News Archives

Oct 08, 2008
  • Crystal Baity

Father’s brain cancer leads student to Chicago Marathon

East Carolina University student Erin McClure is running in the Chicago Marathon on Oct. 12 in her father's memory and to raise money for the American Brain Tumor Association. Erin...

Oct 08, 2008
  • Doug Boyd

Experts discuss problems, solutions to health care system

The U.S. health care system needs to rein in costs, improve quality and increase access for people without health insurance, but the path toward those goals is as cloudy as...

Oct 08, 2008
  • Crystal Baity

Oct. 27 symposium focuses on rehabilitation challenges facing military personnel, veterans and their dependents

East Carolina University will host a symposium Oct. 27 focusing on the challenges of wartime military personnel returning from deployment. Some challenges are health-related, such as recovery from blast injuries...

Oct 07, 2008
  • ECU News Services

Crowd welcomes Palin to ECU

Gov. Sarah Palin’s visit to East Carolina University’s Minges Coliseum Oct. 7 was standing room only as more than 8,000 supporters welcomed the Republican vice presidential nominee. “I understand your...

Oct 06, 2008
  • ECU News Services

ECU chemist receives NIH grant

Colin S. Burns, assistant professor of biochemistry and biophysics at East Carolina University, has received an Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) from the National Institutes of Health to support research...

Oct 03, 2008
  • ECU News Services

Coastal hazards web site developed by ECU experts

A new website developed by coastal experts at East Carolina University provides a high-tech, one-stop site for information about hurricanes, storm surges and their potential effects on the North Carolina...

Oct 01, 2008
  • Doug Boyd

Through the mouth? New surgeries promise faster recovery, fewer scars

When Cheryl Taylor needed a common follow-up procedure to her gastric-bypass surgery, she learned about a new procedure that would not involve cutting through her skin. Instead, surgeons would operate...

Oct 01, 2008
  • Crystal Baity

Reader’s Theater explores family relationships in a forced living arrangement

Students in the Brody School of Medicine and the College of Nursing will present a Reader's Theater performance of the short story "Breathing" on Thursday, Oct. 23, at 5:15 p.m....

Oct 01, 2008
  • ECU News Services

NC archeologists convene at ECU; public invited

North Carolina archeologists will gather at East Carolina University next week to discuss recent research in the coastal plain. A symposium, “Twenty-five Years and Counting: Current Archeological Research in the...

Sep 30, 2008
  • Doug Boyd

Projects receive Brody Brothers research grants

Research projects led by faculty at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, including one that exposes medical students to a summer of investigation, have received grants totaling...