ECU News Services Archives

Feb 07, 2006
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Ewen edits book, pens chapter on the archaeology of piracy

GREENVILLE, NC —   When underwater archeologists search for pirate ships, buried treasure and silk-eye patches don’t often make their artifact list. That’s because, despite what film or literature might...

Jan 19, 2006
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NSF grants enable ECU to study Katrina’s economic impact

GREENVILLE, NC —   The Center for Natural Hazards Research at East Carolina University received more than $200,000 in grants from the National Science Foundation this month to study the...

Jan 09, 2006
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Finnish University Leaders visit ECU

GREENVILLE, NC—   A delegation from a Finnish university will visit East Carolina University Friday (Jan. 13). The president and administrators of the University of Oulu will meet with ECU...

Jan 04, 2006
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UNC Semester in Washington welcomed four ECU students

GREENVILLE, NC   —   Students from East Carolina University spent the summer interning at ABC News, the National Institutes of Health and the Federal Reserve Bank as part of...

Jan 04, 2006
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ECU to mark MLK day with Tutu lecture, volunteerism

GREENVILLE, NC - The daughter of famed South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu will visit Greenville in observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. Naomi Tutu will speak at 7 p.m.,...

Dec 20, 2005
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Wetherington named university attorney

Kitty H. Wetherington, who has served as interim university attorney at East Carolina University since March, has been named university attorney, effective immediately. Chancellor Steve Ballard said, “Kitty Wetherington has...

Dec 19, 2005
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NYC’S 92ND St. art center honors ECU’s Ebendorf

East Carolina University artist Robert Ebendorf was recently honored for leadership and achievement in American art by New York City's prestigious 92nd Street Y Art Center. Ebendorf was one of...

Dec 09, 2005
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EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY GRADUATES 2,200 STUDENTS

About 2,200 candidates graduated Saturday from East Carolina University. Phil Dixon, former chair of the East Carolina University Board of Trustees and a noted Greenville attorney and civic leader, was...

Dec 07, 2005
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Fort Bragg education center offers classes on base, during deployment

The next time Alberto Morrison deploys for Iraq, his business courses from East Carolina University will go with him. Based in Fort Bragg, Morrison is working toward a bachelor’s degree...

Dec 05, 2005
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Professor develops virtual reality-based course

When Professor Moha Tabrizi tried on his new sensory suit in East Carolina University’s Technology Innovation Lab, he wasn’t looking to create a movie or video game for Nintendo or...