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Apr 12, 2010
  • Crystal Baity

Nursing hosts Diversity Day: Up With Nursing in Haiti on April 15

GREENVILLE, N.C. — East Carolina University’s College of Nursing will host Diversity Day: Up with Nursing in Haiti from 10 a.m. until noon Thursday. This is the college’s second annual...

Apr 09, 2010
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

Queen Elizabeth I portrait at ECU for analysis, authentication

GREENVILLE, NC — For almost 50 years, a portrait of Queen Elizabeth I hung in the Elizabeth Gardens gatehouse on Roanoke Island. Thousands of visitors passed by it. Volunteers worked...

Apr 06, 2010
  • ECU News Services

ECU maritime students, faculty restore and explore origins of 325-year-old cannon

GREENVILLE, NC  — East Carolina University maritime studies students worked for several months last year under the watchful eye of their professor to clean and preserve a cannon, produced around...

Apr 06, 2010
  • Doug Boyd

Women face challenges in academics, research, surgeon says

GREENVILLE, N.C.   (Apr. 6, 2010)   —   Dr. Patricia Numann – renowned surgeon, academic leader – is proof women have accomplished much in medicine and medical research. But even...

Mar 24, 2010
  • Crystal Baity

Nursing recognized for membership recruitment by national student association

GREENVILLE, N.C.  — The East Carolina Association of Nursing Students (ECANS) is being honored for recruiting the most members to join its national association in 2009-2010. The National Student Nurses...

Mar 18, 2010
  • Doug Boyd

Brody sending 58 percent into primary care residencies

GREENVILLE, N.C.  — More than half of the medical students graduating from the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University this spring will go into primary care residencies. Those...

Mar 16, 2010
  • Doug Boyd

Match Day to be Thursday

GREENVILLE, N.C.  — Graduating East Carolina University medical students will learn where they will spend the next few years as doctors-in-training during the annual Match Day at noon Thursday, March...

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...