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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...