ECU News Services Archives

Apr 21, 2008
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Up with People CEO to speak at ECU commencement

Thomas J. Spaulding, Jr., head of the non-profit organization Up With People, and an East Carolina alum, will deliver the keynote address at ECU’s spring commencement May 10. The ECU...

Apr 21, 2008
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Conde joins ECU focusing on special initiatives

David Conde has joined East Carolina University as senior associate vice chancellor for special initiatives in the Office of the Provost. Before coming to ECU, Conde was associate vice president...

Apr 16, 2008
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Senator Obama to visit campus

Sen. Barack Obama of Illinoiswill hold a rally Thursday evening at Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum to promote his bid to become the Democratic Party’s 2008 presidential nominee. Doors will...

Apr 10, 2008
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ECU Alum creates scholarships for College of Business students

A gift from ECU alumnus David Bond will enable the College of Business to establish more than 20 new scholarships. The David Bond Access Scholarships will be awarded annually to...

Apr 04, 2008
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ECU student’s research receives award

Dan Kane, a student in East Carolina University’s bioenergetics PhD program, has received recognition from the American Physiological Society’s Environmental and Exercise Physiology Section for his research that will help...

Apr 02, 2008
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Second Century Campaign kicks off at ECU, receives first leadership gift

East Carolina University publicly kicked off its Second Century Campaign, the university’s first capital campaign in 15 years, on March 27, the day the university marked Founder’s Day. At the...

Mar 31, 2008
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ECU welcomes new police chief

Scott Shelton remembers community policing long before anyone thought to call it that. It’s an approach to campus law enforcement that has brought him 31 years of success at the...

Mar 28, 2008
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ECU celebrates centennial

The East Carolina spirit arrived at Wright Auditorium March 27 in song, speech and award. In honor of the campus’s centennial celebration, more than 100 faculty, staff, and students were...

Mar 25, 2008
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Research and Creative Activity recipients announced

East Carolina University has named two recipients of the 2008 Research and Creative Activity Awards. Margaret Bauer, the Rives Chair of Southern Literature in ECU’s English Department, and Ron Cortright,...

Mar 20, 2008
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ECU holds Youth Arts Festival

East Carolina University will host the fourth annual Youth Arts Festival Saturday, April 5. The festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the "mall" area in...