News Archives

Oct 03, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

ECU Physicians posts positive earnings

Aided by a cancer services joint-venture agreement with Pitt County Memorial Hospital, ECU Physicians turned a profit in fiscal year 2010-2011. It was the first year since 2006-2007 that the...

Wrongly imprisoned for child rape, exonerated prisoner Dwayne Dail shared his experience at ECU Sept. 27. The visit was held in connection with the Pirate Read,
Sep 29, 2011
  • Crystal Baity

RIGHTING A WRONG

If Dwayne Dail can help prevent just one person from being wrongly accused and convicted of a crime, it will be worth it, he said. On Sept. 27, Dail told...

College of Nursing Dean Sylvia Brown holds the plaque denoting the college's recognition as a Center for Excellence. ECU was one of only eight to receive the recognition from the National League for Nursing (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Sep 27, 2011
  • Crystal Baity

College of Nursing receives nationwide award for way it teaches students

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

Sep 27, 2011
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

ECU plans events tied to ‘Picking Cotton,’ Pirate Read

Christine Mumma, executive director of the North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence, and exonerated prisoner Dwayne Dail visited the East Carolina University campus Tuesday night as part of Pirate Read’s...

ECU clinical assistant professor Kevin Youngs and student F.J. Goodwin evaluates players competing for a spot with the Carolina Hurricanes hockey team. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Sep 26, 2011
  • Crystal Baity

On center ice

As competition intensifies for coveted spots on the Carolina Hurricanes hockey team, East Carolina University physical therapy faculty and students helped assess players’ readiness the first day of training camp...

Sep 23, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

Officials cut ribbon on new ECU Family Medicine Center

Three years almost to the day after a ground-breaking ceremony, East Carolina University officials cut the ribbon Friday on one of the university's most awaited new buildings: the new ECU...

Former N.C. Gov. Jim Hunt speaks to members of the ECU Board of Trustees about his desire to help ECU join the Big East Conference. (Photo by Mary Schulken)
Sep 23, 2011
  • Mary Schulken

Former Gov. Hunt expected to join team

Former Gov. Jim Hunt is expected to join the team working to get East Carolina University’s athletics program in the Big East conference, university officials said Friday. Hunt, the governor...

Dr. Belle Wheelan, president of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, speaks to participants of ECU Assessment Day on campus Sept. 23. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Sep 23, 2011
  • Crystal Baity

‘Ahead of the curve’

East Carolina University already is ahead of the curve compared to other institutions in measuring student learning, the president of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools said Friday. Dr....

Work continues at ECU on conservation of materials from the shipwreck of pirate Blackbeard's Queen Anne's Revenge. Above, Erik Farrell, a recent UNC-Greensboro graduate and lab volunteer, left, works with Bartosz Dajnowki, a graduate student in art conservation at the University of Delaware, to assemble the 6,500-gallon tank to hold the Queen Anne’s Revenge anchor. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Sep 23, 2011
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

QAR lab preserves Blackbeard’s treasures

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

Sep 22, 2011
  • ECU News Services

ECU’s Joyner Library hosts 8th literary homecoming

East Carolina University honors the region’s literary traditions Sept. 23 and 24 with the annual Eastern North Carolina Literary Homecoming, presented by Joyner Library and the “North Carolina Literary Review."...