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Jul 16, 2006
  • ECU News Services

Rigsby receives Fulbright Scholar Award

GREENVILLE, NC  —   ECU Geology professor Catherine A. Rigsby has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and conduct research at Universidade Federal do Pará in Belém,Brazil, during...

Jul 10, 2006
  • Crystal Baity

Nurse-midwifery program receives 10-year accreditation

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   The nurse-midwifery education program in the School of Nursing at East Carolina University has received 10-year accreditation. The Board of Review of the Division of Accreditation...

Jul 07, 2006
  • Doug Boyd

PCMH named a top endocrinology hospital by U.S. News & World Report

GREENVILLE  —   Pitt County Memorial Hospital, the teaching hospital of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, has been named among the nation's top 50 centers for...

Jun 27, 2006
  • Crystal Baity

Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust funds ECU health sciences projects

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   Health sciences faculty members at East Carolina University have been awarded three grants totaling $472,180 from the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust. · The School of...

Jun 24, 2006
  • ECU News Services

ECU researchers study effects of “Daily Show”

GREENVILLE, NC  —   College students who watch the satirical TV program, “The Daily Show,” are more skeptical and knowledgeable about politics and media, according to two East Carolina University...

Jun 16, 2006
  • Crystal Baity

Student midwives integrate technology with care through award given to ECU nurse faculty

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   An East Carolina University School of Nursing faculty member was awarded $5,000 from the Bayada Corp. through Drexel University for integrating technology into the midwifery curriculum....

Jun 15, 2006
  • Doug Boyd

TEDI BEAR Center receives grant topping $700,000

GREENVILLE, N.C. —   The TEDI BEAR Children's Advocacy Center in Greenville has received a three-year grant totaling $720,000 from the Duke Endowment. The Charlotte-based endowment announced its most recent...

Jun 15, 2006
  • ECU News Services

ECU students rediscovers rare millipede

GREENVILLE, NC  —   For nearly 80 years, the world’s leggiest millipede has remained elusive, hidden in the secluded forests of San Benito County in California. But Paul Marek, an...

Jun 15, 2006
  • ECU News Services

Scholarship honors ECU alumnus

GREENVILLE, NC —   A recent $210,000 donation to the East Carolina University Foundation, Inc. will establish a scholarship for foreign students to attend ECU. Rachael Newell of Burlington, N.C....

Jun 09, 2006
  • ECU News Services

Pirate ISP Radio Network Adds FM Flagship For Football

GREENVILLE, NC  —   The East Carolina University Athletics Department and ISP Sports, the new multimedia rights-holder for Pirate sports, have come to terms on a five-year agreement with Classic...