ECU welcomes students to campus
GREENVILLE, NC — East Carolina University welcomed back students and faculty this week as the university prepares for the first day of classes Aug. 23. Approximately 23,500 students are...
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NCLR 2006 features children’s literature
GREENVILLE, NC — Children's literature is the focus of the 2006 North Carolina Literary Review. The literary journal, housed in East Carolina University's English department, just published its 15th...
Boyer names director of ECU library services
GREENVILLE, NC — East Carolina University has named Larry Boyer as director of Academic Library Services. Boyer, who comes from Appalachian State University, will begin his post Oct. 2....
Grant bolsters scholarship for ECU librarian program
GREENVILLE, NC — East Carolina University' Department of Library Science and Instructional Technology received a $737,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to increase the number...
ECU physicist measures acoustics of famous violins
GREENVILLE, NC — For almost two centuries scientists have searched for the essential measurable properties that separate good violins from bad violins. In the past 30 years, East Carolina...
ECU awards $610,000 for faculty research
GREENVILLE, NC — East Carolina University’s Division of Research and Graduate Studies awarded nearly $610,000 in research development grants to 22 ECU professors this month. The aim of the...
Keith LeClair, Former ECU Baseball Coach, Dies After Extended Illness
Keith LeClair, East Carolina University's head baseball coach from 1997 to 2002, died at his home Monday following an extended illness. LeClair, 40, had been battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly...
Rigsby receives Fulbright Scholar Award
GREENVILLE, NC — ECU Geology professor Catherine A. Rigsby has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to lecture and conduct research at Universidade Federal do Pará in Belém,Brazil, during...
ECU researchers study effects of “Daily Show”
GREENVILLE, NC — College students who watch the satirical TV program, “The Daily Show,” are more skeptical and knowledgeable about politics and media, according to two East Carolina University...
ECU students rediscovers rare millipede
GREENVILLE, NC — For nearly 80 years, the world’s leggiest millipede has remained elusive, hidden in the secluded forests of San Benito County in California. But Paul Marek, an...