News Archives

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...

Feb 04, 2005
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

Governor appoints Horns, Johnson to N.C. IOM

Gov. Mike Easley has appointed two East Carolina University deans to the North Carolina Institute of Medicine. Dr. Phyllis Horns, dean of the School of Nursing, and Dr. Cynda Johnson,...

Feb 03, 2005
  • ECU News Services

International recruiting sparks ECU interest on U.S. German bases

Iceland native and East Carolina University admissions officer Jenny Sigurdardottier is used to bare-minimum knowledge about her homeland. "They said Greenland's ice and Iceland's green," she said, the elementary idiom...

Feb 03, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU UNVEILS MLK PAMPHLET, WELCOMES CIVIL RIGHTS AUTHOR

Jonathan Tilove, a race and immigration reporter and author of Along Martin Luther King: Travels on Black America's Main Streets, will speak about the slain Civil Rights hero at 7...

Jan 26, 2005
  • ECU News Services

ECU communication professor to promote diversity projects

Rebecca Dumlao, a professor of communication at East Carolina University, was chosen to serve on a nationwide classroom diversity promotion project for the National Communication Association. Dumlao, as part of...