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May 15, 1999
  • ECU News Services

Building named for state senator

The East Carolina University Board of Trustees voted on May 14 to name the new life sciences building at the School of Medicine for NC State Senator Ed Warren of...

May 05, 1999
  • ECU News Services

Faculty members honored for teaching

Nine East Carolina University faculty members were recognized for their outstanding teaching at a recent campus ceremony. Three faculty members received ECU Alumni Teaching Excellence Awards and six were named...

Apr 22, 1999
  • ECU News Services

ECU names new history chairman

Michael A. Palmer, an East Carolina University history professor, has been named chairman of the ECU Department of History, effective Aug. 1. Dr. Palmer specializes in military and diplomatic history...

Mar 25, 1999
  • ECU News Services

ECU joins UCAID to develop Internet2

East Carolina University has joined an organization of universities and corporations seeking to reinvent the Internet to benefit science and research. The campus was notified this week of its approval...

Mar 20, 1999
  • ECU News Services

ECU establishes Y2K response team

A new Y2K Response Team has been established at East Carolina University to identify and prepare for potential campus problems associated with the turn of the millennium. The team, headed...

Feb 27, 1999
  • ECU News Services

ECU to celebrate founders day, March 8

East Carolina University will mark its 92nd anniversary when it celebrates Founders Day on Monday, March 8. The formal Founders Day program begins at 11 a.m. in the theater at...

Feb 26, 1999
  • ECU News Services

ECU Professor writes book about civil war general

When it came to the business of war, Bryan Grimes, a Confederate major general from North Carolina in the War Between the States, was as lucky as he was capable....

Jan 28, 1999
  • ECU News Services

Enrollment Goal Set at 27,000

Chancellor Richard Eakin told the ECU Board of Trustees on Jan. 27 that the university's enrollment could grow to 27,000 in the coming decade. "It is quite conceivable that we...

Jan 28, 1999
  • ECU News Services

Coastal cultures featured in ECU professor’s book

GREENVILLE, NC  —   "The Estuary's Gift: An Atlantic Coast Cultural Biography," is the title of a new book by Dr. David Griffith, an ECU scientist and anthropology professor. Published...

Jan 26, 1999
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University enrollment could grow to 27,000 in the coming decade

GREENVILLE, N.C.  —   Chancellor Richard Eakin told the ECU Board of Trustees on Jan. 27 that the university's enrollment could grow to 27,000 in the coming decade. "It is...