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...
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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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...