News Archives

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 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...

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...