News Archives

Dec 14, 2000
  • ECU News Services

ECU professor receives honor for his interest in the nation’s birth

Dr. Lawrence E. Babits, an East Carolina University maritime history professor who says he's more partial to the plight of 18th century soldiers and sailors than to early aristocrats with...

Dec 11, 2000
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

ECU surgeons to lead FDA multi-center robotic surgery trial

Cardiac surgeons at University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina will lead a national multi-center clinical trial using the da Vinci Surgical System for mitral valve repair. Dr. W. Randolph Chitwood...

Dec 09, 2000
  • ECU News Services

Eakin delivers fall 2000 commencement address

In his last graduation ceremony as the Chancellor of East Carolina University, Dr. Richard Eakin offered inspiration and advice to the 2,400 graduates at ECU's fall commencement on Saturday, Dec....

Dec 08, 2000
  • ECU News Services

ECU trustees endorse student fee increases

The ECU Board of Trustees has endorsed required student fee increases totaling $51 for the 2001-2002 academic year. The total required fees for next year, if they are approved by...

Dec 08, 2000
  • ECU News Services

Trustees approve master plans

The ECU Board of Trustees on Friday (Nov. 8) approved new master plans for the East Campus and the Health Sciences Campus and signed off on the concept for the...

Dec 07, 2000
  • ECU News Services

Math teacher program receives national honor

The U.S. Department of Education announced today (Dec. 7) that East Carolina University is a winner of the department's new National Awards Program for Effective Teacher Preparation. In a ceremony...

Dec 07, 2000
  • ECU News Services

ECU math prep gets award

The U.S. Department of Education announced today (Dec. 7) that East Carolina University is a winner of the department's new National Awards Program for Effective Teacher Preparation. In a ceremony...

Dec 05, 2000
  • Doug Boyd

EastCare transport program named best of year

EastCare, the critical-care transport unit of Pitt County Memorial Hospital, has been named program of the year by the Association of Air Medical Services, the international body for air and...

Dec 01, 2000
  • ECU News Services

Mattamuskeet field station to close

With the federal government's shutdown of the Lake Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge lodge, East Carolina University is considering other ways to maintain its Field Station for Coastal Studies at the...

Nov 30, 2000
  • ECU News Services

Chancellor Makes Interim Health Sciences Appointments

East Carolina University Chancellor Richard R. Eakin has appointed two senior university officials to succeed on an interim basis Dr. James A. Hallock, vice chancellor for health sciences and dean...