After Richard's Folsom's son died in 2002, he picked up a novel he'd started in the 1970s and finished it. The book, Indian Wood: A Mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island, takes place in Greenville-with most of the action happening right here on ECU's campus.
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Ed Salau, an 11-year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and Veteran of the Army National Guard who lost his leg in combat to a rocket-propelled grenade, spoke to students and faculty in the Carol Belk Building on Friday, Nov. 21 in contribution to this year's 12th Annual Adapted Sports Day, which honors both the Wounded Warrior program and the 2008 Olympics/Paralympics.
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President-elect Barack Obama signaled a clear desire Wednesday to use a significant portion of $700 billion in financial bailout funds to stanch foreclosures by helping struggling homeowners with their mortgages.
"The deteriorating assets in the financial markets are rooted in the deterioration of people being able to pay their mortgages and stay in their homes," he said.
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The Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Program in Classical Studies at ECU has a new director. On Nov. 18, Dean Alan R. White appointed Dr. John Given as director of the program, replacing Professor John Stevens, who served as director for the previous five years.
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State officials have approved a plan by ECU to buy and install a CT scanner that will allow for precise diagnosis of coronary artery disease.
The advanced computed tomography scanner will be housed at the East Carolina Heart Institute at ECU. The state Division of Facility Services approved ECU's certificate of need application in late November.
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Imperiled automakers and their union worked feverishly Wednesday to sell a skeptical Congress on a $34 billion aid plan, promising labor concessions and restructuring. The Senate's Democratic leader said there still weren't enough votes to tap the $700 billion federal bailout fund to prop up the foundering Big Three.
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Football immortality could be just around for the corner for ECU.
The Pirates travel to Tulsa, Okla. this week for a noon showdown to play for the Conference USA title. A win would give ECU its first league title of any kind since capturing the Southern Conference title in 1976.
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As exciting and memorable as ECU's upset-laden beginning to the 2008 regular season was, the finish deserves the most applause. Pulling off a couple of upsets and even going undefeated during one season can give a program short-term credibility, but that's not what ECU coach Skip Holtz wants.
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There is no mistaking the names of two of the greatest venues in collegiate athletics at Duke and UNC. The Dean E. Smith Center-or the "Dean Dome," as it is better known-and Cameron Indoor Stadium are synonymous with college basketball.
On ECU's campus, Minges Coliseum is known for being the place where you took the swim test freshman year.
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The university seems to have a number of things that need to be taken care of or adjusted in terms of funding. Recently I discovered that Skip Holtz's salary is $565,000 for this year's season, and ECU has locked him into a six-year contract that is expected to total a whopping $9.
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