News Archives

Jan 28, 2009
  • Doug Boyd

‘Gap year’ an adventure for ECU physician

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   It's commonly known as a "gap year," the term normally reserved for teenagers who spend the year between high school and college working, traveling, volunteering or...

Jan 27, 2009
  • Peggy Novotny

BSH donates ‘green’ appliances to ECU model kitchen

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   The BSH Home Appliance Corporation has donated state-of-the-art kitchen appliances to the East Carolina University Department of Interior Design and Merchandising to assist the department in...

Jan 26, 2009
  • ECU News Services

ECU to host regional Campus Safety Symposium

GREENVILLE, N.C.   —   The chairman of the N.C. Attorney General’s Task Force on Campus Safety will deliver the keynote address for ECU’s third annual Campus Safety Symposium Jan. 29-30. ...

Jan 26, 2009
  • Doug Boyd

Pulmonary hypertension clinic opens at ECU

GREENVILLE, N.C. —   East Carolina University has opened a new clinic for people with pulmonary arterial hypertension, a disease that limits a person's physical activity and can lead to...

Jan 23, 2009
  • Doug Boyd

New show takes viewers ‘Inside ECU’

GREENVILLE, N.C. —   Greenville has a new way to learn the latest accomplishments of faculty, staff and students at East Carolina University. "Inside ECU" is a 15-minute news magazine...

Jan 22, 2009
  • ECU News Services

Darwin’s legacy focus of Voyages of Discovery lecture

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   In celebration of the 200th year since Charles Darwin’s birth, the Voyages of Discovery Lecture Series at East Carolina University will present a talk on the...

Jan 16, 2009
  • Doug Boyd

Medical student banquet to be Jan. 24

GREENVILLE, N.C. —   The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University will hold its 25th annual Andrew A. Best M.D. Senior Recognition Banquet Jan. 24 at the Greenville...

Jan 15, 2009
  • ECU News Services

Farmers receive health services through ECU’s AgriSafe-NC

GREENVILLE, N.C.   —   They work in one of the most dangerous professions in North Carolina, yet about 27 percent of the state’s agricultural families do not have health insurance,...

Jan 13, 2009
  • Peggy Novotny

New dean named for College of Human Ecology

GREENVILLE, N.C. —   Judy Siguaw has joined East Carolina University as dean of the College of Human Ecology.  The marketing and hospitality expert comes to ECU from the Cornell-Nanyang...

Jan 12, 2009
  • ECU News Services

Spaulding named first Leader in Residence at ECU

GREENVILLE, N.C.   —   Thomas J. “Tommy” Spaulding, former president of Up With People, has been named the first Leader in Residence at East Carolina University. Spaulding, who was the...