News Archives

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...

Oct 06, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU’s online programs receive top rankings

East Carolina University’s distance education programs received top rankings from an organization that evaluates online degree programs. GetEducated.com, ranked ECU’s online MBA and computer science degree programs No. 1 nationally....

Oct 04, 2005
  • Crystal Baity

New Orleans physician discusses Hurricane Katrina disaster at 2005 Trauma Symposium

A New Orleans physician will discuss his recent experience with Hurricane Katrina during the second annual Eastern Regional Trauma Symposium Friday, Oct. 7 at the Greenville Hilton. About 175 people...

Oct 04, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU to celebrate local authors at Eastern NC literary fest

East Carolina University will welcome authors and readers from across the region Oct. 14-15 at the Second Eastern North Carolina Literary Homecoming. The annual free event, offered by ECU’s J.Y....