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Apr 03, 2012
  • Doug Boyd

Students raise $8,500 for charity

Student-led fundraisers netted more than $8,500 for the East Carolina University Pediatric Healthy Weight Research and Treatment Center and the St. Baldrick's Foundation, a cancer charity. On Saturday afternoon, nine...

Apr 03, 2012
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

‘FUN AND ALSO DELICIOUS’

A grilled mockingbird, a chocolate pie representing “The Help,” and a battle scene constructed with Peeps and graham cracker fortress walls from “A Storm of Swords” by George R.R. Martin...

Apr 03, 2012
  • ECU News Services

WORKING MAN’S POET

The great American “working man’s poet” will visit East Carolina University in late April for a public reading of his work. Philip Levine, named U.S. Poet Laureate by the Library...

Apr 02, 2012
  • ECU News Services

POUNDING THE PAVEMENT

An early Saturday morning rain did not stop a crowd of walkers and racers determined to complete the 18th Annual Hamstring Hustle 5K Run/Walk on March 31. ECU medical student...

Apr 02, 2012
  • ECU News Services

EASTER FUN

Face-painting, games and hidden Easter eggs were among the prizes awaiting children who attended an Easter Egg Hunt at the East Carolina University mall April 1. The event was the...

Apr 02, 2012
  • ECU News Services

FAMILY FRIENDLY

More than 100 visual and performing artists came to East Carolina University March 31 for the 8th Annual Youth Arts Festival. Activities included wheel-thrown ceramics, watercolor painting, weaving, papermaking, blacksmithing,...

Apr 02, 2012
  • ECU News Services

CONQUERING CANCER

At an East Carolina University St. Baldricks Foundation event March 31, nine men and one woman shaved their heads to raise more than $7,200 for St. Baldrick's, an organization that...

Apr 02, 2012
  • Doug Boyd

Tree’s roots trace back to ancient Greece

East Carolina University might be the youngest medical school in the state, but an addition to its campus has a lineage that goes back thousands of years to the father...

Mar 30, 2012
  • Kathryn Kennedy

IN PHASE TWO

East Carolina University could save up to $3.8 million annually by reorganizing its academic structure. That estimate was released March 30 in a report from the chancellor-appointed Program Prioritization Committee....

Mar 30, 2012
  • Crystal Baity

LIVING WELL

ROBERSONVILLE – Squeals and laughter erupted from the East End Elementary School gym Thursday as second-graders learned about healthy foods from East Carolina University students. In a modified “red light,...