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Apr 27, 2010
  • ECU News Services

Awards

Founders Day, University Awards honor achievement, accomplishment at ECU By Jeannine Manning Hutson East Carolina University marked its 104th year by celebrating teaching, research and service during its annual Founders...

Apr 26, 2010
  • Doug Boyd

Professor receives national research award

GREENVILLE, N.C.  — Dr. William Meggs, a professor of emergency medicine and chief of toxicology at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, has received the Research Award...

Apr 23, 2010
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

Bowles to deliver commencement address

GREENVILLE, NC  — Erskine Bowles, president of the University of North Carolina system, will be the featured speaker at ECU’s 101st spring commencement on May 7. About 3,400 students are...

Apr 19, 2010
  • ECU News Services

Honorary society recognizes students, faculty and alumni

Greenville, N.C. — East Carolina University’s Phi Kappa Phi chapter on April 18 welcomed into its ranks six faculty members, three alumni and one honorary member, as well as more...

Apr 16, 2010
  • Doug Boyd

Dr. Paul and Kathryn Walker make unprecedented $500,000 gift

GREENVILLE, N.C. — Dr. Paul Walker and his wife, Kathryn, have made an unprecedented donation to expand the strengths and raise awareness of the Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center while...

Apr 16, 2010
  • Crystal Baity

Nursing raises funds and awareness about Haiti during Diversity Day

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   East Carolina University’s College of Nursing united Thursday to raise funds and awareness about Haiti during its second annual Diversity Day. The aroma of boulettes, red...

Apr 14, 2010
  • Doug Boyd

Scorpion venom provides clues to cause, treatment of pancreatitis

GREENVILLE, N.C.   (Apr. 14, 2010)   —   A Brazilian scorpion has provided researchers at East Carolina University and N.C. State University an insight into venom's effects on the ability...

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...