News Archives

ECU researchers have been searching the Atlantic ocean to measure effects from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. (Photo by Ben McGlaughon)
Nov 08, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

Oil and water don’t mix

Off Onslow Bay, a group of East Carolina University researchers have been looking for oil. But unlike most in this world of $90-a-barrel crude, they aren’t hoping to find a...

Nov 04, 2011
  • Crystal Baity

History day at Country Doctor Museum Nov. 12

The Country Doctor Museum and Bailey Area Ministries are teaming up to provide residents and visitors a fun-filled day on Saturday, Nov. 12. "History Alive!” will be held 10 a.m.-4...

Nov 04, 2011
  • Mary Schulken

Raising the Brainpower Bar

The questions fly in Learning Center 343 at East Carolina University's Science and Technology Building. Corey Monaghan, 23, a tutor for Project HEART, is trying to unlock a better understanding...

Nov 04, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

Grant to help ECU place medical residents in communities

A federal grant will help East Carolina University place family medicine residents in underserved communities in eastern North Carolina. The five-year, $480,739 grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration...

Nov 03, 2011
  • ECU News Services

Four-star general, campus ceremony to commemorate Veterans Day at ECU

Gary L. North ECU alumnus Gen. Gary L. North is commander of Pacific Air Forces, responsible for Air Force activities spread over half the globe. His command supports 45,000 USAF...

Dr. Bobby Jones, left, plays mandolin as his brother, Dr. Stephen Jones listens at Bobby Jones' home in Shelby. (Photo by Doug Boyd)
Oct 28, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

Doctoring is a family tradition for the Joneses

A career spent working as a family doctor, teaching medical students and supporting the medical school at East Carolina University was recognized Friday at ECU’s new Family Medicine Center. Dr....

Oct 28, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

Doctoring is a family tradition for the Joneses

A career spent working as a family doctor, teaching medical students and supporting the medical school at East Carolina University was recognized Friday at ECU's new Family Medicine Center. Dr....

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...