News Archives

Mar 11, 2010
  • ECU News Services

ECU biologist finds proof of the first monogamous frog

GREENVILLE, NC — Amphibians may be a love 'em and leave 'em class, but one frog species defies the norm, scientists have found. A trio of biologists, including two from...

Mar 08, 2010
  • ECU News Services

Annual Youth Arts Festival set for March 27, artists still needed

GREENVILLE, NC  —   The sixth annual Youth Arts Festival at East Carolina University will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 27 on the mall area in...

Mar 05, 2010
  • Doug Boyd

Bell of Hope dedicated at cancer center

GREENVILLE, N.C.   (Mar. 5, 2010)   —   Joseph Purington paused before becoming the first cancer patient to ring the new Bell of Hope at the Leo W. Jenkins Cancer...

Mar 03, 2010
  • ECU News Services

ECU Language Academy to begin this summer

GREENVILLE, NC — A new program at East Carolina University will provide intensive English-language instruction to international students and professionals. The East Carolina University Language Academy will begin with summer...

Mar 02, 2010
  • Doug Boyd

ECU ‘tops out’ Family Medicine Center

GREENVILLE, N.C. —   East Carolina University marked a milestone in the construction of its new Family Medicine Center with a "topping out" event Tuesday, March 2. "This building will...

Mar 02, 2010
  • ECU News Services

ECU named to 2009 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll

GREENVILLE, NC — For the fourth year in a row, East Carolina University has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the highest federal recognition a...

Feb 26, 2010
  • ECU News Services

ECU alumnus gives $4 million to university for School of Dentistry

GREENVILLE, NC — Two years after local, state and university leaders broke ground for the new East Carolina University School of Dentistry, many of those same officials were on hand...

Feb 24, 2010
  • ECU News Services

New Campus Kitchen will bring hunger relief to Pitt County

GREENVILLE, NC — East Carolina University this week became the first college in the UNC system to open a Campus Kitchen, a project that will bring student-powered hunger relief to...

Feb 24, 2010
  • Crystal Baity

Panel to discuss professional and creative opportunities, restrictions for women in the late 19th century and today

GREENVILLE, N.C. —   On March 4, the William E. Laupus Health Sciences Library will host a panel discussion, “Weak Female? Medical Justifications Behind Restrictions on Women in the Late...

Feb 22, 2010
  • Crystal Baity

New community-based service award available to nursing students

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   A community-based service award for nursing students has been established by Susan L. Henry, assistant research professor at Laupus Library and liaison to the East Carolina...