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Oct 22, 2008
  • ECU News Services

Richmond Fed panelists to speak at ECU foreclosure forum

Hard hit by job losses in the manufacturing industry, North Carolina knows about difficult economic times. But the meltdown of the subprime mortgage market and the ever-increasing credit crunch has...

Oct 21, 2008
  • Christine Neff

ECU students design Wounded Warrior barracks

Interior design students at East Carolina University have been tasked with designing “barracks of the future” that can accommodate the needs of wounded, injured and ill Marines in the U.S....

Oct 17, 2008
  • ECU News Services

ECU professor receives UNC Board of Governors award for public service

Dr. Lessie L. Bass, associate professor of social work and director of the Lucille Gorham Intergenerational Center at East Carolina University, received the Award for Excellence in Public Service today...

Oct 17, 2008
  • ECU News Services

BB&T honors Ken Chalk with gift to ECU

BB&T Corp. today announced a $250,000 gift to East Carolina University to honor former Chief Credit Officer W. Kendall Chalk's 33 years of service to BB&T. The gift will endow...

Oct 17, 2008
  • Crystal Baity

Health care policies of political parties to be examined Oct. 28

Alisa Evans Debnam, executive director of the Council for Allied Health of North Carolina, will present an unbiased view of the health care policies of the Democratic and Republican parties...

Oct 15, 2008
  • ECU News Services

Sheerer named provost

Dr. Marilyn Sheerer, a veteran leader at East Carolina University, has been named provost and senior vice chancellor for academic and student affairs. Chancellor Steve Ballard, announcing the appointment after...

Oct 15, 2008
  • ECU News Services

Holland’s contract amended

The East Carolina University Board of Trustees on Wednesday approved an amendment to Athletic Director Terry Holland’s contract to increase his salary by $32,400 to $356,400 a year. The board,...

Oct 10, 2008
  • ECU News Services

ECU hosts Latino education conference

The challenges facing Latino students will be the focus of East Carolina University’s first conference on Latino issues. The conference, “Building Leadership for Latino Access to Education,” will be held...

Oct 08, 2008
  • ECU News Services

Teachers in ECU’s TechMath program tour local businesses

Lynn Cox, an earth science teacher at J.H. Rose High School, hears it from her students all the time: “Why do I need to know this?” Too often, she said,...

Oct 08, 2008
  • Christine Neff

Election Perspectives: ECU political scientists on the presidential race

With less than a month to go in the 2008 presidential election, political scientists at East Carolina University discuss factors they believe will determine the outcome in the race between...