News Archives

Jun 14, 2018
  • Rob Spahr

CAMP RAINBOW AND CAMP HOPE

Memphis Gautier sometimes can’t do things that most other kids his age take for granted, such as going to summer camp. The 11-year-old Calypso, N.C. resident has severe hemophilia A,...

Jun 14, 2018
  • Angela Todd

BEGINS JULY 1

All forms of tobacco use will be prohibited within 100 feet of buildings on East Carolina University’s main campus and everywhere on its health sciences campus under a new tobacco...

Dr. Motaleb views the bacteria that cause Lyme disease through a microscope
Jun 08, 2018
  • Jules Norwood

TICK SEASON

Researchers at East Carolina University, with funding from the National Institutes of Health, have declared open season on the bacteria that cause Lyme disease. While rarely fatal, Lyme disease can...

ECU Chancellor Cecil Staton, along with presidents and representatives from 14 eastern North Carolina community colleges, signed a co-admission agreement during a ceremony on June 5. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Jun 06, 2018
  • Jules Norwood

BREAKING BARRIERS

East Carolina University and 14 community colleges in the surrounding region have signed a co-admission agreement designed to improve transfer student access and success through a collaborative degree completion program....

Jun 05, 2018
  • Rob Spahr

NURSING EXCELLENCE

A nurse manager in adult and pediatric health care has been selected by her peers as the 2018 Nurse of the Year at ECU Physicians, the medical practice of the...

Jun 04, 2018
  • ECU News Services

GENEROUS GIFT

ECU and Vidant Health are partnering to create two senior faculty positions in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at ECU’s Brody School of Medicine. The positions are being funded...

Allison Mills puts headphones on Garrett Lamm as she prepares him for a free hearing screening. (Photos by Rhett Butler)
Jun 01, 2018
  • Rich Klindworth
  • Rob Spahr

BETTER HEARING AND SPEECH

The ECU College of Allied Health Sciences’ Speech-Language & Hearing Clinic wanted to do more than simply raise awareness about hearing and speech problems during Better Hearing and Speech Month...

May 30, 2018
  • Crystal Baity

ECU named top university for international students

East Carolina University has been named a top university for international students in an inaugural list released on May 30. ECU is one of 181 public and private national universities...

May 30, 2018
  • ECU News Services

ECU names interim vice chancellor for health sciences

ECU Chancellor Cecil Staton announced today that he has named an interim vice chancellor for the university’s Division of Health Sciences. Dr. Mark Stacy, dean of ECU’s Brody School of...

From left, Morgan Watkins, Dr. Tarek Abdel-Salam (advisor), Andrew Grena, Jameson Morris and Evan Diener (sitting). Not pictured: Tanner Guin. (Contributed photos)
May 25, 2018
  • Michael Rudd

HUMAN EXPLORATION

Five College of Engineering and Technology students recently competed and won third place in the 2018 Human Exploration Rover Challenge. The April event, which was held in Huntsville, Alabama, was...