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Sep 25, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU students launch effort with volunteerism

More than 1,000 first-year students from East Carolina University volunteered Sept. 24 while participating in ECU’s first-ever student leadership program. Pirates Partnering with Pitt will enable students enrolled in ECU’s...

Sep 23, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU geologists study effects of Katrina on ocean floor

East Carolina University researchers are evaluating the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the ocean floor in the Gulf region. As part of a $150,000 National Science Foundation grant, nine ECU...

Sep 23, 2005
  • ECU News Services

Pilot program connects Honduran migrant families electronically

A pilot program conducted by East Carolina University researchers aims to reduce the physical and mental stresses faced by migrant workers in the United States. El Puente, or The Bridge,...

Sep 22, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU’s Tinsley Yarbrough, Rehnquist expert

Tinsley Yarbrough, a longtime political scientist at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C., is the author of many books on Supreme Courtmembers and is available for interviews about the future...

Sep 19, 2005
  • Doug Boyd

Cruzan attorney to speak about end-of-life care Friday

The attorney who represented the family of Nancy Cruzan before the U.S. Supreme Court in a case that catapulted end-of-life issues to national attention will speak Friday, Sept. 23 at...

Sep 19, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU student leaders volunteer in Pitt County

More than 1,000 first-year students from East Carolina University volunteered Sept. 24 while participating in ECU’s first-ever student leadership program. Pirates Partnering with Pitt will enable students enrolled in ECU’s...

Sep 19, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU professor pens biography on Justice Souter

East Carolina University political science professor Tinsley Yarbrough has written the first biography about Supreme Court justice David Hackett Souter. In “David Hackett Souter: Traditional Republican on the Rehnquist Court”...

Sep 18, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU hosts march, activities for sexual assault awareness week

East Carolina University will hold a “Take Back the Night” rally tonight from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in observance of Sexual Assault Awareness Week. The march begins at Belk Hall...

Sep 18, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU hosts march, activities for sexual assault awareness week

East Carolina University will hold a “Take Back the Night” rally tonight from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in observance of Sexual Assault Awareness Week. The march begins at Belk Hall...

Sep 18, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU biologist calls for revival of long leaf pine savanna

An East Carolina biologist hopes to restore a long-leaf pine savanna to the University’s West Research Campus. Based on ecological surveys of the former Voice of America site, David Knowles...