News Archives

Feb 18, 2010
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

Mortenson, author of ‘Three Cups of Tea,’ to speak on campus March 1

GREENVILLE, NC  —   Greg Mortenson, internationally renowned humanitarian, bestselling author, and co-founder of the Central Asia Institute, will speak at East Carolina University on March 1 as part of...

Feb 18, 2010
  • Doug Boyd

Social factors and obesity topic of upcoming Pediatric Healthy Weight Summit

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   The effects of families, friends, churches and other social factors on childhood obesity will be the topic of the seventh annual Pediatric Healthy Weight Summit. The...

Feb 17, 2010
  • ECU News Services

ECU students win regional journalism awards

Greenville, NC — East Carolina University students have won four awards from the Southeast Journalism Conference, including the coveted College Journalist of the Year. The students from ECU’s Office of...

Feb 12, 2010
  • Doug Boyd

New clinic for breast cancer survivors opens

GREENVILLE, N.C. — Breast cancer survivors in eastern North Carolina have a convenient place to turn for continuing care following their cancer treatments. The Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center is...

Feb 11, 2010
  • Doug Boyd

Medical resident taken by cancer

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   An East Carolina University family medicine resident has succumbed to her four-and-one-half-year battle with cancer. Dr. Katherine Bray-Strickland died Wednesday. She was 27. She was diagnosed...

Feb 05, 2010
  • Crystal Baity

Northeastern University Soccer Player and stroke survivor shares her story at Wear Red for Women

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   As a college sophomore, 20-year-old Katie Jerdee of Boston suffered a massive stroke, something she thought only happened to older adults. Too often, people dismiss warning...

Feb 04, 2010
  • ECU News Services

Ballard praises strengths, outlines goals in State of the University address

Greenville, NC — East Carolina University Chancellor Steve Ballard hailed the institution’s successes Feb. 3 and laid out a vision for the challenges and goals ahead. In his inaugural State...

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...