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...
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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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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. 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...