News Archives

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...

Jun 03, 2005
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

Camps allow 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...

May 28, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU Offers Security Studies program

A new security studies program at East Carolina University has already drawn interest from dozens of students. Combining elements from the departments of political science, environmental health, planning, public administration...

May 27, 2005
  • ECU News Services

New technology helps patients with esophageal cancer

The photodynamic therapy team at the Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center added to its list of accomplishments recently by treating a patient with esophageal cancer. A 76-year-old woman became the...

May 25, 2005
  • Crystal Baity

Physical therapy clinic opens at Firetower Medical Office

ECU Physical Therapy, a new outpatient orthopedic physical therapy clinic, has opened at ECU Physicians Firetower Medical Office on Fire Tower Road in Winterville. The clinic, owned by East Carolina...