News Archives

Mar 14, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU hosts fisheries conference

The past, present and future state of fishing communities will be the subject of a conference scheduled at East Carolina University on March 18. Anthropologists and researchers from the National...

Mar 14, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU faculty senate celebrates 40th anniversary

With 40 years of shared governance at their disposal, members of East Carolina University's Faculty Senate will observe the organization's 40th anniversary at the March 22 meeting. "When you look...

Mar 11, 2005
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

Clinton’s lead surgeon is ECU medical school graduate

he chest surgeon who led the team that operated on former President Bill Clinton has strong eastern North Carolina ties. Dr. Joshua Sonett graduated with honors from East Carolina University’s...

Mar 04, 2005
  • ECU News Services

Academy honors music professor with fellowship

Edward Jacobs, a music professor at East Carolina University, has won the $15,000 Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Founded in 1898, the academy annually...

Mar 04, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU to provide distance learning classes to Fort Bragg

East Carolina University will begin providing university coursework in August to military personnel and dependents at Fort Bragg in Fayetteville. The university is one of 10 schools selected to offer...

Mar 03, 2005
  • Doug Boyd

Rotondo to head national trauma group

Dr. Michael F. Rotondo, interim chairman of the Department of Surgery at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, has been elected president of the Eastern Association for...

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...