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Dec 20, 2005
  • ECU News Services

Wetherington named university attorney

Kitty H. Wetherington, who has served as interim university attorney at East Carolina University since March, has been named university attorney, effective immediately. Chancellor Steve Ballard said, “Kitty Wetherington has...

Dec 19, 2005
  • ECU News Services

NYC’S 92ND St. art center honors ECU’s Ebendorf

East Carolina University artist Robert Ebendorf was recently honored for leadership and achievement in American art by New York City's prestigious 92nd Street Y Art Center. Ebendorf was one of...

Dec 09, 2005
  • ECU News Services

EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY GRADUATES 2,200 STUDENTS

About 2,200 candidates graduated Saturday from East Carolina University. Phil Dixon, former chair of the East Carolina University Board of Trustees and a noted Greenville attorney and civic leader, was...

Dec 08, 2005
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

Research shows chemotherapy after surgery helps endometrial cancer patients

A new study, led by an ECU physician, shows that giving two chemotherapy drugs to women with advanced endometrial cancer after surgery reduces the risk of recurrence by 29 percent...

Dec 08, 2005
  • Crystal Baity

Ensley elected to three-year term on North Carolina Humanities Council

East Carolina University faculty member Donald E. Ensley has been elected to a three-year term on the North Carolina Humanities Council. Ensley is assistant vice chancellor for community engagement at...

Dec 07, 2005
  • ECU News Services

Fort Bragg education center offers classes on base, during deployment

The next time Alberto Morrison deploys for Iraq, his business courses from East Carolina University will go with him. Based in Fort Bragg, Morrison is working toward a bachelor’s degree...

Dec 05, 2005
  • ECU News Services

Professor develops virtual reality-based course

When Professor Moha Tabrizi tried on his new sensory suit in East Carolina University’s Technology Innovation Lab, he wasn’t looking to create a movie or video game for Nintendo or...

Dec 02, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU historian pens book about eastern N.C. Native Americans

Until last month, little had been published about the history of the Native American tribes in eastern North Carolina. In his new book,Keeping the Circle: American Indian Identity in Eastern...

Dec 02, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU offers book arts courses

In the age of automation, the idea of crafting a hand-stitched, personally bound book might seem like a mere footpath on the information superhighway. But in the printmaking room at...

Dec 02, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU students, professor rescued by U.S. Coast Guard

An East Carolina University biologist and two students were rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard Friday morning after their research boat sunk in the Albemarle Sound. Biology professor Roger Rulifson...