News Archives

Jan 12, 2009
  • ECU News Services

ECU students volunteer for MLK Day Challenge

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   For some students at East Carolina University, the Jan. 19 holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. won’t be a day of rest, but a...

Jan 09, 2009
  • Crystal Baity

End of life and aging focus of art exhibit Jan. 20-Feb. 27

Greenville, N.C.  —   A community-campus consortium is bringing the fabric and thread art of Deidre Scherer to the Greenville Museum of Art beginning Jan. 20 through Feb. 27.  Scherer...

Jan 02, 2009
  • ECU News Services

ECU professors aid impoverished in India

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   The efforts of two East Carolina University professors have brought a mobile health van and wound clinic to some of the poorest people in northern India....

Dec 18, 2008
  • ECU News Services

ECU awarded Carnegie distinction

East Carolina University has become one of only 195 institutions nationwide to receive the “community engagement” classification from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The foundation, widely known...

Dec 17, 2008
  • ECU News Services

New book by ECU geographer examines Civil Rights memorials

A new book co-authored by an East Carolina University geographer looks at how America remembers Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights movement in public places. In “Civil Rights...

Dec 17, 2008
  • Doug Boyd

Long-lost cemetery handled with care before work starts on dental school

Before heavy equipment rolls in and starts pounding the ground, a gentler and more meticulous bit of digging had to be done on the site of the new East Carolina...

Dec 15, 2008
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

ECU to test outdoor notification system

East Carolina University is scheduled on Dec. 16 to begin testing in preparation for installing outdoor speakers throughout campus. The test is the first step in the installation of an...

Dec 13, 2008
  • Christine Neff

Graduates, families celebrate at ECU’s 100th fall commencement

Excited, soon-to-be graduates of East Carolina University paraded into the Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum Dec. 13 to loud applause from family and friends. “Thank you for such a great...

Dec 12, 2008
  • Christine Neff

Trustees approve tuition, fee increase

The East Carolina University Board of Trustees approved an increase in tuition and fees for the 2009-10 academic year at a special meeting held Dec. 11. For undergraduate students, trustees...

Dec 11, 2008
  • Doug Boyd

ECU, PCMH dedicate East Carolina Heart Institute

Officials from East Carolina University and University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina dedicated the East Carolina Heart Institute today. Several hundred invited guests joined leaders from the two organizations to...