ECU News Services Archives

Jan 04, 2006
  • ECU News Services

ECU to mark MLK day with Tutu lecture, volunteerism

GREENVILLE, NC - The daughter of famed South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu will visit Greenville in observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. Naomi Tutu will speak at 7 p.m.,...

Dec 30, 2005
  • Doug Boyd

Food literacy training begins Jan. 21

People who want to know more about healthful eating and food preparation can enroll in the Food Literacy Partners training program that begins Jan. 21. This free program teaches participants...

Dec 29, 2005
  • Doug Boyd

Gift endows lecture series at Brody School of Medicine

A new endowed lecture series that honors a pioneering neurosurgeon will bring top medical speakers to the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. The series will honor Dr....

Dec 28, 2005
  • Crystal Baity

ECU faculty member awarded $1.4 million NIH grant to study dizziness, imbalance

An East Carolina University associate professor has been awarded a five-year, $1.4 million research grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue her study into the role genes may...

Dec 20, 2005
  • ECU News Services

Wetherington named university attorney

Kitty H. Wetherington, who has served as interim university attorney at East Carolina University since March, has been named university attorney, effective immediately. Chancellor Steve Ballard said, “Kitty Wetherington has...

Dec 19, 2005
  • ECU News Services

NYC’S 92ND St. art center honors ECU’s Ebendorf

East Carolina University artist Robert Ebendorf was recently honored for leadership and achievement in American art by New York City's prestigious 92nd Street Y Art Center. Ebendorf was one of...

Dec 09, 2005
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EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY GRADUATES 2,200 STUDENTS

About 2,200 candidates graduated Saturday from East Carolina University. Phil Dixon, former chair of the East Carolina University Board of Trustees and a noted Greenville attorney and civic leader, was...

Dec 08, 2005
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

Research shows chemotherapy after surgery helps endometrial cancer patients

A new study, led by an ECU physician, shows that giving two chemotherapy drugs to women with advanced endometrial cancer after surgery reduces the risk of recurrence by 29 percent...

Dec 08, 2005
  • Crystal Baity

Ensley elected to three-year term on North Carolina Humanities Council

East Carolina University faculty member Donald E. Ensley has been elected to a three-year term on the North Carolina Humanities Council. Ensley is assistant vice chancellor for community engagement at...

Dec 07, 2005
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Fort Bragg education center offers classes on base, during deployment

The next time Alberto Morrison deploys for Iraq, his business courses from East Carolina University will go with him. Based in Fort Bragg, Morrison is working toward a bachelor’s degree...