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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...

Apr 15, 2011
  • Mary Schulken

Niswander named vice chancellor for administration and finance at ECU

GREENVILLE, N.C. — Dr. Rick Niswander has been named vice chancellor for administration and finance at East Carolina University on a permanent basis after serving in an interim role since...

Apr 14, 2011
  • Crystal Baity

Movie brings hope to people with aphasia

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   Carl McIntyre once defined himself as salesman, actor, father, husband and friend. He had a "golden tongue." But a stroke five years ago left him almost...

Apr 14, 2011
  • Doug Boyd

Cunningham, Rotondo named to national association

GREENVILLE, N.C. — Dr. Paul Cunningham, dean of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, and Dr. Michael Rotondo, chair of surgery at ECU, were inducted today into...