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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...

Oct 20, 2011
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Health communication leader to speak at ECU

Dr. Gary Kreps, an innovator in health communication and visiting scholar at the East Carolina University School of Communication, will speak about the importance of scholarship in the growing field...

At the Middle School Innovators Academy graduation ceremony at ECU June 23, creative young thinkers showed their new product concepts. The Pitt County middle schoolers developed the concepts during a two-week program using facilities at ECU's Innovation Design Lab. The academy won first place in a national competition in talent development.
Oct 20, 2011
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ECU Middle School Innovators Academy wins first place in national competition

An East Carolina University program that teaches innovation and creative thinking to Pitt County middle schoolers has taken top honors in a nationwide competition in Indianapolis. The ECU Middle School...

Oct 20, 2011
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Health communication leader to speak at ECU

Dr. Gary Kreps, an innovator in health communication and visiting scholar at the East Carolina University School of Communication, will speak about the importance of scholarship in the growing field...

Oct 19, 2011
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ECU supports National Guard project with Moldova

North Carolinians are known for their friendly personalities, generous nature and their willingness to help their fellow man if they are needed. In keeping with that tradition, a retired East...