News Archives

Nov 22, 2000
  • ECU News Services

ECU gets novelist’s scrapbook on Africa

A scrapbook compiled by the late novelist Inglis Fletcher about her trip to Africa in 1928 has been added to an extensive collection of documents about the author kept at...

Nov 20, 2000
  • ECU News Services

ECU honor society to hold public debate on testing

On the heels of discussion by presidential and gubernatorial candidates on making schools accountable for what students learn, East Carolina University will sponsor a public debate on Monday, Nov. 27,...

Nov 17, 2000
  • ECU News Services

Chancellor Search Panel completes initial interviews

The Chancellor Search Committee at East Carolina University has completed an initial round of interviews with candidates and plans to narrow the field soon. The committee's initial series of interviews,...

Nov 14, 2000
  • Doug Boyd

Blue Cross and Blue Shield, ECU partner in major effort to help uninsured

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, the state's largest health insurer, and the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University announced a joint effort Nov. 14 to...

Nov 09, 2000
  • Jeannine Manning Hutson

FDA approves second clinical trial for robotic heart surgery

Cardiac surgeons at University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina have been granted a second clinical trial from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to continue studying robotic surgery in the...

Nov 09, 2000
  • ECU News Services

Med School dean to leave

Dr. James A. Hallock, vice chancellor for health sciences at East Carolina University and dean of the Brody School of Medicine for the last 12 years, will be leaving the...

Nov 08, 2000
  • ECU News Services

ECU holds late-night celebration for bond passage

University officials cheered the passage of the higher education facilities bonds with a late-night celebration at the site of the Science and Technology Building on Tuesday (Nov. 7). Chancellor Richard...

Nov 02, 2000
  • ECU News Services

Chancellor Eakin to deliver fall commencement address

Dr. Richard Eakin, who will retire in 2001 after nearly 14 years as chancellor of East Carolina University, will deliver the featured address at fall commencement on Dec. 9. The...

Oct 29, 2000
  • ECU News Services

Ward joins ECU’s Board of Trustees

Margaret C. Ward of Burlington, a noted civic leader and a longtime supporter of East Carolina University, has been a member of the Board of Trustees since she was appointed...

Oct 25, 2000
  • ECU News Services

ECU archaeology team to dig for Gov. Caswell grave

The words on a partially dismantled grave marker in a historic residential section of Kinston say the deceased "is not dead but sleepeth." And a few feet away, people grind...