News Archives

Feb 07, 2006
  • ECU News Services

Ewen edits book, pens chapter on the archaeology of piracy

GREENVILLE, NC —   When underwater archeologists search for pirate ships, buried treasure and silk-eye patches don’t often make their artifact list. That’s because, despite what film or literature might...

Feb 02, 2006
  • Doug Boyd

Statewide project aims to improve care for heart-attack patients

GREENVILLE, N.C.   —   Doctors, nurses and other heart-attack experts will discuss eastern North Carolina's participation in a statewide project aimed at improving cardiac care during a press conference...

Jan 26, 2006
  • Doug Boyd

Programs receive $555,000 from Golden LEAF

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   Three projects involving East Carolina University have received a total of $555,000 in grants from the Golden LEAF Foundation. The grants will help fund a math...

Jan 19, 2006
  • ECU News Services

NSF grants enable ECU to study Katrina’s economic impact

GREENVILLE, NC —   The Center for Natural Hazards Research at East Carolina University received more than $200,000 in grants from the National Science Foundation this month to study the...

Jan 18, 2006
  • Crystal Baity

Event focuses on causes, cure of obesity in African-Americans

GREENVILLE —   The public is invited to attend the second annual Jean Mills African-American Health Symposium to be held Friday, Feb. 10. The event will focus on causes and...

Jan 11, 2006
  • Crystal Baity

Eastern AHEC receives $326,713 from Duke Endowment for school mental health project

GREENVILLE —   The Eastern Area Health Education Center will expand its school mental health project with a grant of $181,853 recently awarded by The Duke Endowment. Another grant of...

Jan 09, 2006
  • ECU News Services

Finnish University Leaders visit ECU

GREENVILLE, NC—   A delegation from a Finnish university will visit East Carolina University Friday (Jan. 13). The president and administrators of the University of Oulu will meet with ECU...

Jan 06, 2006
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

Four projects receive $275,500 in Brody Brothers research grants

GREENVILLE, N.C. —   Four research projects led by faculty at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University have received $275,500 in grants from the Brody Brothers Foundation...

Jan 04, 2006
  • ECU News Services

UNC Semester in Washington welcomed four ECU students

GREENVILLE, NC   —   Students from East Carolina University spent the summer interning at ABC News, the National Institutes of Health and the Federal Reserve Bank as part of...

Jan 04, 2006
  • ECU News Services

ECU to mark MLK day with Tutu lecture, volunteerism

GREENVILLE, NC - The daughter of famed South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu will visit Greenville in observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. Naomi Tutu will speak at 7 p.m.,...