News Archives

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...

Oct 19, 2000
  • ECU News Services

ECU Bermuda field school digs into shipwreck

Don’t let the name fool you! Bermuda’s Iron Knee Shipwreck is not about sailors with peg legs, or even about seafaring legends and the like, but it’s a mystery ship...

Oct 19, 2000
  • ECU News Services

Future of Faith topic for ECU’s Jarvis Lecture

A renowned speaker and writer on contemporary religion, Dr. Huston Smith, will visit East Carolina University Oct. 30 to give a public lecture on "Why Religion Matters: The Future of...

Oct 13, 2000
  • ECU News Services

ECU sends relics to area schools

Talk about being old! When East Carolina University's geology department surveyed its closets recently, the items gathering dust in dark spaces were vast collections of materials buried away for millions...