News Archives

Oct 25, 2005
  • Doug Boyd

New health center to serve uninsured

Officials broke ground in north Greenville today for a new community health center designed especially to serve the uninsured. The 15,000-square-foot, $2.8 million James D. Bernstein Community Health Center will...

Oct 24, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU test-drives hybrid bus

Bus drivers at East Carolina University had a chance to test-drive a hybrid bus Oct. 18 and 19. The 40-foot bus, manufactured by New Flyer, was equipped with a GM...

Oct 24, 2005
  • ECU News Services

Grant enables ECU biologist to study photosynthesis protein

A grant from the National Science Foundation has enabled an East Carolina University biologist to explore photosynthesis on the molecular level. The three-year grant, totaling nearly $280,000, allows Cindy Putnam-Evans...

Oct 19, 2005
  • Crystal Baity

SpeechEasy device to be featured on national TV

SpeechEasy, a device developed by three East Carolina University researchers to aid fluency in stutterers, will be featured Friday on the NBC-TV program "Three Wishes." The show, which grants wishes...

Oct 18, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU therapist studies links between scent and memory

An East Carolina University recreational therapist is exploring links between scent, memory and well being in people with Alzheimer’s disease. David Loy, a professor in the College of Health and...

Oct 17, 2005
  • Doug Boyd

Willson tapped to lead medical society

Dr. Charles Willson, a clinical professor of pediatrics at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, assumed the presidency of the North Carolina Medical Society at the group's...

Oct 14, 2005
  • ECU News Services

Asian earthquake affect students attending class

The deadly earthquake that ripped through South Asia Saturday took with it a university that had enabled Pakistani students to participate in a course offered through East Carolina University’s Global...

Oct 12, 2005
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

EAHEC receives $1.2 million federal grant

The Eastern Area Health Education Center has received the largest federal grant in its history for its Interdisciplinary Rural Health Training Program. The three-year, $1.24 million grant from the Bureau...

Oct 12, 2005
  • ECU News Services

Gift Provides Professorship For Religious Studies At ECU

The Religious Studies Program at East Carolina University received a gift Thursday intended to provide a third faculty member to the growing interdisciplinary program. The gift, announced at the annual...

Oct 10, 2005
  • ECU News Services

East Carolina Head Baseball Coach Randy Mazey Suspended

Randy Mazey, East Carolina University's head baseball coach for the past three seasons, has been suspended with pay effective immediately according to an announcement made Monday afternoon by director of...