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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...

Apr 19, 2006
  • ECU News Services

ECU’s School of Music announces new director

J. Christopher Buddo will assume the directorship of East Carolina University’s School of Music June 1. Buddo, who currently serves as associate dean for administrative affairs and director of the...