News Archives

Jun 18, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU announces football schedule through 2013

Beginning in 2006, East Carolina University will initiate an unprecedented eight-year, 25-game non-conference football scheduling agreement with a number of Bowl Championship Series' opponents according to an announcement from athletics...

Jun 17, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU historian examines child apprenticeship laws

Apprentice labor laws in North Carolina existed as a means to control the composition and character of families, to provide sources of cheap labor and to ensure a white patriarchal...

Jun 17, 2005
  • ECU News Services

Parents donate 10,000 towards campus safety

An East Carolina University parents group has donated $10,000 toward the new campus safety department. The grant from ECU’s Parents Council will support safety workshops, forums and other events sponsored...

Jun 16, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU divers research sunken union gunboat in blackout conditions

With visibility of three to four inches on good day and near-darkness when clouds block the sun, maritime studies students at East Carolina University recently practiced one of the strengths...

Jun 16, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU joins regional ecosystems pact

East Carolina University has joined a regional consortium designed to foster ties between universities and federal resource management programs. ECU’s inclusion into the Piedmont-South Atlantic Coast Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit...

Jun 15, 2005
  • Doug Boyd

ECU physician first to use new device to open airway

A 55-year-old New Bern woman with cancer was the first U.S. patient to receive a new device designed to help keep her airway open during a procedure last Thursday in...

Jun 14, 2005
  • ECU News Services

White named dean of Arts and Sciences

Alan White, dean of the College of Science and Mathematics at North Dakota State University, has been named dean of the Harriot College of Arts and Sciences at East Carolina...

Jun 14, 2005
  • ECU News Services

Nine ECU medical students chosen as N.C. Schweitzer fellows

Nine students of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University have been chosen as North Carolina Schweitzer Fellows for 2005-06. In total, 22 North Carolina students in schools...

Jun 13, 2005
  • Doug Boyd

ECU dialysis technology earns a top spot in business plan competition

A business plan for a kidney dialysis technology devised at East Carolina University was one of two winners at the 12th annual $10K Business Plan Competition managed by the Entrepreneurship...

Jun 06, 2005
  • Doug Boyd

Local students to participate in health careers program

Twenty-two rising 10th graders from across eastern North Carolina have been selected to participate in the 12th annual Ventures Into Health Careers Institute at East Carolina University. The two-week program...