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Sep 26, 2006
  • ECU News Services

Professors receive $158,000 grant to expand Asian Studies at East Carolina University

GREENVILLE, NC  —   The U.S. Department of Education has awarded EastCarolina University a $158,000 grant to develop and expand the university’s Asian Studies program. The two-year award allows for...

Sep 22, 2006
  • ECU News Services

ECU historian revisits GOP effort to give blacks vote

GREENVILLE, NC  —   In his new book, Charles Calhoun revisits the question of the role Republicans played to extend voting rights to blacks in the South during the years...

Sep 18, 2006
  • Crystal Baity

Opening celebration set for Sept. 22 at ECU’s new Health Sciences Building

GREENVILLE, N.C.   —   Chancellor Steve Ballard and the East Carolina University Board of Trustees will celebrate the opening of the $66 million Health Sciences Building at 11:30 a.m....

Sep 14, 2006
  • Doug Boyd

Grant of $800,000 to help fund community health center

GREENVILLE, N.C.   —   An $800,000 federal grant will help fund operating costs for a local community health center set to open in December. The James D. Bernstein Community...

Sep 11, 2006
  • ECU News Services

ECU host Third Eastern North Carolina Literary Homecoming

Authors and readers from North Carolina will convene at East Carolina University Sept. 29-30 for the Third Eastern North Carolina Literary Homecoming. The annual free event, offered by ECU’s J.Y....

Sep 09, 2006
  • ECU News Services

ECU Reduces petroleum consumption on campus

GREENVILLE, NC  —   East Carolina University has taken another step to reduce petroleum product consumption on campus by using to re-refined motor oil for vehicles. “Re-refining is the reuse...

Sep 08, 2006
  • ECU News Services

Soldier’s autobiography provides historical insights

GREENVILLE, NC  —   Jonathan Dembo found fascinating the collected writings of Brig. Gen. George McIver, a post-Civil War general from North Carolina. McIver’s manuscripts, housed in East Carolina University's...

Aug 29, 2006
  • Doug Boyd

Plan sets goals to reduce obesity in county, state

GREENVILLE, N.C.   —   State and local agencies, schools, businesses, health care professionals and others will have to work together to help turn the tide of obesity, according to...

Aug 28, 2006
  • Crystal Baity

Krupa appointed honorary U.S. Navy nurse

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   East Carolina University School of Nursing assistant professor Karen Krupa was recently appointed honorary lieutenant junior grade in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps. Krupa first became...

Aug 28, 2006
  • ECU News Services

ECU Chemist receives Harriot College honor

GREENVILLE, NC  —   Robert C. Morrison was named the 2006 distinguished professor of the Harriot College of Arts and Sciences. A longtime professor of chemistry at East Carolina University,...