ECU News Services Archives

Jan 17, 2012
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Polar Bear Plunge

NICE NIGHT FOR A SWIM:  Nearly 950 ECU students participated in the 16th annual Polar Bear Plunge Jan. 19 at the ECU Student Recreation Center. The jumpers gathered their courage...

Jan 11, 2012
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MILESTONES RECOGNIZED

The College of Business welcomed business students on Jan. 10 with its inaugural Declaration Day, at which time eligible undergraduate students officially declare their specific concentration within the College of...

Jan 03, 2012
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Cunningham named to state health plan board of trustees

Dr. Paul Cunningham, dean of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, has been named to the board of trustees of the State Health Plan for Teachers and...

Dec 22, 2011
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GIFT OF LIFE

Doctors announced today what is believed to be the first successful six-person kidney exchange in the Carolinas. Doctors from the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University and Eastern...

ENCSD student Judith Urias likes her new dancing shoes as ECU employee Johnny Stanley watches. Photo by Gray Whitley, Wilson Daily Times
Dec 17, 2011
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Brody helps make holiday special for deaf students

The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University and its telemedicine staff brought Christmas to students at the Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf in Wilson, presenting each...

Dec 12, 2011
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ECU offers summer medical education program

College students and recent graduates who are aiming for a career as a physician can hone their science and research skills during an eight-week summer program at the Brody School...

Dec 09, 2011
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FROM A DISTANCE

East Carolina University will share in more than $1.5 million North Carolina is receiving from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to improve access to health care and educational services in...

Dr. Hope Landrine, first director of the ECU Center for Health Disparities Research, will work collaboratively with ECU faculty and staff to examine and work toward reducing health disparities (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Dec 01, 2011
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ERASING INEQUITIES

Growing up just outside the Bronx, Dr. Hope Landrine witnessed the damage that chronic diseases wreaked upon her community. “Everyone was sick,” she recalled. Landrine knew she wanted to do...

Nov 03, 2011
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Four-star general, campus ceremony to commemorate Veterans Day at ECU

Gary L. North ECU alumnus Gen. Gary L. North is commander of Pacific Air Forces, responsible for Air Force activities spread over half the globe. His command supports 45,000 USAF...

A 1911 image from a Wright brothers' flight at Kill Devil Hills shows a crowd of observers and reporters viewing the event. (Photo courtesy of ECU Joyner Library Digital Images Collection)
Oct 21, 2011
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Soaring Flight: ECU students study Wright Brothers’ flights in 1911

East Carolina University students have focused on Wright Brothers’ discovery of “Soaring Flight” in an exhibit that documents their last expedition to Kitty Hawk in 1911. In the years following...