ECU opens science lab for new biotech course
A new science laboratory being assembled in the biology department at East Carolina University will help students get better training in the rapidly growing field of biotechnology. Dr. Charles Bland,...
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ECU to recognize area educators
East Carolina University’s School of Education will recognize the work of eight North Carolinians at its annual awards ceremony in Wright Auditorium on Tuesday (Feb. 6) at 7:30 p.m. Those...
ECU physicians to share civil rights stories
Don Ensley (Allied Health Sciences) and David Dennard (History) will direct a project to recount the true stories and experiences of black physicians in eastern North Carolina. The project, scheduled...
ECU’s Ledonia Wright Cultural Center sets milestone
East Carolina University recently dedicated the new location of its Ledonia Wright African-American Cultural Center. Now housed in the historically-important Bloxton House, in the heart of the main campus, the...
ECU prof assists team on Biblical trail
He’s no archaeologist, but on a research trip to the Middle East and to sites where the Bible’s people lived thousands of years ago, East Carolina University professor Dick Stephenson...
ECU faculty senate discusses tuition, salaries
A resolution that passed the ECU Faculty Senate last week follows the wake of a debate at UNC-Chapel Hill over tuition hikes and pay raises for professors. “This could sound...
ECU poli scientists collect documents on new democracies
A group of political scientists from East Carolina University and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro have a plan they hope will attract a ton of governmental paperwork. In...
The College Classroom according to Margaret Capen
Few would argue with Margaret Capen’s candor about her field of expertise. “Statistics,” she said, “can be very dry.” But Dr. Capen’s School of Business classes on statistical analysis and...
Teaching on the web
As seen by East Carolina University professor Elmer Poe, the classroom is about two inches square. Seated in front of a computer and wearing a headset and a tiny microphone...
ECU sculptor takes students to Estonia
Radiators heat most of the buildings in Estonia, a Baltic nation once locked tightly behind the old “iron curtain” of Soviet authority. But the emergence of western technology and the...