News Archives

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...

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...