ECU News Services Archives

Aug 14, 2005
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Four from ECU to participate in leadership program for women

Four academic leaders at East Carolina University will participate in a statewide program for women in higher education beginning next month. The participants were selected for BRIDGES XIII, an intensive...

Aug 13, 2005
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ECU biologist surveys water discharge in Albemarle Sound

An East Carolina University biologist is giving a water treatment plant in the Albemarle Sound its first-ever bill of health. Roger Rulifson, an ECU biologist and director of the Field...

Aug 13, 2005
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ECU biologists cook, eat insects at BugFest

Hal Daniel, an East Carolina University biologist and anthropologist, believes insects could someday become a common, viable food source. “They are a very valuable resources,” he said. “There is a...

Aug 05, 2005
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ECU, City of Greenville to host minority planning conference

Encouraging minority and ethnic groups to become active in planning is central to creating strong, diverse communities, according to an East Carolina University professor of planning. Mulatu Wubneh, chair of...

Jul 20, 2005
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Durham assumes expanded role at ECU

East Carolina University’s spokesman John Durham will assume an expanded role as interim executive director of university relations and chief public affairs officer for the university, Chancellor Steve Ballard announced...

Jul 20, 2005
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Showfety named chair of ECU Board of Trustees

Stephen D. Showfety, president of the Koury Corp. in Greensboro, was elected chair of the East Carolina University Board of Trustees today. Showfety, an ECU alumnus and a member of...

Jul 09, 2005
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Smithsonian digs ECU anthropologist’s find

ECU anthropologist Charles Ewen and his students have been working with the Smithsonian this summer to identify the remains contained in two Civil War-era cast iron caskets unearthed in Kinston,...

Jul 07, 2005
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Romer to chair foreign languages and literatures

Frank Romer, a professor of classics at the University of Arizona, has been named chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at East Carolina University, effective Aug. 1....

Jul 07, 2005
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Grant to support medical education and resource clinic

The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University has received a two-year, $194,665 grant from the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust to support a clinic that will provide care...

Jul 06, 2005
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ECU physiology lab host local high school teacher

Fanette H. Entzminger, a biology teacher at Farmville Central High School, is spending seven weeks this summer studying in the physiology laboratory of Dr. Christopher J. Wingard at the Brody...