Camp allows sick children to just be kids
Each year children with cancer, hemophilia and sickle-cell disease are invited to special camps designed to accommodate their medical needs while still allowing them to enjoy being kids. Sponsored by...
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Boot camp offers dean close inspection of military life
Make no mistake about it. When they send you to boot camp, even as a civilian, you actually have to wear boots, as Marilyn Sheerer discovered late last month. Sheerer,...
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...
Data copied from ECU computer
Security on a departmentally managed server at East Carolina University was compromised, apparently leading to the unauthorized possession of personal information on about 250 individuals, university officials reported. The computer,...
Rotondo heads surgery department at ECU
Dr. Michael F. Rotondo has been named chairman of the Department of Surgery at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. Rotondo, a professor of surgery, had served...
Babb honored with distinguished service award
Dr. Joseph D. Babb of East Carolina University's Brody School of Medicine has received the Distinguished Service Award from the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions. The award is the...
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...
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...
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...
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...