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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.