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Apr 27, 2006
  • Doug Boyd

Silent, stunning Chernobyl stirs emotions for ECU group

KIEV, UKRAINE  —   A group from East Carolina University traveled today to the site of the world's worst nuclear meltdown and the deserted towns nearby and came away with...

Apr 27, 2006
  • ECU News Services

DOWDY TO JOIN ECU AS ADVANCEMENT LEADER

GREENVILLE, NC   —   Michael B. "Mickey" Dowdy, chief development officer of the Medical Campus at Virginia Commonwealth University, has been named vice chancellor for university advancement at East...

Apr 26, 2006
  • Doug Boyd

Chernobyl tragedy, lessons remembered in Ukraine

KIEV, UKRAINE  —   Twenty years after the world's worst nuclear disaster, citizens here in the capital of Ukraine call the event a "catastrophe" but add that nuclear power is...

Apr 26, 2006
  • ECU News Services

ECU geographer to study latino migration with NSF grant

GREENVILLE, NC  —   An East Carolina University professor of geography received at $430,000 National Science Foundation grant to study how the Latino presence in eastern North Carolina affects the...

Apr 26, 2006
  • ECU News Services

Professor selected for academic fellowship in Israel

GREENVILLE, NC —   Mark Jones, a professor of criminal justice studies at East Carolina University, will travel to Israel this summer as a fellow with the Foundation for the...

Apr 25, 2006
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

Golf tournament to raise funds to benefit ECU transplant surgery program

GREENVILLE —   The family of a man who benefited from a kidney transplant in 1998 plans to hold its first golf tournament to honor his memory and to raise...

Apr 25, 2006
  • ECU News Services

Professor donates literature of the fantastic collection to Joyner library

GREENVILLE, NC   —   A recent donation to Joyner Library’s Special Collections at East Carolina University is both fantastic in size and subject. ECU English professor Roger Schlobin recently...

Apr 24, 2006
  • Doug Boyd

Students meet with international nuclear experts

VIENNA, AUSTRIA  —   Nuclear power is on the upswing, with anywhere from 16 to 140 new power plants possible worldwide within the next two decades, and a group of...

Apr 24, 2006
  • Crystal Baity

Andrews assumes new role in the School of Nursing

GREENVILLE  —   Dr. Alta Andrews has been appointed associate dean for community partnerships and practice in the East Carolina University School of Nursing effective April 17. In addition, she...

Apr 20, 2006
  • ECU News Services

ECU professors show magazine ads send different health messages

GREENVILLE, NC —   Ads found in Cosmopolitan and Essence magazines send readers two very different health messages, according to two East Carolina communication professors. “The messages are: Be really...