News Archives

Feb 02, 2010
  • ECU News Services

ECU, U.S. State Department work together on groundbreaking climate change course

GREENVILLE, NC — East Carolina University is working with the U.S. Department of State to promote a course on climate change that will be viewed across the globe. Intended to...

Jan 27, 2010
  • Crystal Baity

Laupus Library hosts national traveling exhibit on women’s rights advocate, author Charlotte Perkins Gilman and ‘The Yellow Wall-Paper’

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   East Carolina University’s Laupus Library is hosting a national traveling exhibit through March 6 that explores a provocative story from the beginning of the women’s rights...

Jan 25, 2010
  • Doug Boyd

Rotondo to Chair National Trauma Committee

GREENVILLE, N.C. — Dr. Michael F. Rotondo has been appointed chair of the Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons. He is professor and chair of surgery at...

Jan 22, 2010
  • ECU News Services

McNeill returns to Alma Mater as Head Football Coach

GREENVILLE, N.C. — Former Pirate defensive back and assistant coach Ruffin McNeill is back home at East Carolina University. McNeill, who starred as a four-year letterman in the late 1970s...

Jan 21, 2010
  • Karen Shugart

ECU professor’s debut novel thrills readers

GREENVILLE, N.C. (Jan. 21, 2010) — As a child growing up in Rhode Island, East Carolina University professor Gregory Funaro had long suspected that the statues surrounding his grandfather’s pool...

Jan 21, 2010
  • Doug Boyd

Embracing change key to survival, Cunningham says

GREENVILLE, N.C.  — With challenges as well as opportunities at home and abroad, embracing change and learning from it are more important than ever, according to Dr. Paul Cunningham, dean...

Jan 20, 2010
  • Crystal Baity

Sixth annual Jean Mills Health Symposium to be held Feb. 5

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   Race, stress and health will be the main topics of the sixth annual Jean Mills Health Symposium Feb. 5 in Greenville. The keynote speaker will be...

Jan 20, 2010
  • Karen Shugart

ECU students raise money for Haiti earthquake victims

GREENVILLE, N.C.   (Jan. 20, 2010)   —   Struck by the images and stories of the earthquake in Haiti, many East Carolina University students have felt compelled to act. ECU...

Jan 18, 2010
  • Crystal Baity

Jean Mills Health Symposium to be Feb. 4

GREENVILLE, N.C. —   East Carolina University and communities are working together to reduce disparities, improve minority health and solve health problems, which is the focus of the seventh annual...

Jan 15, 2010
  • Doug Boyd

Best Banquet to be Jan. 23

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University will hold its 26th annual Andrew A. Best M.D. Senior Recognition Banquet Jan. 23 at the East...