News Archives

May 22, 2014
  • Kathy Muse

SWORN TO PROTECT

Starting the day with a rigorous physical training session at 6 a.m. is rarely one’s idea of fun. Not to mention regular military-style drills, Ranger Challenges, and Army ten-milers. Top...

May 21, 2014
  • ECU News Services

FIRST-CLASS ACCESS

East Carolina University’s graduate programs in nursing and business rank among the nation’s best in online education for veterans, according to a listing released May 20 by U.S. News &...

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...