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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
McNeill returns to Alma Mater as Head Football Coach
GREENVILLE, N.C. — Former Pirate defensive back and assistant coach Ruffin McNeill is back home at East Carolina University. McNeill, who starred as a four-year letterman in the late 1970s...
ECU professor’s debut novel thrills readers
GREENVILLE, N.C. (Jan. 21, 2010) — As a child growing up in Rhode Island, East Carolina University professor Gregory Funaro had long suspected that the statues surrounding his grandfather’s pool...