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Nov 23, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

ECU vascular center reaccredited

The Vascular Imaging Center at the East Carolina Heart Institute at East Carolina University has received national reaccreditation. The Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Vascular Laboratories has granted a...

Balinda Ferree recognizes her father's handwriting on historic teletype she and husband John donated to Joyner Library. The original teletype outlines the events surrounding the Kennedy assassination on Nov. 22, 1963. More photos from the event are posted below. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Nov 23, 2011
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

JFK teletype pages donated to ECU

On Nov. 22, 1963, Balinda Ferree was 19 years old and working in her father’s radio station in High Point, WHPE. That same day, President John F. Kennedy and his...

Nov 22, 2011
  • Mary Schulken

ECU TUITION

East Carolina University’s trustees face a changed landscape this year, the board’s chairman said, as they consider how much to ask students to pay for a college education. “This is...

Lou Anna Hardee in ECU's College of Education has held numerous leadership positions in the Optimist Club of Greenville.(Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Nov 21, 2011
  • Judy Currin

PASSION AND LEADERSHIP

A stroll through the corridors at the Duke University Children’s Hospital changed the direction of Lou Anna Hardee’s life. Hardee was visiting her grandson, who at age 2 was fighting...

Nurturing a love of writing from an early age, freshman Kellah Jarvis published a novel before she ever arrived at East Carolina University. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Nov 21, 2011
  • Rachel Castro

TALENT AND AMBITION

Many elementary and middle school teachers use children’s books as guides and assigned reading for their students, but one East Carolina University freshman Teaching Fellow arrived having written her own....

Nov 18, 2011
  • Mary Schulken

ECU reviews lockdown response

East Carolina University officials are continuing to review the lockdown episode on the campus Wednesday, Nov. 16, to determine how the university can improve its response to such events. A...

Nov 17, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

Vascular imaging center receives reaccreditation

The Vascular Imaging Center at the East Carolina Heart Institute at East Carolina University has received national reaccreditation. The Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Vascular Laboratories has granted a...

Nov 17, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

Grant to fund study of Lyme disease

An East Carolina University scientist is looking at ways to treat or prevent Lyme disease with funding from a federal grant. Dr. Md Motaleb, an assistant professor of microbiology and...

Police officers direct people to move out of the area around the West End Dining Hall after reports of an armed suspect in the vicinity of Fifth St. and Reade Circle. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Nov 17, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

ALL CLEAR

Greenville and East Carolina University breathed a little easier Wednesday afternoon when a suspected gunman near campus turned out to be a pedestrian with an umbrella. Greenville Police surveillance cameras...

Nov 16, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

Police: Reported ‘gunman’ carrying umbrella

Greenville and East Carolina University breathed a little easier Wednesday afternoon when a suspected gunman near campus turned out to be a pedestrian with an umbrella. Greenville Police surveillance cameras...