News Archives

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.,...

Dec 30, 2005
  • Doug Boyd

Food literacy training begins Jan. 21

People who want to know more about healthful eating and food preparation can enroll in the Food Literacy Partners training program that begins Jan. 21. This free program teaches participants...

Dec 29, 2005
  • Doug Boyd

Gift endows lecture series at Brody School of Medicine

A new endowed lecture series that honors a pioneering neurosurgeon will bring top medical speakers to the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. The series will honor Dr....

Dec 28, 2005
  • Crystal Baity

ECU faculty member awarded $1.4 million NIH grant to study dizziness, imbalance

An East Carolina University associate professor has been awarded a five-year, $1.4 million research grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue her study into the role genes may...