Jeannine Manning Hutson Archives

Feb 06, 2012
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PIRATE READ

East Carolina University has picked the highly acclaimed “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot as its Pirate Summer Read for 2012.  The work tells the story of...

ECU alumna Kymia Nawabi was the winner of Bravo TV's
Dec 22, 2011
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ECU grad wins Bravo TV’s “Work of Art: The Next Great Artist”

An East Carolina University graduate won the second season of Bravo TV's "Work of Art: The Next Great Artist" in an episode airing Dec. 21. The creative competition show pitted...

Dec 16, 2011
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ECU COMMENCEMENT

Ashley Tyson’s decorated mortarboard summed up her years at ECU this way: “I can do trauma and drama.” Tyson of Washington, N.C., was one of many boisterous College of Nursing...

ECU associate vice chancellor for health Sciences Dr. Thomas G. Irons was honored with an Award for Excellence in Public Service from the UNC Board of Governors in October. Irons will deliver the commencement address for the university's annual fall commencement. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Dec 06, 2011
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COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS

A university physician-educator who has dedicated his professional career to providing care to underserved children and adults in eastern North Carolina will deliver the commencement address at East Carolina University...

Dec 02, 2011
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AT THE TIPPING POINT

After more than 45 minutes of debate, the East Carolina University Board of Trustees, on a 7-5 split vote, proposed a tuition and fee increase for all students for the...

Balinda Ferree recognizes her father's handwriting on historic teletype she and husband John donated to Joyner Library. The original teletype outlines the events surrounding the Kennedy assassination on Nov. 22, 1963. More photos from the event are posted below. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Nov 23, 2011
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JFK teletype pages donated to ECU

On Nov. 22, 1963, Balinda Ferree was 19 years old and working in her father’s radio station in High Point, WHPE. That same day, President John F. Kennedy and his...

Award-winning novelist Colum McCann speaks to students during an early November visit to East Carolina University. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Nov 15, 2011
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Be Reckless

Novelist Colum McCann came to the United States 25 years ago on an adventure from Ireland, and he’s still here. The 2009 National Book Award winner urged East Carolina University...

A street scence from Port-au-Prince, Haiti shows ongoing damage from the earthquake. (Contributed photo)
Nov 10, 2011
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ECU conservator volunteers in Haiti

Usually when Susanne Grieve works to conserve an object, it’s been at the bottom of the ocean or sound for a couple of hundred years. But for two and one-half...

At left, Shanna Daniels, QAR project conservator steadies the cannon while Lawrence Babits, center, director of the ECU maritime studies program, and Charles Bowdoin, an ECU student at right, work to position the cannon on a block in the holding tank at ECU's QAR Conservation Lab. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Oct 28, 2011
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QAR lab preserves Blackbeard’s treasures

A few hours after underwater archaeologists plucked one of four large anchors from the wreck of Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge in the waters near Beaufort Inlet in May, a tourist...

Oct 27, 2011
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Colum McCann, author of “Let the Great World Spin,” coming to ECU

The winner of the 2009 National Book Award for fiction will visit East Carolina University in early November for events with students and a public reading of his work. Colum...