ECU News Services Archives

Dec 07, 2000
  • ECU News Services

Math teacher program receives national honor

The U.S. Department of Education announced today (Dec. 7) that East Carolina University is a winner of the department's new National Awards Program for Effective Teacher Preparation. In a ceremony...

Dec 07, 2000
  • ECU News Services

ECU math prep gets award

The U.S. Department of Education announced today (Dec. 7) that East Carolina University is a winner of the department's new National Awards Program for Effective Teacher Preparation. In a ceremony...

Dec 05, 2000
  • Doug Boyd

EastCare transport program named best of year

EastCare, the critical-care transport unit of Pitt County Memorial Hospital, has been named program of the year by the Association of Air Medical Services, the international body for air and...

Dec 01, 2000
  • ECU News Services

Mattamuskeet field station to close

With the federal government's shutdown of the Lake Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge lodge, East Carolina University is considering other ways to maintain its Field Station for Coastal Studies at the...

Nov 30, 2000
  • ECU News Services

Chancellor Makes Interim Health Sciences Appointments

East Carolina University Chancellor Richard R. Eakin has appointed two senior university officials to succeed on an interim basis Dr. James A. Hallock, vice chancellor for health sciences and dean...

Nov 22, 2000
  • ECU News Services

ECU gets novelist’s scrapbook on Africa

A scrapbook compiled by the late novelist Inglis Fletcher about her trip to Africa in 1928 has been added to an extensive collection of documents about the author kept at...

Nov 20, 2000
  • ECU News Services

ECU honor society to hold public debate on testing

On the heels of discussion by presidential and gubernatorial candidates on making schools accountable for what students learn, East Carolina University will sponsor a public debate on Monday, Nov. 27,...

Nov 17, 2000
  • ECU News Services

Chancellor Search Panel completes initial interviews

The Chancellor Search Committee at East Carolina University has completed an initial round of interviews with candidates and plans to narrow the field soon. The committee's initial series of interviews,...

Nov 14, 2000
  • Doug Boyd

Blue Cross and Blue Shield, ECU partner in major effort to help uninsured

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, the state's largest health insurer, and the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University announced a joint effort Nov. 14 to...

Nov 09, 2000
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

FDA approves second clinical trial for robotic heart surgery

Cardiac surgeons at University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina have been granted a second clinical trial from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to continue studying robotic surgery in the...