News Archives

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...

Oct 20, 2011
  • ECU News Services

Health communication leader to speak at ECU

Dr. Gary Kreps, an innovator in health communication and visiting scholar at the East Carolina University School of Communication, will speak about the importance of scholarship in the growing field...

At the Middle School Innovators Academy graduation ceremony at ECU June 23, creative young thinkers showed their new product concepts. The Pitt County middle schoolers developed the concepts during a two-week program using facilities at ECU's Innovation Design Lab. The academy won first place in a national competition in talent development.
Oct 20, 2011
  • ECU News Services

ECU Middle School Innovators Academy wins first place in national competition

An East Carolina University program that teaches innovation and creative thinking to Pitt County middle schoolers has taken top honors in a nationwide competition in Indianapolis. The ECU Middle School...

Oct 20, 2011
  • ECU News Services

Health communication leader to speak at ECU

Dr. Gary Kreps, an innovator in health communication and visiting scholar at the East Carolina University School of Communication, will speak about the importance of scholarship in the growing field...