carolina University has taken another step to reduce petroleum product consumption on campus by using to re-refined motor oil for vehicles. “Re-refining is the reuse...