News Archives

Jun 14, 2011
  • Rachel Castro

ECU 101: Orientation to the Pirate nation

Call it the formal hello — the time each year when the newest Pirates take a measure of their first home away from home and sample what life is like...

Jun 13, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

New doctors boost children’s kidney transplants

Fifteen-year-old Dakota Widdows of Swansboro has a new kidney and a new outlook on life. Thanks to a renewed transplant program at East Carolina University and Pitt County Memorial Hospital,...

Jun 10, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

ECU students chosen for family medicine scholars program

Five East Carolina University medical students have been selected to participate in a program aimed at mentoring students who aspire to be family physicians. The ECU students chosen to participate...

Jun 10, 2011
  • ECU News Services

School of Dental Medicine Tour

Members of the N.C. Dental Society toured the construction site for the East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine Wednesday, meeting faculty and viewing the facilities. The School of Dental...

Allison Hope, an instructional technology consultant with ECU's College of Nursing, finds time outside of the busy workday to volunteer with scouting and the Rocking Horse Ranch. (Contributed photo)
Jun 10, 2011
  • Judy Currin

Hope balances work, personal life through service to others

Allison Hope can rattle off the Boy Scouts of America’s oath, law, motto and slogan in her sleep. She’s had lots of practice. Hope felt compelled to participate when her...

Jun 09, 2011
  • Crystal Baity

Summertime homework: Kids, practice your cursive

Summer is a good time for children who are struggling with handwriting to improve their skills, said an East Carolina University expert. The break from learning course content gives children...

Jun 09, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

Camp helps children achieve a healthy weight

For the fourth year, a healthy lifestyle camp for overweight youth will be held at the Eastern 4-H Center in Columbia. The camp, called Take Off 4-Health, will provide a...

David Siegel
Jun 08, 2011
  • Rachel Castro

FULBRIGHT AWARD

A professor at East Carolina University will visit South Africa this summer as a Fulbright specialist to lecture on access and inclusion. David Siegel, associate professor of higher, adult and...

Jun 08, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

Cardiac imaging center re-accredited

The Cardiovascular Imaging Center at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University has received national reaccreditation. The Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Nuclear Medicine Laboratories has granted...

Researchers have recovered an anchor from a shipwreck believed to be that of pirate Blackbeard's flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge. Photos from the recovery of the artifact show the crew on the R/V Dan Moore working to bring an anchor onboard the research vessel from Cape Fear Community College in the waters near Beaufort Inlet. Divers used lift bags to slowly raise the anchor, which was then prepared for a move to the QAR Conservation Lab at ECU. (Photos and video by Cliff Hollis)
Jun 03, 2011
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

Blackbeard’s anchor raised near Beaufort, now at QAR lab

After resting at the bottom of Beaufort Inlet for almost 300 years, one of four large anchors of Blackbeard’s flagship Queen Anne’s Revenge hit the warm Carolina sun again May...