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Feb 15, 2002
  • ECU News Services

ECU conference studies tobacco

GREENVILLE, NC   (Feb. 15, 2002)   —   A midway screamer at the state fair can't match the upside-down roller coaster ridden by tobacco farmers and rural communities in recent...

Feb 15, 2002
  • ECU News Services

ECU Founders Day and Installation

(Feb. 15, 2002)   —   ECU Founders Day festivities in March will center on the formal installation of Dr. William V. Muse as the 10th chief executive of the...

Feb 01, 2002
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

First class of “master educators” named at medical school

GREENVILLE, N.C.   (Feb. 1, 2002)   —   Recognizing their dedication to students and educational leadership, 10 faculty members at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University have...

Feb 01, 2002
  • Doug Boyd

Two young African Americans discuss Black History Month

GREENVILLE, N.C.   (Feb. 1, 2002)   —   Black History Month began more than 70 years ago as Negro History Week at Chicago's Wabash Street YMCA. The idea came from...

Feb 01, 2002
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

Literacy can affect health, compliance

GREENVILLE, N.C.   (Feb. 1, 2002)   —   Imagine living in a world where you speak the same language as those around you but you can't read signs, newspapers, books,...

Jan 31, 2002
  • ECU News Services

Trustees recommend tuition hike

(Jan. 31, 2002)   —   The East Carolina University Board of Trustees, spurred by the slumping national and state economies, today (Jan. 31) recommended a $400 tuition increase for...

Jan 31, 2002
  • ECU News Services

Chancellor to have Medical Procedure

(Jan. 31, 2002)   —   ECU Chancellor William V. Muse is scheduled to undergo a procedure Friday in Winston-Salem to clear a partially obstructed blood vessel. The procedure is...

Jan 18, 2002
  • ECU News Services

Chancellor announces administrative searches reorganizations

(Jan. 18, 2002)   —   Chancellor William V. Muse has appointed committees to lead the searches for two vice chancellors at East Carolina University and also has announced several...

Jan 09, 2002
  • ECU News Services

MLK programs planned at ECU

(Jan. 9, 2002)   —   Two former activists who played leadership roles in the 1960s civil rights movement will address Martin Luther King Jr. commemorative programs at East Carolina...

Dec 20, 2001
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

Carotid artery angioplasty offers patients alternative to surgery

GREENVILLE, N.C.   (Dec. 20, 2001)   —   Specialists at Pitt County Memorial Hospital are using a minimally invasive procedure to treat selected cases of carotid artery disease. The disease,...