News Archives

Jan 09, 2004
  • ECU News Services

Grant aims to curb domestic abuse

GREENVILLE, NC   (Jan. 9, 2004)   —   A $10,000 state grant will enable an East Carolina University professor to continue to help pregnant women and their families in eastern...

Jan 06, 2004
  • ECU News Services

Frye to speak at MLK event

GREENVILLE, NC   (Jan. 6, 2004)   —   In observance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, Justice Henry Frye, the first African American elected to the North Carolina General...

Dec 30, 2003
  • ECU News Services

ECU off-campus master of social work programs announced

East Carolina University will hold an orientation program on Jan. 15 for individuals interested in a new off-campus master of social work program that will be offered in New Bern....

Dec 19, 2003
  • ECU News Services

ECU teacher training yields national award for students

East Carolina University's efforts to show teachers how to teach science and math by using computer models have paid off. As a result of the training expertise offered at conferences...

Dec 18, 2003
  • Doug Boyd

Physician donates salary to promote palliative care

The patient, a man in his 70s, was dying. All the treatments that seemed reasonable to try had been attempted, and they hadn’t worked. Death was inevitable. The doctors knew...

Dec 18, 2003
  • ECU News Services

ECU professor featured on Discovery channel

The Discovery Channel will feature East Carolina University professor Dr. David Long on its "Unsolved History" program scheduled to air Feb. 4 at 9 p.m. Long, who specializes in Civil...

Dec 17, 2003
  • ECU News Services

ECU, UHS summit aims to improve quality of life in eastern N.C.

Hoping to do more to support economic development in eastern North Carolina, health system and university leaders caucused with regional boosters of every stripe at a "quality-of-life summit" Dec. 4...

Dec 16, 2003
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

Craftsman begins work on bookcases for library

A second-generation classic cabinetmaker has begun making the bookcases to house the historic book collection of the Laupus Health Sciences Library. Paul Gianino studied with his father for years and...

Dec 16, 2003
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

Scientist honored with university award

A professor of pharmacology and toxicology at the Brody School of Medicine has received East Carolina University's highest research honor. Dr. S. Jamal Mustafa is the 2003 recipient of the...

Dec 16, 2003
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

Amowitz looking to improve the world, one day at a time

Lynn Lieberman Amowitz remembers trying to give her winter coat to another child in sixth grade. "I perceived the child as poor, and I kept giving the kid my coat....