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Dec 22, 2011
  • ECU News Services

GIFT OF LIFE

Doctors announced today what is believed to be the first successful six-person kidney exchange in the Carolinas. Doctors from the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University and Eastern...

ECU alumna Kymia Nawabi was the winner of Bravo TV's
Dec 22, 2011
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

ECU grad wins Bravo TV’s “Work of Art: The Next Great Artist”

An East Carolina University graduate won the second season of Bravo TV's "Work of Art: The Next Great Artist" in an episode airing Dec. 21. The creative competition show pitted...

Dec 22, 2011
  • Crystal Baity
  • Doug Boyd

ECU, PCMH provide gift of life via six-person kidney exchange

Doctors announced today what is believed to be the first successful six-person kidney exchange in the Carolinas. Doctors from the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University and Eastern...

Dec 20, 2011
  • Kathryn Kennedy

Race to the Top grant boosts early childhood education

A federal grant awarded Friday, Dec. 16 provides Eastern North Carolina with a chance to increase and improve educational opportunities for young children, according to a faculty member in the...

ENCSD student Judith Urias likes her new dancing shoes as ECU employee Johnny Stanley watches. Photo by Gray Whitley, Wilson Daily Times
Dec 17, 2011
  • ECU News Services

Brody helps make holiday special for deaf students

The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University and its telemedicine staff brought Christmas to students at the Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf in Wilson, presenting each...

Dec 16, 2011
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson
  • Kathryn Kennedy

ECU COMMENCEMENT

Ashley Tyson’s decorated mortarboard summed up her years at ECU this way: “I can do trauma and drama.” Tyson of Washington, N.C., was one of many boisterous College of Nursing...

ECU graduate student Christina Brown-Bochicchio traveled across the country to join ECU's recreational therapy program, where she is now working on research to help wheelchair athletes improve their sports performance. (Photo by Chuck Baldwin, Health and Human Performance)
Dec 16, 2011
  • Kathy Muse

SEEKING SUBSTANCE

Christina Brown-Bochicchio left Hollywood – and a career that catered to film and television celebrities – to enroll as a graduate student at East Carolina University. While she enjoyed planning...

Dec 15, 2011
  • Kathryn Kennedy

AMAZING PACE

Students of sociology are familiar with the Thomas theorem. “If men define their situations as real,” it states, “they are real in their consequences.” That premise and her family’s prayers...

Dec 15, 2011
  • ECU News Services

ECU ranked 2nd nationwide in national board certifications

North Carolina ranked first in the nation in national board certification of teachers, and East Carolina University earned a top ranking for newly certified alumni. Appalachian State University leads the...

William Chappell, left, and Ossie Dyson completed their doctorates in microbiology and immunology this fall at the Brody School of Medicine at ECU. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Dec 15, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

TIME FOR A BREAK

Now that he's finished his doctorate, Ossie Dyson might finally have time to take his wife on a honeymoon. Classmate William Chappell will be glad to get some rest. Dyson...