News Archives

May 21, 2014
  • Amy Adams Ellis

ECU pediatrician certified as physician executive

Dr. John M. Olsson, division chief for general pediatrics at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine, was recently named a certified physician executive by the American College of Physician...

May 21, 2014
  • Kathryn Kennedy
  • Steve Tuttle

‘A FANTASTIC START’

East Carolina University’s Project STEPP program, which supports students with learning disabilities who aspire to achieve a college education, has received a nearly $950,000 donation from Walter and Marie Williams...

May 20, 2014
  • Amy Adams Ellis

EXCITED ABOUT A CAREER IN NURSING

Hometown: Willow Spring, North Carolina High School: Home-schooled Intended Major: Nursing "I really enjoy helping and caring for people, and nursing will allow me to do that constantly." Jacqueline "Jackie"...

May 20, 2014
  • ECU News Services

UP FOR THE CHALLENGE

Theater arts, physical therapy, nursing, engineering and business are a few of the planned fields of study for 20 incoming freshmen selected for East Carolina University’s prestigious EC Scholars Program....

May 16, 2014
  • Kathryn Kennedy

A SHARED MISSION

An incoming student at the Brody School of Medicine has earned a substantial scholarship that will help pay for medical school. Dakota Johnson of Gastonia has been awarded $100,000 by...

May 16, 2014
  • Kathryn Kennedy

IMPROVING ACCESS

East Carolina University will build its eighth dental community service learning center in Brunswick County, officials announced at a press conference in Bolivia on May 16. The School of Dental...

May 16, 2014
  • Doug Boyd

VALUABLE INSIGHTS

A small fish that East Carolina University biologist Jeff McKinnon collected as a boy growing up in British Columbia will be the centerpiece of a study that could give insight...

May 14, 2014
  • Kathryn Kennedy

ECU alum, incoming Brody med student awarded $100k scholarship

An incoming student at the Brody School of Medicine has earned a substantial scholarship that will help pay for medical school. Dakota Johnson of Gastonia has been awarded $100,000 by...

May 13, 2014
  • ECU News Services

ECU TO LAUNCH PILOT PROGRAM

With Chancellor Steve Ballard and Vice Chancellor Virginia Hardy standing beside him, Gov. Pat McCrory signed an executive order May 13 that creates a multi-agency task force aimed at reducing...

May 12, 2014
  • Amy Adams Ellis

SELECTED BY PEERS

Susan Eubanks, a clinical trials nurse specialist at the Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center, has been selected by her peers as this year’s top nurse at ECU Physicians, the group...