News Archives

Apr 27, 2011
  • ECU News Services

Remembrance

Three East Carolina University students who died serving their country were among the first memorialized during the Memorial Walk and Freedom Wall dedication. They were Capt. James R. Tant, U.S....

Apr 27, 2011
  • ECU News Services

Awards, memorials highlight 2011 Founders Day

East Carolina University celebrated its 104th anniversary April 26, marking the date on which the North Carolina General Assembly formally approved the establishment of the East Carolina Teachers Training School....

Apr 26, 2011
  • Mary Schulken

BREAKING NEWS: Kidnapping suspect arrested

GREENVILLE, N.C.   —   Greenville police have arrested a Greenville teen with a criminal record and charged him in connection with the abduction Monday, April 25 of an ECU student...

Apr 26, 2011
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

‘Picking Cotton’ is ECU’s 2011 Summer Pirate Read

GREENVILLE, N.C. — A non-fiction work chronicling how two people’s lives became intertwined through a case of misidentification and a prison sentence that followed has been selected as the 2011...

Apr 21, 2011
  • Mary Schulken

CAHS could gain departments under reorganization proposal

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   The College of Allied Health Sciences could gain departments under a proposal to dissolve two other colleges and spread their programs to other schools within East...

Apr 19, 2011
  • Mary Schulken

ECU to dedicate memorial to military service

GREENVILLE, NC  — Three East Carolina University students who died serving their country will be among the first memorialized on a new Memorial Walk and Freedom Wall, dedicated on April...

Apr 18, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

Racers raise $1,000 for pediatric weight center

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   Pounding the pavement Saturday netted approximately $1,000 for the East Carolina University Pediatric Healthy Weight Research and Treatment Center. Some 115 runners braved windy weather to...

Apr 18, 2011
  • Mary Schulken

ECU challenges use of its brand

GREENVILLE, NC — East Carolina University has filed suit in federal court to protect its trademarks and brands from unauthorized use by the owner of a Greenville publication and website...

Apr 18, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

Gulf War illness study at ECU seeks veterans

GREENVILLE, N.C.  — An East Carolina University medical toxicologist is leading a team of biomedical scientists working to recruit veterans to participate in a study of new medicines to treat...

Apr 15, 2011
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

Preparing tomorrow’s leaders for a changing world

Greenville, N.C.  — Making sure East Carolina University graduates are prepared to compete in the changing cross-cultural world was the focus of a town hall meeting on April 13 in...