News Archives

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...

Nov 28, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU sculptor wins best in show

Hanna Jubran, a sculpture professor at East Carolina University, was awarded best in show this month for his work, Mountain Landscape. Jubran won the Great Eastern Management Prize for Best...

Nov 28, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU names director of International Programs

Creating a stronger international presence at East Carolina University will not only help to foster better ties with people and institutions worldwide, Terry Rodenberg said, it will also help its...

Nov 16, 2005
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

Gastric bypass surgery subject of Webcast

Surgeons from East Carolina University performed a gastric-bypass operation live on the Internet Tuesday at Pitt County Memorial Hospital. Dr. Kenneth G. MacDonald moderated the surgery for viewers as Dr....