News Archives

Jul 30, 2009
  • ECU News Services

ECU course for first-year students focuses on leadership

GREENVILLE, N.C.—   A special course for first-year students at East Carolina University will gain an additional component this fall focused on leadership development.  COAD1000 is a course that helps...

Jul 30, 2009
  • Doug Boyd

Physician-scientist selected for prestigious national research scholarship

GREENVILLE, N.C. —   A national scholarship dedicated to advancing the research and the careers of young physician-scientists has been awarded to Dr. Suzanne Lazorick, an assistant professor of pediatrics...

Jul 28, 2009
  • Doug Boyd

Willson to chair Health and Wellness Trust Fund

Raleigh, N.C.  —   Dr. Charles Willson, an ECU pediatrician, is the new chair of the North Carolina Health and Wellness Trust Fund Commission. Willson was unanimously elected at the...

Jul 17, 2009
  • Crystal Baity

College of Nursing receives $721,668 grant for nurse-midwifery education

GREENVILLE, N.C. —   East Carolina University’s College of Nursing has been awarded a three-year federal grant totaling $721,668 for nurse-midwifery education. The goal of the project is to recruit,...

Jul 17, 2009
  • Crystal Baity

Laupus Library kicks off membership drive for Friends group with featured speaker Dr. Paul R.G. Cunningham, dean of the Brody School of Medicine

GREENVILLE, N.C. —   The July 9 kickoff for the inaugural Friends of Laupus Library membership drive featured guest speaker Dr. Paul R.G. Cunningham, East Carolina University’s dean of the...

Jul 17, 2009
  • Crystal Baity

Pirate Speech Camp offers fun, intense therapy for children with severe expressive language deficits

This is the second summer that East Carolina University's Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders has offered the five-week camp in space provided by St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in downtown Greenville....

Jul 14, 2009
  • Christine Neff

ECU residence halls receive updates

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   Construction crews and East Carolina University staff have been busy this summer improving campus residence halls. All 15 halls on campus will receive some updates before...

Jul 13, 2009
  • Doug Boyd

ECU partners with agencies to deliver mental health services

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   Psychiatric services in 13 eastern North Carolina counties will get a boost thanks to a new collaborative effort involving East Carolina University, two local mental health...

Jul 07, 2009
  • Christine Neff

ECU marches against violence

GREENVILLE, N.C. —   A community affected by a deadly off-campus shooting came together July 7 to march against violence and honor the two victims, one of whom was an...

Jul 07, 2009
  • Doug Boyd

ECU medical students receive Schweitzer Fellowships

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   Six students from the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University have received Schweitzer Fellowships for 2009. The students, who have finished their first year...