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Feb 17, 2011
  • Mary Schulken

Perdue pledges support for dental school during visit Feb. 17

GREENVILLE, N.C.   —   N.C. Gov. Beverly Perdue said funding to open East Carolina University's School of Dental Medicine is an urgent need that should stay on track despite the...

Feb 16, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

Health reform’s impact on primary care to be topic of lecture

GREENVILLE, N.C.  — Dr. James G. Jones, a nationally known family physician, will speak Thursday, Feb. 17, about the implications on health care reform efforts on primary care during a...

Feb 16, 2011
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

Study: Casual video games demonstrate ability to reduce depression and anxiety

GREENVILLE, N.C. and SEATTLE   —   A new study conducted at East Carolina University shows casual video games help reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety in people with clinical depression....

Feb 15, 2011
  • ECU News Services

Writer Colm Tóibín to visit ECU, Feb. 23 & 24

GREENVILLE — Award-winning writer Colm Tóibín will visit East Carolina University for events next week, including a public reading at the Greenville Museum of Art. Born in County Wexford, Ireland,...

Feb 11, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

A Valentine’s Day gift of a different sort

GREENVILLE, N.C. — June Long was with her daughter browsing Valentine's Day cards when she received the call. A match to replace Long's failing kidneys had been found and was...

Feb 10, 2011
  • ECU News Services

Rare WWII rubber map of Iwo Jima on display Feb. 19

GREENVILLE     —   On Saturday, Feb. 19, the 66th anniversary of the landing of the US invasion on Iwo Jima, historians and conservators from ECU will hold a public...

Feb 09, 2011
  • Karen Shugart

Raising Cain, Alan Abel-style

GREENVILLE, N.C.   —   Before Stephen Colbert and Sacha Baron Cohen were even born, Alan Abel was straightfacedly urging TV newscasters that Americans needed to clothe their animals for morality’s...

Feb 04, 2011
  • Crystal Baity

Small group can make a big difference in fostering better health

GREENVILLE, N.C. —   A small group can make a big difference in fostering better health in a community and often have the most success in creating change, said Dr. William...

Feb 02, 2011
  • Mary Schulken

Text of Chancellor Ballard’s State of the University speech

GREENVILLE   —   State of the University East Carolina University Former ECU Board of Trustees Chairman Bob Greczyn greeted those attending the second State of the University address by Chancellor...

Feb 02, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

Bioengineered veins could help patients needing bypass surgery, dialysis

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.   —   Thanks to research involving experts from East Carolina University, other universities and a Morrisville-based biotechnology firm, the day when a surgeon can pull a...