News Archives

Mar 03, 2005
  • ECU News Services

Finalist named in ECU diversity post

Three finalists for the position of assistant to the chancellor for institutional diversity will visit the East Carolina University campus this month. The candidates are Sallye McKee of Eagan, Minn.,...

Mar 01, 2005
  • Doug Boyd

Army awards Bronze Star to ECU surgeon

Dr. P.J. Schenarts, an assistant professor of surgery with the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University who is currently deployed on active military duty, has received the Bronze...

Feb 28, 2005
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

ECU researchers study snakebite first aid options

In the movies, a poisonous snake in the woods bites a teen, and his friends tie a tourniquet around his leg and drive him to a hospital. There, he is...

Feb 25, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU attorney asked to resign

Chancellor Steve Ballard said that he has asked University Attorney Ben Irons to resign from his administrative position with East Carolina University. "It is time to make a change in...

Feb 23, 2005
  • ECU News Services

Dr. Frederick Niswander Recognized By Conference USA

Dr. Frederick Niswander, the Dean of the College of Business at East Carolina University, has been awarded the 2004-05 recipient of the Conference USA Award of Excellence. Niswander will receive...

Feb 22, 2005
  • ECU News Services

Shelton to take on new role at ECU

Shelton, who led the development of a similar program at Eastern Michigan University, said preparing such leaders is especially critical now because of the large number of coming retirements among...

Feb 22, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU Confirms Meeting With Basketball Coach Bill Herrion

East Carolina University has confirmed that director of athletics Terry Holland has asked head men's basketball coach Bill Herrion to relinquish his position at the conclusion of the current season...

Feb 20, 2005
  • ECU News Services

Candidates for two vice chancellorships interviewed

Candidates for two vice chancellorships have begun visiting the campus to meet with faculty, staff, administrators and students. Search committees have identified the finalists for the provost and vice chancellor...

Feb 15, 2005
  • Doug Boyd

Dr. William Laupus, former ECU medical dean, dies

Dr. William Laupus, who came to the East Carolina University School of Medicine two years before it admitted its first four-year class of medical students and led the school as...

Feb 07, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU historians celebrate Lincoln

ECU history professors David Long and Gerald Prokopowicz, both members of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission Advisory Board, are among a group invited to the White House Feb. 11 for...