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Aug 12, 2011
  • Crystal Baity

Brody welcomes Class of 2015

The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University celebrated the start of medical school for 78 new students by presenting each with a white coat during a ceremony Aug....

Blair Fuller, president of ECU's Multicultural Student Nursing Association, spearheaded the production of a cookbook that highlights cultural diversity within the College of Nursing. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Aug 11, 2011
  • Crystal Baity

Student nursing association highlights culture, cuisine with new cookbook

This fall, East Carolina University nursing students will share a meal and learn something about each other at the same time. The Multicultural Student Nursing Association will host a potluck...

Aug 08, 2011
  • Crystal Baity

College of Nursing among tops in nation for way it teaches students

East Carolina University’s College of Nursing is among eight schools in the nation to receive top recognition for the way it teaches students. ECU has been named a Center of...

Aug 05, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

White coat ceremony to be Friday, Aug. 12

The Class of 2015 of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University will be welcomed officially at noon Friday, Aug. 12, during the annual white coat ceremony. The...

Aug 03, 2011
  • Crystal Baity

Center provides new home for artists, second career for nursing faculty member

Karen Krupa’s former East Carolina University nursing students might have done a double take browsing in the Inner Banks Artisans’ Center in Washington. “They’ll say, ‘don’t I know you from...

Karen Krupa, faculty member in the ECU College of Nursing, and her husband Bob Henkel have opened the Inner Banks Artisans' Center in Washington, N.C. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Aug 03, 2011
  • Crystal Baity

SECOND CAREER: New center provides home for artists

Karen Krupa’s former East Carolina University nursing students might have done a double take browsing in the Inner Banks Artisans’ Center in Washington. “They’ll say, ‘don’t I know you from...

Aug 02, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

Bakersville resident receives first Phillips Foundation dental scholarship

A resident of Bakersville in Mitchell County is the recipient of a scholarship at the East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine. Kyle Duncan, a May graduate of Appalachian State...

Aug 02, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

ECU to build dental center in Spruce Pine

The mountain town of Spruce Pine has been selected as the site of an educational and patient-care facility of the East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine. ECU announced Tuesday,...

Aug 02, 2011
  • Crystal Baity

Shooter drill tests emergency preparedness on Health Sciences Campus

It was only a drill, but police officers and preparedness officials at East Carolina University got a taste Aug. 2 of what it might be like if a worst-case public...

Four ECU experts on coastal dynamics have written a new book, “The Battle for North Carolina’s Coast.” They are, left to right, Stanley Riggs, Dorothea Ames, Stephen Culver, and David Mallinson, all of the Department of Geological Sciences. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Aug 01, 2011
  • ECU News Services

ECU experts pen book on North Carolina’s coast

North Carolina’s barrier islands, a 325-mile-long string of narrow sand islands that forms the coast of North Carolina, are one of the most beloved areas to live and visit in...