ECU News Services Archives

Jun 06, 2005
  • Doug Boyd

Local students to participate in health careers program

Twenty-two rising 10th graders from across eastern North Carolina have been selected to participate in the 12th annual Ventures Into Health Careers Institute at East Carolina University. The two-week program...

Jun 03, 2005
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

Camps allow sick children to just be kids

Each year children with cancer, hemophilia and sickle-cell disease are invited to special camps designed to accommodate their medical needs while still allowing them to enjoy being kids. Sponsored by...

May 28, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU Offers Security Studies program

A new security studies program at East Carolina University has already drawn interest from dozens of students. Combining elements from the departments of political science, environmental health, planning, public administration...

May 27, 2005
  • ECU News Services

New technology helps patients with esophageal cancer

The photodynamic therapy team at the Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center added to its list of accomplishments recently by treating a patient with esophageal cancer. A 76-year-old woman became the...

May 25, 2005
  • Crystal Baity

Physical therapy clinic opens at Firetower Medical Office

ECU Physical Therapy, a new outpatient orthopedic physical therapy clinic, has opened at ECU Physicians Firetower Medical Office on Fire Tower Road in Winterville. The clinic, owned by East Carolina...

May 24, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU FACULTY AWARDED SEED GRANTS TO FURTHER RESEARCH

East Carolina University’s Division of Research and Graduate Studies awarded $550,000 in grants to 23 professors last month under the new Research Development Grant Program. The grants will enable ECU...

May 23, 2005
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

Novick to lead MPH program at ECU

A nationally known public health expert is joining the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University to lead the Division of Community Health and Preventive Medicine and the master's...

May 23, 2005
  • ECU News Services

Hughes selected for national leadership program

Karla Hughes, dean of the College of Human Ecology at East Carolina University, has been selected to participate in the American Council on Education Fellows Program for 2005-2006. The ACE...

May 19, 2005
  • Crystal Baity

Occupational therapy faculty to serve at White House Conference on Aging

Dr. Anne Dickerson, professor and chairman of the Department of Occupational Therapy in the School of Allied Health Sciences at East Carolina University, has been appointed as a delegate to...

May 18, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU archeologist returns to jordan through research grants

ECU archeologist Megan Perry has spent the past few months combing burial sites in the Middle Eastern kingdom of Jordan. Armed with a grant from the Joukowsky Family Foundation and...