News Archives

Sep 06, 2012
  • Doug Boyd

Overhaul needed to improve health system and care, reduce costs

America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual, according to a new report from the federal Institute of Medicine. Inefficiencies, an overwhelming amount...

Sep 05, 2012
  • Steve Tuttle

PART SCIENCE, PART ART

Scott Maxwell describes his job as being a chauffeur for science but he wants people to know that he does not use a joystick to drive the Mars Curiosity rover,...

Sep 05, 2012
  • Doug Boyd

Protein could help save tissue following heart attack

Research by an East Carolina University scientist could lead to a product that helps preserve heart tissue during a heart attack. Dr. Jitka Virag, an assistant professor of physiology at...

Sep 03, 2012
  • Doug Boyd
  • Mary Schulken

ECU GOP VISIT

As if “purple-gold” chants and AC/DC entry music weren’t enough to jack up the crowd at East Carolina University Monday, Rep. Paul Ryan rolled out football and ‘cue. “I was...

Aug 31, 2012
  • ECU News Services

AN ANNUAL TRADITION

East Carolina University will honor the region’s literary traditions Sept. 21 and 22 during the Ninth Annual Eastern North Carolina Literary Homecoming, presented by Joyner Library and the North Carolina...

Aug 30, 2012
  • Steve Tuttle

SUPPORT FOR WOUNDED SOLDIER

English teaching instructor Andy Bates had cut off the tip of his thumb in a workshop accident at home and was sitting in the doctor’s office when he had the...

Aug 30, 2012
  • Doug Boyd

‘GREEN’ CLEAN-UP

When football fans set up their tailgating gear at East Carolina University’s newest athletics parking lot, some of them may know they’re standing on the former site of a Greenville...

Aug 29, 2012
  • Crystal Baity

SOLVING PROBLEMS

Kelsey Romoser’s summer began half way around the world, working in a clinic in Nepal. It was something the East Carolina University physical therapy student had wanted to do since...

Aug 29, 2012
  • ECU News Services

‘EXACTLY ON COURSE’

East Carolina University has lived up to its promise to educate dentists for rural and underserved populations, Chancellor Steve Ballard said Aug. 15 during the first faculty and staff convocation...

Aug 24, 2012
  • Crystal Baity

Aphasia group practices communication skills Fridays this fall

An aphasia group for people who have difficulty communicating because of stroke or brain injury is being offered at East Carolina University. The group will meet from 10 a.m. until...