News Archives

Left to right, Warren Knudson, Shinya Ishizuka and Emily B. Askew conduct research at the Brody School of Medicine in search for treatments to alleviate arthritis symptoms. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Dec 09, 2014
  • Amy Adams Ellis

JOINT EFFORT

Researchers at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine have earned funding that could lead to pain relief and improved mobility for millions of people who suffer from osteoarthritis. Dr....

Dec 05, 2014
  • Doug Boyd

NOVEL THERAPEUTICS

An emerging relationship between East Carolina University and the University of North Carolina at Wilmington may yield ocean-bred therapeutics that target human diseases. The project is being led by Dan...

Dec 05, 2014
  • Crystal Baity

OPTIMAL BENEFITS

People who exercise following bariatric surgery gain health benefits beyond weight loss, according to researchers at East Carolina University, the University of Pittsburgh and Florida Hospital – Sanford-Burnham Translational Research...

Dec 02, 2014
  • Kathryn Kennedy

RURAL HEALTH RESOURCES

A community service learning center providing expert dental care to patients in and around Robeson County will soon open its doors – the fifth of its kind to open statewide...

Dec 01, 2014
  • ECU News Services

TRAVELING PANTRY

Operation Reentry North Carolina, based at East Carolina University, has partnered with grocer Food Lion to launch a mobile food pantry to help feed homeless and at-risk veterans in eastern...

ECU alumni John Bright, left, and Joe Hoyt are shown with an image of the German submarine they discovered using location techniques Bright developed. (Photo by Brandi Carrier, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management)
Nov 25, 2014
  • Steve Tuttle

‘FORGOTTEN STORIES’

Two East Carolina University alumni were the principal investigators in the Oct. 21 discovery of two shipwrecks from an important World War II naval battle off the North Carolina coast....

ECU students Macie Whitlow and Garrett VanHoy are among a group of student researchers assisting health and human performance professor Beth Chaney in her research on alcohol consumption and hazardous drinking behaviors. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Nov 24, 2014
  • Crystal Baity

SAFE CONSUMPTION

East Carolina University researchers are in the second year of a long-range alcohol consumption study aimed at helping students make safer choices. Researchers are collecting baseline data on alcohol use,...

Dr. Elaine Cabinum-Foeller, a child advocacy specialist in the Brody School of Medicine's Department of Pediatrics, has been named one of North Carolina's
Nov 24, 2014
  • ECU News Services

CHOSEN BY PEERS

Forty-seven physicians from the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University have been chosen by their peers for inclusion in the 2014 "Best Doctors in America" list. The annual...

Nov 21, 2014
  • Doug Boyd

‘AN ECU ICON’

Terry Holland, who led the East Carolina University athletics department during one of the Pirates’ most successful periods, was honored by the school today as it named one of its...

Tyree Barnes, an ECU senior from Weldon, presented student concerns about the name of Aycock Hall during the Nov. 21 Board of Trustees meeting on campus. A number of students attended the meeting and supported Barnes by standing throughout his presentation. (Photos by Jay Clark)
Nov 21, 2014
  • Crystal Baity
  • Kelly Setzer

STOPPING THE ‘BRAIN DRAIN’

The East Carolina University Board of Trustees is recommending a 5 percent tuition increase for in-state undergraduate and graduate students in each of the next two academic years. For in-state...