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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...

Oct 19, 2011
  • ECU News Services

ECU supports National Guard project with Moldova

North Carolinians are known for their friendly personalities, generous nature and their willingness to help their fellow man if they are needed. In keeping with that tradition, a retired East...

Oct 19, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

National organization recognizes Novick

Dr. Lloyd Novick has been selected to receive the 2011 Excellence in Health Administration Award from the American Public Health Association. Novick is chair of the Department of Public Health...

Oct 17, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

Chitwood receives Russian surgical award

Dr. W. Randolph Chitwood Jr. is one of five recipients this year of a prestigious international surgical award. Chitwood, director of the East Carolina Heart Institute, professor of cardiovascular sciences...

CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta, left, speaks with ECU trauma surgeon Dr. Scott Sagraves on Saturday, Oct. 15, at Pitt County Memorial Hospital about the 2008 death of high school football player Jaquan Waller following a head injury. Photo by Doug Boyd
Oct 17, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

CNN to air documentary featuring ECU physicians

CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta spoke with East Carolina University specialists Saturday, Oct. 15, about the 2008 death of high school football player Jaquan Waller following a head injury. CNN will...

Oct 14, 2011
  • Crystal Baity

A family physician returns home

teven Manning decided to be a family doctor even before he applied to East Carolina University's medical school. As an undergraduate student in exercise physiology at ECU, he worked on...