News Archives

Feb 20, 2009
  • Crystal Baity

Film, reception close Deidre Scherer art exhibit Feb. 27

GREENVILLE, N.C. —   The closing reception for fabric-and-thread artist Deidre Scherer’s exhibit will be held at 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27, at the Greenville Museum of Art. The film,...

Feb 19, 2009
  • Peggy Novotny

ECU to dedicate Golden Corral Culinary Center

GREENVILLE, N.C.   —   Golden Corral, a leader in the hospitality industry, is helping to educate leaders of tomorrow through the new Golden Corral Culinary Center at East Carolina University. ...

Feb 17, 2009
  • Doug Boyd

CyberKnife brings another advance in cancer care

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   Arlene Glisson is a believer in East Carolina University's newest tool against cancer."It's just a blessing," she said. "It gives you hope." The 71-year-old was talking...

Feb 17, 2009
  • ECU News Services

Historian to deliver Voyages lecture

GREENVILLE, N.C. —   Felipe Fernández-Armesto, professor of modern history at Oxford University, will present the Lawrence Brewster Lecture in History as part of the 2008-09 Thomas Harriot College of...

Feb 16, 2009
  • Doug Boyd

ECU physicians perform Special Olympics physicals

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   A group of Special Olympics athletes moved a step closer to the starting line after receiving physicals Feb. 4 from East Carolina University physicians. The physicians...

Feb 16, 2009
  • ECU News Services

Youth Arts Festival seeks artists, performers

GREENVILLE, N.C. —   The Fifth Annual Youth Arts Festival at East Carolina University is seeking artists to participate in its annual show that will be held on the ECU...

Feb 13, 2009
  • ECU News Services

ECU to raise tuition, fees

GREENVILLE, N.C.—   The University of North Carolina system's Board of Governors today approved a plan to raise tuition and fees for in-state undergraduate students at public universities.  At East...

Feb 06, 2009
  • Crystal Baity

Know your numbers and prevent heart disease

GREENVILLE, N.C.—   Preventing heart disease, the leading killer of women in America, begins with “knowing your numbers,” says East Carolina University cardiologist Dr. Noel Peterson.  Those numbers are blood...

Feb 06, 2009
  • ECU News Services

ECU celebrates African American Heritage Month

GREENVILLE, N.C.   — East Carolina University will celebrate African American Heritage Month this February with special events honoring the Black Student Union (BSU) and the centennial anniversary of the NAACP. ...

Feb 04, 2009
  • ECU News Services

ECU research sheds light on origin of type 2 diabetes

GREENVILLE, N.C. —   A discovery made by East Carolina University researchers could change the way people understand and treat conditions leading to type 2 diabetes.  The study, according to...