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Jul 14, 2004
  • Crystal Baity

Nursing school receives $647,000 to train family nurse practitioners online

GREENVILLE, N.C.   (July 14, 2004)   —   The School of Nursing at East Carolina University has received a grant for $647,138 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to...

Jul 14, 2004
  • ECU News Services

Teens sought for fitness study

(July 14, 2004)   —   Experts believe achieving fitness is usually the result of two things: eating less and doing more. In an effort to curb the growing waistlines...

Jul 14, 2004
  • ECU News Services

ECU’s Engineering program at capacity

(July 14, 2004)   —   The new engineering program at East Carolina University is filled for the fall semester. Thirty-nine students will begin studies this fall as part of...

Jul 14, 2004
  • ECU News Services

EC heat stress study aids migrant workers

GREENVILLE, NC   (July 14, 2004)   —   Researchers at East Carolina University and the N.C. Agromedicine Institute will soon complete a study that explores how hot weather affects migrant...

Jul 12, 2004
  • ECU News Services

ECU students to study campus wetlands

GREENVILLE, NC   (July 12, 2004)   —   A $60,000 grant from the National Science Foundation is allowing ECU students to explore the ecological composition of the land at East...

Jul 06, 2004
  • Doug Boyd

Grants to help fund health programs

GREENVILLE, N.C.   (July 6, 2004)   —   East Carolina University programs such as a diabetes fellowship for physicians and a pediatric healthy weight program were among local projects that...

Jul 02, 2004
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

Cascio joins ECU to lead cardiology division

GREENVILLE, N.C.   (July 2, 2004)   —   Bringing with him nearly two decades of research and clinical experience, Dr. Wayne Cascio has joined the Brody School of Medicine at...

Jul 01, 2004
  • ECU News Services

ECU’s Walker Center receives donation

(July 1, 2004)   —   A grant from the Pitt Memorial Hospital Foundation will enable the Walker Center at East Carolina University to bring bowling, horseback riding and adaptive...

Jun 21, 2004
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

Fellowship address diabetes in region

GREENVILLE, N.C.   (June 21, 2004)   —   To help alleviate the shortage of diabetes specialists in eastern North Carolina, a one-year diabetes fellowship for primary care physicians has been...

Jun 21, 2004
  • Crystal Baity

Governor says widening N.C. 43 will aid medical district, eastern N.C.

GREENVILLE, N.C.   (June 21, 2004)   —   Improving access to Greenville’s medical district will continue with upgrades to N.C. 43 between Memorial Drive and Edgecombe County, said Gov. Mike...