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At left, Shanna Daniels, QAR project conservator steadies the cannon while Lawrence Babits, center, director of the ECU maritime studies program, and Charles Bowdoin, an ECU student at right, work to position the cannon on a block in the holding tank at ECU's QAR Conservation Lab. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Oct 28, 2011
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

QAR lab preserves Blackbeard’s treasures

A few hours after underwater archaeologists plucked one of four large anchors from the wreck of Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge in the waters near Beaufort Inlet in May, a tourist...

Oct 27, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

ECU physicians named to annual Best Doctors list

Forty-seven physicians from the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University have been chosen by their peers for inclusion in the 2011-2012 "Best Doctors in America" list. The annual...

Oct 27, 2011
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

Colum McCann, author of “Let the Great World Spin,” coming to ECU

The winner of the 2009 National Book Award for fiction will visit East Carolina University in early November for events with students and a public reading of his work. Colum...

Oct 26, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

ECU Neuroscience Symposium to be Nov. 1

Research on spinal cord injury and multiple sclerosis are among the topics to be discussed at the 13th annual East Carolina University Neuroscience Symposium on Nov. 1. The daylong event...

Oct 25, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

Students inducted into Gold Humanism Society

Thirteen medical students at East Carolina University are the inaugural inductees in the school's new chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society. The society recognizes fourth-year medical students who have...

Oct 24, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

Dental school’s use of Yammer featured in national magazine

The East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine is featured in a U.S. News & World Report article on the use of the social media tool Yammer versus Facebook as...

East Carolina University nursing professor Lou Everett paints an original watercolor as Pete Hickey works in the background at the Painting Purple & Other Colors Artists' Working Studio and Gallery. Hickey and the Groessers will open the shop for the first artist studio tour Nov. 5 to raise funds for scholarships in the ECU School of Art and Design. Photos by Cliff Hollis
Oct 24, 2011
  • Crystal Baity

Behind-the-scenes artist studio tour features new gallery

One stop on the upcoming fundraising artist studio tour for East Carolina University's School of Art and Design will be the new Painting Purple & Other Colors Artists' Working Studio...

Oct 24, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

Article on suicide personal for ECU therapist

Writing about suicide prevention might not seem unusual for a clinical social worker who counsels patients who may be considering that choice. But for Sean Pumphrey of East Carolina University,...

East Carolina University nursing professor Lou Everett paints an original watercolor as Pete Hickey works in the background at the Painting Purple & Other Colors Artists' Working Studio and Gallery, 4320-G East 10th Street, Greenville. Hickey and the Groessers will open the shop for the first artist studio tour on Nov. 5 to raise funds for scholarships in the ECU School of Art and Design. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Oct 24, 2011
  • Crystal Baity

Behind-the-scenes artist studio tour features new gallery

First tour benefits School of Art and Design Eleven artists in Greenville and Winterville are opening their studios to guests on Nov. 5. Tickets are $20 and funds raised will...

A 1911 image from a Wright brothers' flight at Kill Devil Hills shows a crowd of observers and reporters viewing the event. (Photo courtesy of ECU Joyner Library Digital Images Collection)
Oct 21, 2011
  • ECU News Services

Soaring Flight: ECU students study Wright Brothers’ flights in 1911

East Carolina University students have focused on Wright Brothers’ discovery of “Soaring Flight” in an exhibit that documents their last expedition to Kitty Hawk in 1911. In the years following...