News Archives

Oct 31, 2008
  • Peggy Novotny

ECU’s FoodMASTER program receives $504,000 NIH grant

East Carolina University researchers have received a $504,000 grant to study how K-12 students can use food to learn science, math and nutrition concepts. The National Center for Research Resources,...

Oct 31, 2008
  • ECU News Services

ECU opens North Recreational Complex

East Carolina University officially opened its newest student recreation facilities with lacrosse sticks, rugby balls, soccer cleats, ribbons and hot dogs. Chancellor Steve Ballard led the Oct. 30 ribbon-cutting for...

Oct 30, 2008
  • ECU News Services

ECU holds powwow, lectures for Native American Awareness Month

Native American Awareness Month will kick off at noon Saturday, Nov. 1, with a powwow at Mendenhall Student Center. Sponsored by ECU’s Native American fraternity, Epsilon Chi Nu, the powwow...

Oct 29, 2008
  • ECU News Services

Fire closes Bate Building for afternoon

A fire in a men's restroom closed the Bate Classroom Building for classes for most of the afternoon on Oct. 29. Greenville Fire and Rescue responded to the call at...

Oct 28, 2008
  • ECU News Services

ECU hosts former U.S. Comptroller General

The College of Business at East Carolina University will host The Honorable David M. Walker, former U.S. Comptroller General, as its fourth speaker in the Cunanan Leadership Speaker Series. Walker’s...

Oct 28, 2008
  • Crystal Baity

Multiple challenges face military personnel during and after war

Reintegration, readjustment and redeployment are some of the cyclical challenges facing military personnel during an extended war. But the residual effects will linger years after the war is over. A...

Oct 27, 2008
  • Christine Neff

ECU hosts first conference on Latino issues

Of 1,000 Latino students to start elementary school, 600 of them will finish high school, 83 will finish college and two will achieve doctoral degrees. According to Antonio Esquibel, keynote...

Oct 27, 2008
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

V.P. candidate Joe Biden visits ECU

Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) visited East Carolina University Oct. 27 to rally voters in support of Barack Obama's presidential campaign. The vice presidential candidate took the stage outside ECU's Mendenhall...

Oct 24, 2008
  • ECU News Services

Early voting begins at ECU’s Newman Center

At least 60 voters lined up before 11 a.m., Oct. 24, at ECU’s one-stop, early voting site at the campus’ Newman Center. Regularly home to ECU’s Catholic community, the chapel...

Oct 24, 2008
  • Doug Boyd

Brody School of Medicine recognizes leaders who helped establish school

East Carolina University officials unveiled a painting Oct. 23 honoring 41 people who worked to bring a medical school to a rural university in eastern North Carolina. Dr. Paul Cunningham,...