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Aug 21, 2008
  • Crystal Baity

Distinguished professorship first in College of Allied Health Sciences

Dr. Marianna Walker has been named recipient of the Barbara W. Bremer Distinguished Professorship in Language Learning and Literacy Disorders in East Carolina University's Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders....

Aug 21, 2008
  • ECU News Services

Pre-events, workshops mark ECU’s literary homecoming

Through both word and song, East Carolina University will celebrate the region’s literary traditions September 26 and 27. The Eastern North Carolina Literary Homecoming at Joyner Library, now in its...

Aug 15, 2008
  • Doug Boyd

Brody welcomes Class of 2012

Seventy-six new medical students capped their first week at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University today as they received their symbolic white coats. This class is the...

Aug 13, 2008
  • Doug Boyd

Annual white coat ceremony scheduled for Friday

The Class of 2012 of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University will be welcomed officially at 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 15, during the annual white coat ceremony....

Aug 13, 2008
  • ECU News Services

East Carolina welcomes students

East Carolina University expects another record number of students for the fall semester, which officially begins with the annual faculty convocation on Monday. Students will begin moving into campus residence...

Aug 06, 2008
  • ECU News Services

Poorman named director of financial aid at ECU

Julie L. Poorman, a veteran administrator of student financial services, has been named director of financial aid at East Carolina University. Poorman joined ECU on Aug. 1 from Berklee College...

Aug 04, 2008
  • ECU News Services

ECU students, faculty preview Olympic facilities

Thirteen students and four faculty members from East Carolina University’s Department of Construction Management had the chance to preview the 2008 Olympic facilities on a study abroad trip to China...

Aug 04, 2008
  • ECU News Services

Beijing Bound: ECU grad aims for Paralympic gold

Elexis Gillette vowed to “up” his game when he won a silver medal in the long jump at the 2004 Paralymic Games in Athens. “After getting that medal, I thought,...

Aug 04, 2008
  • ECU News Services

Olympic perspectives: ECU professors, students on the Beijing games

The world’s attention will turn to Beijing, China, this month for the 2008 Olympic games. While scholars debate what that means for China and the world, they tend to agree...

Aug 01, 2008
  • Doug Boyd

Hupp named to lead dental school at ECU

Dr. James R. Hupp, dean of the dental school at the University of Mississippi for the last six years, will be the founding dean of the new School of Dentistry...