ECU News Services Archives

Jun 18, 2005
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ECU announces football schedule through 2013

Beginning in 2006, East Carolina University will initiate an unprecedented eight-year, 25-game non-conference football scheduling agreement with a number of Bowl Championship Series' opponents according to an announcement from athletics...

Jun 17, 2005
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ECU historian examines child apprenticeship laws

Apprentice labor laws in North Carolina existed as a means to control the composition and character of families, to provide sources of cheap labor and to ensure a white patriarchal...

Jun 17, 2005
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Parents donate 10,000 towards campus safety

An East Carolina University parents group has donated $10,000 toward the new campus safety department. The grant from ECU’s Parents Council will support safety workshops, forums and other events sponsored...

Jun 16, 2005
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ECU divers research sunken union gunboat in blackout conditions

With visibility of three to four inches on good day and near-darkness when clouds block the sun, maritime studies students at East Carolina University recently practiced one of the strengths...

Jun 16, 2005
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ECU joins regional ecosystems pact

East Carolina University has joined a regional consortium designed to foster ties between universities and federal resource management programs. ECU’s inclusion into the Piedmont-South Atlantic Coast Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit...

Jun 14, 2005
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White named dean of Arts and Sciences

Alan White, dean of the College of Science and Mathematics at North Dakota State University, has been named dean of the Harriot College of Arts and Sciences at East Carolina...

Jun 14, 2005
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Nine ECU medical students chosen as N.C. Schweitzer fellows

Nine students of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University have been chosen as North Carolina Schweitzer Fellows for 2005-06. In total, 22 North Carolina students in schools...

May 28, 2005
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ECU Offers Security Studies program

A new security studies program at East Carolina University has already drawn interest from dozens of students. Combining elements from the departments of political science, environmental health, planning, public administration...

May 27, 2005
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New technology helps patients with esophageal cancer

The photodynamic therapy team at the Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center added to its list of accomplishments recently by treating a patient with esophageal cancer. A 76-year-old woman became the...

May 24, 2005
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ECU FACULTY AWARDED SEED GRANTS TO FURTHER RESEARCH

East Carolina University’s Division of Research and Graduate Studies awarded $550,000 in grants to 23 professors last month under the new Research Development Grant Program. The grants will enable ECU...