ECU News Services Archives

May 05, 2006
  • ECU News Services

ECU graduates 3,000

GREENVILLE, NC —   Sen. Mark Basnight urged the graduates of East Carolina University Saturday to use their degrees to serve their communities. “You are our stars; you are our...

May 04, 2006
  • ECU News Services

Jarvis medal awarded to Dr. Andrew Best

East Carolina University will award the Jarvis Medal, its highest service honor, to Dr. Andrew Best, a pioneering Greenville physician, at the university’s spring commencement Saturday. Best, who died in...

Apr 30, 2006
  • ECU News Services

Garrie Moore to step down as head of student life

Dr. Garrie W. Moore, vice chancellor for student life at East Carolina University, announced today (April 4) that he will step down from that position and become a special assistant...

Apr 27, 2006
  • ECU News Services

Study examines hurricanes and coastal ecosystems

CHAPEL HILL, NC —   The spate of hurricanes that hit North Carolina over the last ten years left behind ecological effects that lasted long after flood waters receded, according...

Apr 27, 2006
  • Doug Boyd

Silent, stunning Chernobyl stirs emotions for ECU group

KIEV, UKRAINE  —   A group from East Carolina University traveled today to the site of the world's worst nuclear meltdown and the deserted towns nearby and came away with...

Apr 27, 2006
  • ECU News Services

DOWDY TO JOIN ECU AS ADVANCEMENT LEADER

GREENVILLE, NC   —   Michael B. "Mickey" Dowdy, chief development officer of the Medical Campus at Virginia Commonwealth University, has been named vice chancellor for university advancement at East...

Apr 26, 2006
  • Doug Boyd

Chernobyl tragedy, lessons remembered in Ukraine

KIEV, UKRAINE  —   Twenty years after the world's worst nuclear disaster, citizens here in the capital of Ukraine call the event a "catastrophe" but add that nuclear power is...

Apr 26, 2006
  • ECU News Services

ECU geographer to study latino migration with NSF grant

GREENVILLE, NC  —   An East Carolina University professor of geography received at $430,000 National Science Foundation grant to study how the Latino presence in eastern North Carolina affects the...

Apr 26, 2006
  • ECU News Services

Professor selected for academic fellowship in Israel

GREENVILLE, NC —   Mark Jones, a professor of criminal justice studies at East Carolina University, will travel to Israel this summer as a fellow with the Foundation for the...

Apr 25, 2006
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

Golf tournament to raise funds to benefit ECU transplant surgery program

GREENVILLE —   The family of a man who benefited from a kidney transplant in 1998 plans to hold its first golf tournament to honor his memory and to raise...