ecu board of trustees endorses dental school health

East Carolina University celebrates its 99th birthday this year with the theme “A Legacy of Leadership.”

The official Founders Day is March 8. On this day the university com-

munity honors Gov. Thomas Jordan Jar-vis, who is known as the father of ECU. Because of his commitment to higher education, the General Assem-

bly on March 8, 1907 chartered East Carolina Teachers Training School, which would eventually become East Carolina c o n t i n u e d o n p a g e 9

By Nancy McGillicuddy

East Carolina University

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ExtravaganzaEC Scholars Host Kids, p. 8

RememberedMemorial Service for Coretta Scott King, p. 4

Hammering for HabitatRedding Volunteers, p. 6

ECU Board of Trustees Endorses Dental School

A masterʼs degree in health com-munication will be offered this fall by East Carolina Universityʼs School of Communication.

“For the past two years, ECU has been recruiting experts to teach in health communication and fine-tuning this degree plan,” said Tim Hudson, the schoolʼs director. “So, right from the start, ours will be a very high-quality graduate program.”

Applications are being accepted for the Fall 2006 school year. The curricu-lum will provide students with an in-depth understanding of theory and applica-tion of health and medical issues as they relate to interpersonal, media, organiza-tional and intercultural communication. Doctor-patient communication and how health care is portrayed in the media are two possible areas of exploration in the degree program.

Professors include Dr. Linda Kean, Dr. Chuck Grant and Dr. Linda Vangelis, newly hired to teach in the program.

Hudson said graduates of the pro-gram could be hired as hospital public

information officers; media relations rep-resentatives for non-profit organizations; or consultants for doctor-patient com-munication. The degree program is also designed to offer excellent preparation for doctoral study.

Program participants would hold a bachelorʼs degree in communication, or already hold a job as a health care pro-fessional. For example, a nurse could register for the program in order to move into an administrative position.

The program took four years to develop and is representative of the type of expansion underway in the school, Hudson said.

“Soon we will offer additional M.A. emphases for a broader range of gradu-ate study in journalism, media studies, organizational and interpersonal com-munication,” he said.“We anticipate strong international and intercultural components within these graduate opportunities.”

Application instructions and mate-rials are available at http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cfac/comm/ma/index.cfm.

Health Communication Masterʼs Offered in Fall

ECU Celebrates 99 Years

East Carolina, responding to a mounting oral health crisis throughout North Carolina, especially in rural areas, is proposing the creation of a school of dentistry at the university.

The ECU Board of Trustees at its Feb. 24 meeting approved the den-tal school proposal and called on the University of North Carolina Board of Governors to endorse it. If approved by the BOG, the initiative would go to the General Assembly.

Robbie Hill, chair of the Health Sciences Committee of the Board of Trustees, said, “We have an opportunity to create a real legacy with this school.”

Chancellor Steve Ballard, urging approval of the school, said, “We bring this proposal to you because North Carolina faces a crisis in rural oral health care and no institution, no university, is more capable of addressing this problem than ECU. We have the responsibility to move forward, to make a difference.”

Ballard said North Carolina ranks 47th out of 50 states in the ratio of den-tists to population. In rural areas, he said, the problem is worse.

“Four counties in eastern North Carolina have no dentists at all and three counties have only one dentist. In many counties, especially in the eastern part of the state, residents have to drive at least two hours to find an emergency care facility that would be able to treat the dental care needs of a child,” Ballard said.

The chancellor argued that ECU knows how to improve health care in eastern North Carolina.

“The model that we have built at the Brody School of Medicine succeeds remarkably well in preparing doctors who deliver primary care and who deliver it in the rural, economically disadvantaged areas of the state.” he said.

“We will bring to the new den-tal school the lessons we have learned in our medical school. We will recruit and train dentists whose interest in and loy-alty to the people of North Carolina is demonstrable and who will practice in the underserved areas.

“Make no mistake about this, East Carolina knows how to address this need.”

University. A memorial service will take place in honor of Gov. Jarvis at 10 a.m. at the Cherry Hill Cemetery in Greenville.

Founders Week runs March 27 to April 1 and includes events for both the university and Greenville community. A complete list of events is available by vis-iting http://www.ecu.edu/foundersday/.

Highlights include:• Monday, March 27: Commu-

nity Leaders Breakfast, 7:30 a.m., Jarvis Memorial United Methodist Church; The Chancellorʼs Community Advisory Coun-cil Issues Forum will hold a forum at 7 p.m. at the Eppes Recreation Center

• Tuesday, March 28: Victory Bell

Flags announcing ECUʼs 99th year adorn Reade Circle, next to the newly constructed West End Dining Hall. Each year as ECU Founders Day approaches, the City of Greenville installs the flags along downtown streets in the perimeter of the ECU campus. (Photo by Joy Holster)

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ECU employees successfully completed staff development and training programs offered by the Department of Human Resources during the fall semester.

Twelve participants in the ECU Employee Wellness Institute graduated with new knowledge of wellness, fitness, stress management, nutrition, goal accomplishment and work satisfaction. Offered since Spring 2003, the program provides such benefits as improved health, reduced stress and anxiety, reduced medical costs and improved inter-personal relationships.

An additional 25 employ-ees graduated from the ECU Supervision Institute, a training program designed to help employ-ees develop or strengthen the skills required for effective supervision. Topics include conflict resolution, coaching skills, project manage-ment techniques, ECUʼs ropes

Employees Complete Staff Development Programscourse, ethics, employee morale and goal setting. Available since 1995, this program requires participants to develop and present a project that implements an action plan to improve conditions within their work environment.

Twenty-two graduates of the Administration Certification Program spent the semester study-ing policies and procedures affecting ECUʼs SPA employees. Topics included the performance evaluation system, employee leave, classification and compensation, salary administration, interviewing and hiring, and employee relations. Participants passed an open-book exam for certification. This program has been offered since 1998.

Graduates of these three programs are listed below. For additional information about skill development opportunities, visit http://www.hr.ecu.edu/training.html.

Wellness Institute

Bonnie Casey-Parking and Traffic Services

Mary Gardner-Library Services

Mallory Harbeson-Family Medicine-Residency

Carol Johnson-Technology and Computer Science

Linda Kindell-Surgery-Cardiac Research

Del Kingsland-Steam Plant-Main Campus

Lisa Robinson-Art Department

Denethia Smith-Patient Access Services

Jennifer Sugg-Billing and Reimbursement

Neal Thorne-Steam Plant-Main Campus

Judy Williams-Billing and Reimbursement

Toicha Williams-Anatomic Pathology Division

Supervision Institute

Horace J. Andres- Housekeeping Services-Main Campus

Douglas Barnum-Center for Health Sciences Communications

Charles Biggs-Mason Shop-Main Campus

Charles Brown-University Union

Levy Brown-University Union

Marianne Cox-University Union

Ellen Deters-Apparel Merchandising

Debbie Hartsell-Billing and Reimbursement

Scotty Henley-University Union

Michael Hosey-HVAC-Main Campus

Supervision Institute - Continued

Caroline Kinkton-Contact Center

Jona Maynard-IT Finance and Planning

Karen Mizelle-Parking and Traffic Services

Carole Novick-Development and Alumni Affairs

Ruth S. Parrish-ECU Physicians Group Practice

Robert A. Peed Jr.-Steam Plant-School of Medicine

Theresa Phillips-IM-Infectious Disease

Teresa C. Ramaglino-Materials Management

Maria del Carmen Rodriguez-Social Work Services

Jimmy Roster-University Publications

Joyce Gail Smith-Housekeeping Services-Main Campus

Margaret L. Streeter-Information Technology Security

Swindell Taft-University Union

Denise Wainright-Eastern AHEC Administration

Richard Yakubowski-Contact Center

Administrative Certification Program II

Vivian Bazemore-Internal Medicine Administration

Sue Chapman- ECU Police Department

Susan Copeland-ITCS Administration Services

Judy Currin-News and Communication Services

Edna Denton-Pathology

Brenda Woolard-Department of English

Amanda Fleming-Registrar

Jerome Fuller-Cardiac Surgery

Sheryl Gardner-Student Health Service

Heather Godley-IT Finance and Planning

Ginger Hardee-Operations Support

Crystal Hooper-Anatomy and Cell Biology

Bonnie Kautsky-Grants and Contracts

Donna Lewis-Mayo-Engineering and Architect Services

Marilyn Linton-ITCS Administration Services

Kathleen Oldham-Engineerʼs Office-Main Campus

Pamela Ore-ITCS Administration Services

Terry Pridgen-Patient Access Services

Petra Rouse-Operations Support

Andrea Strickland-Regional Development Institute

Kimberley Walters-ECU Police Department

Laura Edwards-Office of the Provost-Academic Affairs

March 10, 2006 Pieces of Eight


News in Brief

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Editor: Joy Manning Holster(5,000 copies of this issue were printed at an approximate pre-tax cost of $595 or 12 cents per copy.)

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The Carolyn Freeze Baynes Institute for Social Justice in the College of Human Ecology has announced the publication of its first peer-reviewed journal, Social Justice in Context 2005, edited by David Harrison (Social Work). Harrison also serves as coor-dinator of the Institute, an international forum for addressing ideas and innovations in pursuit of ethical social relations within and among societies. The journal is intended to stimulate thought, study and practice that advance the cause of social justice both locally and globally. The first issue contains work from nine contributing authors from around the world, including Margaret Arnd-Caddigan (Social Work). Authors approach social justice from varying contexts, such as mental health services, linguistics, class equity, and historical perspectives. ECU faculty, staff and students are encouraged to submit entries. Visit http://www.ecu.edu/che/cfbi/index.htm, or e-mail [email protected].

With an eye toward saving time and saving lives, East Carolina University physicians and others are participating in a statewide project aimed at streamlining the care heart attack patients receive.

With organization and support from Pitt County Memorial Hospital, cardiol-ogists and emergency physicians at the Brody School of Medicine, local private-practice cardiologists, and doctors and hospitals across eastern North Carolina are working together as part of a state-wide consortium of health care providers and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina. The consortium calls its proj-ect RACE, short for Reperfusion of Acute M.I. in Carolina Emergency departments.

“We know from multiple sources that patients in North Carolina are not getting potentially life saving therapy often enough or soon enough,” said Dr. Joseph Babb, a professor and cardiolo-gist at the Brody School of Medicine and director of the cardiac catheterization lab-oratories at PCMH. With the knowledge and practice gained in the RACE project, he added, patients benefit “by receiving appropriate therapy more rapidly and, if

hospital transfer is needed, realizing said transfer in a more expedited fashion.”

The issue is especially important in North Carolina, RACE team members said, since national registries have shown that only about 60 percent of North Caro-linians who come to an emergency room with symptoms of a myocardial infarc-tion, or heart attack, receive potentially life-saving reperfusion therapies to open their clogged arteries, compared to the national average of at least 70 percent. National benchmarks are for patients to receive drugs within a half-hour and angioplasty, if needed, within 90 minutes.

Angioplasty is the use of a balloon threaded through the arteries to the block-age and then inflated to reopen the artery, restore blood flow and spare damage to heart muscle due to a lack of oxygen.

If successful, RACE could serve as a national model for collaborative efforts to improve delivery of emergency care.

The RACE consortium comprises five regions centered in Greenville, Dur-ham/Chapel Hill/Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Charlotte and Asheville. Other partners in the project include the Duke

RACE Aims to Save LivesBy Doug Boyd

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ECU will help minority contractors learn vital skills by hosting a Historically Underutilized Businesses Contractors Business Academy. The HUB Academy begins March 14 and will run every Tuesday for 16 weeks. Each session will be held at the Greenville Center from 5:30 to 9 p.m. According to Donna Mayo, HUB coordinator at ECU, the academy will provide valuable information for minority contractors and their businesses. “The various classes will teach essential business skills for managing a com-petitive construction business. Experts in accounting, cash flow management, employee relations and laws, estimating and project scheduling will instruct the classes,” said Mayo. For information, contact Mayo at 252-328-6858 or [email protected].

ECU physician Joseph Babb leads a press conference announcing the new statewide program aimed at improving care for North Carolina's heart attack patients. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)

Dr. Peter Kragel, interim direc-tor of ECUʼs Center for Health Sciences Communication, has been appointed to a three-year term on the board of the directors of the Universal Services Administrative Co.

USAC administers the Universal Services Fund, the fund mandated by the Telecommunica-tions Act of 1996 to promote availability of services at afford-able rates, increase access to advanced telecommunications services nation-ally and advance availability of services

to consumers including those in low-income, rural and high-cost areas.

Telecommunications carriers put money into the fund, which in 2005 pro-vided an estimated $7.1 billion to support access and affordable rates to four targets: high-cost areas, schools and libraries, low-income consumers and rural health care providers.

A 19-member board manages the business affairs of USAC. Kragel has been appointed to the board by Kevin Martin, chairman of the Federal Com-munications Commission, as one of two representatives of rural health care orga-nizations eligible to receive discounts.

Kragel is also professor and chair-man of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Brody School of Medicine and associate vice chancellor for planning and program development for the ECU Health Sciences Division.

Kragel Named to BoardBy Doug Boyd

Kragel

ECU Institute Publishes Social Justice Journal

ECU Helps Minority Contractors Learn Vital Skills

The 12th annual Hamstring Hustle 5K Run/Walk will be held in downtown Greenville April 2 at 2 p.m. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Pediatric Healthy Weight Research and Treatment Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to support-ing people/children living with obesity, weight problems and poor nutrition. The race is presented by the Medical Student Council of ECUʼs Brody School of Medicine. Awards will be presented to overall male and female winners and to the top three males and females in each age group. For additional information, contact Bruce S. Henry Jr. at (336) 462-0952 or e-mail [email protected].

Hamstring Hustle to Benefit the Pediatric Weight Center

ECUʼs Japan Center East hosted “Experience Japan,” on March 1, including a slide presentation on Japan offered by ECU professors Dr. Beverly Harju and Dr. Linda Wolfe. Wolfe, department chair of anthropology, discussed Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan. She spent a year in Arashiyama studying the behavior of Japanese monkeys. Arashiyama is a tourist district along the outskirts of Kyoto and is known worldwide for attracting scholars studying primates. It is also home to the famous Zen temple, Tenryuji. Harju received a six-month visiting research professor award from Hiroshima University, and studied the country from July until December 2004.

Japan Center East Hosts ʻTrip to Japan ̓

Session Highlights Bioprocess Manufacturing Study

In February, ECU and the BioNetwork Bioprocessing Center held an informa-tion session covering the newly established bioprocess manufacturing concentration in ECUʼs industrial technology degree. Attending were more than 40 representatives from the community colleges across North Carolina, the central office of the system. ECUʼs Technology System already had two agreements with Pitt and Fayetteville Technical Community College but with the success of this session, numerous other agreements are in the works to be completed by end of the spring semester. This newly formed concen-tration gives biotechnology-related graduates from the N.C. Community College System an educational pathway to their four-year degree. ECU offers 37 technical credits and up to 26 more for general education requirements allowing community college graduates to transfer as juniors. This degree is offered face-to-face and online, giving working pro-fessionals the opportunity to advance their careers from anywhere in the state. There are currently more than 800 students in a bio-related degree program in the N.C. Community College System and over a dozen already planning to apply to this program in the fall.

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By Erica Plouffe Lazure

The ECU community gathered last month to mourn the loss of the first lady of the Civil Rights movement, Coretta Scott King. King, the widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died Jan. 30 at the age of 78.

Campus and civic leaders spoke of her lifelong commitment to the civil rights movement and her selfless effort to continue her husbandʼs mission by found-ing the King Center for Non-Violent Social Change.

“Coretta Scott King worked pas-sionately alongside her husband, who led a revolution,” Taffye Benson Clayton, of ECUʼs Office of Diversity and Equity, said. “Together they stood courageously leading a movement that made it possi-ble for us to sit together in this room in mutual respect and peace.”

Regina Twine, president of ECUʼs Black Student Union, said her genera-tion should continue, as Mrs. King had, to work for peace, justice and equality.

“Iʼm not too young to understand the mark Coretta Scott King made on the world,” Twine said. “They say behind every strong man is a strong women. Instead of giving up, Mrs. King embraced the dream and continued the fight.”

Marilyn Sheerer, interim vice-

chancellor for university advancement and dean of the College of Education at ECU, said Mrs. King exuded a quiet serenity. “Coretta Scott King has been a moral compass, helping us make our way through these challenges,” Sheerer said. “She not only maintained her husbandʼs

legacy; she expanded it and became a symbol in her own right.”

Congressman G.K. Butterfield, the keynote speaker, discussed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Act, and noted that Martin Luther King, Jr., had always sought refuge in his wife.

“If you talk about Martin Luther King Jr., you must also talk about his wife, Coretta Scott King,” he said.

Glen Gilbert, dean of the College of Health and Human Performance, said he marched for civil rights as a student in Oregon, but noted that the political climate of a college in the Northwest didnʼt take much courage to do so.

“Can you imagine the courage it took to march in Alabama?” he said. “Can you imagine the courage it took to watch your husband be the object of such hatred? Can you imagine?”

Gilbert said that leaders at ECU continue to the legacy of the Civil Rights movement, particularly through education.

“Coretta Scott King always spoke of a need for justice and opportunity and she knew the key to opportunity is education,” he said. “I know Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King are looking down to see what we do with this opportunity. It is up to the ECU community to make them proud.”

ECU Ceremony Honors Legacy of Coretta Scott King

Banner Success

Pictured are current fellows and former ECU ACE fellows. Front row, from left, Roseann Mandziuk, Texas State University-San Marcos; Priscilla Elsass, Clark University, Mass.; Deryl Fulmer, Milwaukee Area Technical College; Ron Nowaczyk, ECU former fellow and associate vice chancellor for research, development and community engagement; Dana Dawes, ARAMARK senior food service director. Second row, Susan Carvalho, University of Kentucky; Karla Hughes, dean of ECU's College of Human Ecology; Jenny Wagner, University of Massachusetts-Boston. Third row, from left, former ECU fellows Michael Brown, associate dean and director of school psychology program; Rosina Chia, assistant vice chancellor for Academic Outreach; and Richard Tichich, director of the School of Art and Design.

Five fellows from the American Council on Education visited East Carolina University campus on Jan. 30. Karla Hughes, dean of the College of Human Ecology, who is also a fellow this year, hosted the group.

Established in 1965, the ACE Fellows program is one the longest run-ning leadership development programs in the country and focuses on identifying and preparing senior leadership for the nationʼs colleges and universities.

An important part of the ACE pro-gram is the opportunity for fellows to visit a variety of large and small insti-tutions and learn about outstanding programs. Fellows meet with top cam-pus administrators to ask questions and benefit from the shared knowledge of uni-versity deans, chancellors and presidents.

Hughes led the fellows on a tour of campus facilities where they met admin-istrators representing arts and sciences, athletics, humanities and medicine. Stops included breakfast in the West End Dining Hall with former ECU ACE fellows, the Global Classroom, the Ward Sports Medicine Building, the Warren Life Science Building Cardiovascular Center and the Brody School of Medicine.

The fellows raised questions for Chancellor Steve Ballard and Provost Jim Smith at lunch about the chal-lenges of shepherding a large university. Other leaders who shared their exper-tise during the day were Jeffrey Elwell, dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communications; Ralph Rogers, dean of

University Hosts Group of ACE FellowsBy Peggy Novotny the College of Technology and Computer

Science; Elmer Poe, associate vice chan-cellor for Academic Outreach; Rosina Chia, assistant vice chancellor for Academic Outreach; Glen Gilbert, dean of the College of Health and Human Performance; Nick Floyd, assistant ath-letic director; Michael Lewis, vice chancellor for Health Sciences; Cynda

Johnson, dean of the School of Medicine; Phyllis Horns, dean of the School of Nursing; and Stephen Thomas, dean of the School of Allied Health Sciences.

The tour concluded with presenta-tions by faculty in the College of Human Ecology on the collegeʼs partnerships and projects associated with the revitalization of west Greenville.

Banner Project Director Don Sweet noted that the February “go live” implementation of Banner and PORT Finance was smooth and suc-cessful.

Sweet solicited feedback from administrators to help him gauge how well the transition was made. That feedback was positive. “I was excep-tionally pleased with how well the first day rolled out. No catastrophes, no meltdowns… a very good day,” one manager said. “All things went well…” said another.

The “go live” date for Banner Cashiering was Feb. 1, followed by Banner Finance and PORT on Feb. 9. The software will ensure that ECU is compliant with a new law enacted to protect against identity theft. The law restricts the use of social security numbers and other identifying infor-mation in software applications. With the new program, applications will rely on a new Banner ID number for faculty, staff and students.

Most users of the new soft-ware pointed to on-campus training as the key to their successful transi-tion. Nine trainers and 46 facilitators helped provide training for the Finance project. In addition, teams led by Nancy Phelps and Patricia Peebles ensured the success-ful implementation of the project. Technical issues were handled by Donnie Tenny, supported by staff in ITCS Database Administration, Production Control, and UNIX Systems Administrators. The ITCS New Technologies Development Group prepared for training and the ProCard implementation. A Banner Appreciation luncheon was held March 8 to recognize those who made the project a success.

ECU Compliance Officer Taffye Benson Clayton greets Congressman G.K. Butterfield during ECUʼs memorial service honoring Coretta Scott King. Butterfield was the keynote speaker for the event. (Photo by Marc J. Kawanishi)




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Three projects involving East Car-olina University have received a total of $555,000 in grants from the Golden LEAF Foundation.

The grants will help fund a math and sciences education project, a health workforce development project and an expansion of ECUʼs telemedicine net-work.

Following are brief summaries of the grants:

• Rural Eastern North Caro-lina Telehealth Network, $350,000. This grant will help add four telemedi-cine sites in the medically underserved rural communities of Faison in Duplin County, Belhaven in Beaufort County, Tillery in Halifax County and Hatteras in Dare County. The project will increase access to specialty care, improve conti-nuity of care and improve the retention and recruitment of health professionals in these communities by reducing pro-fessional isolation. The project will also study telemedicineʼs impact on health and the community. Dr. Peter Kragel, interim director of the ECU Center for Health Sciences Communication and professor and chairman of the ECU Department of Pathology; and Scott Simmons, assistant director of the ECU Telemedicine Center within CHSC, are leading the project.

• Rural Health Scholars Internship and Workforce Development, $175,000. This grant will help expand the Minority Rural Health Summer Scholars Internship into Bertie, Gates, Chowan, Perquimans, and Pasquotank counties. Each year, the program will target at least 20 minor-ity or disadvantaged students enrolled in health-occupation courses who want to complete a senior clinical practicum and obtain certification as a nursing assis-

tant. Students will be assigned a mentor and must complete an internship dur-ing the summer between their junior and senior year of high school. After com-pleting their senior year and passing the certified nursing assistant exam, partic-ipants will be offered employment by health care agencies in their communities after successful application and accep-tance into a health-career program at a community college, ECU or other insti-tution. Deborah Ramey, director of allied health, public health, dental health, health careers and workforce diversity for the Eastern Area Health Education Center, and Tashara James, assistant director, will lead the project.

• Summer Science Camp, $30,000. This project will provide a science camp experience at ECU for at least 100 chil-dren ranging from kindergartners to sixth graders from tobacco-dependent or eco-nomically distressed families in Pitt, Craven, Lenoir, Greene, Beaufort, Wil-son and Martin counties. Golden LEAF funds will be used for scholarships, counselors and transportation. Dr. John Meredith, clinical assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Brody School of Medicine; and Shawn Laatch, a visit-ing instructor in the Department of Math and Science Education, will lead the proj-ect. The Morehead Planetarium at UNC - Chapel Hill is a partner in the project.

The Foundation also awarded $350,000 for the James T. Bernstein Com-munity Health Center in north Greenville.

The Golden LEAF Foundation, a nonprofit corporation, receives funds from the settlement agreement with cigarette manufacturers. In turn, the foun-dation helps North Carolinians make the transition from a tobacco-dependent econ-omy through grants and investments that improve the state's economy.

Awards Total $555,000 From Golden LEAF

By Doug Boyd

Ronald J. Newton, chair of ECUʼs department of biology, discussed his labʼs research on genetically modified Christmas trees to area science teachers, Feb. 16 as part of a program called RX 2 for Science Literacy. The program was offered by ECUʼs Division of Research and Graduate Studies and the North Carolina Association for Biomedical Research. (Photos by Erica Plouffe Lazure)

Christmas Tree Research Shared

Dr. W. Randolph Chitwood Jr. was elected second vice president of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons by the groupʼs membership during their 42nd annual meeting Jan. 30 through Feb. 1 in Chicago.

His election means Chitwood will be in line to become president of the orga-nization in 2008. Chitwood is senior associ-ate vice chancellor for health sciences at East Carolina University and chief of car-diothoracic and vascular surgery in the Department of Surgery at the Brody School of Medicine at ECU. He is also

director of the East Carolina Heart Institute.

As second vice president dur-ing the coming year, Chitwood will sit on the board of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and its executive committee. He will also serve as the executive commit-tee liaison to the STS Council of Quality, Research and Patient Safety.

“Dr. Chitwood has served the soci-ety in a number of important capacities over the years, including prior service on our board of directors, and is highly respected by his peers,” said Robert A. Wynbrandt, STS executive director and general counsel.

“He will be an extremely valuable addition to the societyʼs senior leader-ship.”

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons is a non-profit organization representing more than 5,000 surgeons worldwide who provide heart, lung, esophageal and other surgical procedures of the chest. Its mis-sion is to help cardiothoracic surgeons serve patients better.

Elected to Leadership Post

Chitwood

When underwater archaeologists search for pirate ships, buried treasure and silk-eye patches donʼt often make their artifact list.

Thatʼs because, despite what film or literature might imply, pirate ships in their heyday and in their present under-water graves look like every other ship, according to East Carolina University anthropology professor Charles Ewen, co-editor of a new book on the archaeol-ogy of piracy.

“Youʼre not going to find barrels of hooks or eye patches,” he said. “Thatʼs where archaeology can help.”

Unlike other shipwrecks, scholarly archaeologists like Ewen, usually wonʼt go near pirate vessels. Working with pirate ships can be a coup de grace for many careers, because excavation often entails collaborating with the bane of the archaeologist: the treasure hunter.

And it also means working on a

Ewen Edits, Writes on Archaeology of Piracy

topic so romantically stretched, it has inspired cultural pop icon references ranging from “Peter Pan” and “The Pirates of the Caribbean” to the snarling mascot of East Carolina University. Ewen said these references to pirates simultane-ously soften the image of pirate-provoked terror and the scholarly nature of under-water archaeology.

“Having it be popular taints it a bit,” Ewen admitted in reference to the study of pirate shipwrecks. “But I like making this popular. The general public deserves to see this.”

In February, the public had that chance with a book Ewen co-edited with his best friend and colleague, Russell Skowronek. The book, “X Marks the Spot: The Archaeology of Piracy” (University Press of Florida, 2006) attempts to bridge academia with the pub-licʼs pirate curiosity. Ewen said the book is scholarly, but accessible.

“X Marks the Spot” describes all



In coordination with the Recognition and Rewards Committee of the ECU Staff Senate, the Pieces of Eight series honor-ing exceptional ECU staff members recognizes Bill Redding.

By Judy Currin

To talk drumsticks with George Bissinger requires a conversation about violins. And to talk

violins will undoubtedly lead to a discus-sion about acoustics and vibration.

In the world of this ECU physics professor, all of these topics are interre-lated and are at the heart of his research of the past 32 years.

“The drumstick research is very similar to what I do with the violins. A drumstick is like a one-dimensional violin, without the harmonics,” he said.

A trained violinist, Bissinger said he never really thought about drumsticks until 2004, when he got a call from the Texas-based Pro-Mark drumstick factory.

“They were interested in pitch-matching their drumsticks,” Bissinger said. “Itʼs easy to do by ear, but they needed an industrial approach, something that could be set up like an assembly line. You canʼt have someone sit there and lis-ten to each drumstick.”

Pro-Mark asked Bissinger to apply his work with violin acoustics to testing drumsticks. Bissingerʼs work with vio-lins is world-renown, and in 1999 he was awarded a National Science Foundation grant to further his work. The drumstick company mailed Bissinger a box of 100 hickory drumsticks and he set to the task of developing a device using real-time modal analysis that would catch the pitch frequency, or unique vibration, emitted from each drumstick.

“I had come to understand drum-sticks pretty well,” he said. “It turns out

the drumsticks tend to be about the same, as far as length and weight.”

After putting several drumsticks through a CAT scan, Bissinger found the density and grain of the wood drove the main difference in pitch. He then adapted a device that gauges the pitch of violins to one suitable for a drumstick. Secured only by a pair of rubber bands, and surrounded by tiny microphones, the drumsticks are struck on the tip with a small hammer. The vibrations of the drumstick are then captured by a com-puter and organized according to their frequency.

“The company needed to know what the range of frequency is,” he said. “The sticks are then put into bins, the low frequency on the left, the high on the right.”

The sorted drumsticks are paired off and sold to the public as “pitch-tested.” It is important to professional drummers, Bissinger said, that the drumsticks are matched, so the sound made when struck is the same. Even holding a drumstick changes its properties, but the pressure applied by each hand is usually similar.

While drummers typically need two sticks that emit similar frequencies when struck, the needs of a violinist are far more complex, Bissinger said.

“The frequency of a violin is key because it enables a hearer to determine its quality of tone,” he said. “I can tell a maker that if they trim a bridge, it will affect the tone. We found that shaving four-hundredths of a gram of wood turned a violin from a very good instrument into a student instrument.”

Bissinger noted that, with violins, what determines a “good” tone is highly subjective. Soloists are looking for dif-ferent sounding violins than ensemble violinists.

“It is a complex instrument and it doesnʼt radiate in ways people tradition-ally look at an instrument,” he said. The sound a violin makes when its bridge is struck affects internal and external sounds and it is the combination of these sounds resonating that produces the dif-ference in tone, he said.

“Itʼs part of why the violin sound is so complex,” he said.

Bissinger said the acoustical

research could have many implications beyond the demands for fine instruments. He noted that the air and submarine industries are interested in the effect of vibration and he believes the violin could provide a viable “vessel” for applying a theoretical model.

As a musician, however, Bissinger noted that it would be great to produce a chart or matrix that could gauge acousti-cal elements of fine instruments.

“It may be a nice to develop an acoustic envelope in which all good instruments occur,” he said. “If there are enough modest changes, you could get rid of all the bad violins.”

Research Bridges Acoustics, Drumsticks and ViolinsBy Erica Plouffe Lazure

Redding at Home with Hammer, Guitar, Stethoscope

ECU physics professor George Bissinger is known worldwide for his research in violin acoustics and pitch-matching drumsticks. (Photo by Marc J. Kawanishi)

Family Nurse Practitioner Bill Redding hammers away on a Greenville home under construction by Habitat for Humanity. (Photo by Marc J. Kawanishi)

Bill Redding is as skillful examin-ing a builderʼs blueprint as he is a patientʼs medical chart.

A family nurse practitioner for 26 years, Redding spends his weekdays attending patients at the Brody School of Medicine. He sees patients of every age and walk of life.

“Itʼs nice,” Redding said. “I never know whatʼs coming through the door.”

On Saturday mornings he never knows what task awaits him either. Those days, he heads out to Pitt Countyʼs Habi-tat for Humanityʼs latest building project. He has been involved with the organiza-tion since 1990. Since then, the non-profit organization has built 42 homes to shelter low-income families in Pitt County.

Reddingʼs first contact with Habi-tat for Humanity was pure happenstance. “I was building stage sets for the N.C. Academy of Dance Arts,” he said. “My daughter was performing.”

The warehouse where he was work-ing was across from Pitt Street, the site of

Greenvilleʼs first Habitat House.“I saw the house being built, so I

walked over to talk with the group of vol-unteers,” he said. “Itʼs a good program I wanted to be involved with.” He served on Habitatʼs board for five years and is now a member of the building committee.

Redding said itʼs important for him to give back something to the community.

“Itʼs ideal if the service is in an area you have an interest.”

An accomplished carpenter, Red-ding honed his skills in his fatherʼs basement workshop. He was raised in Clarence, a small town in New York State just outside of Buffalo. Reddingʼs father and his nine siblings helped each other build homes on one-acre lots fronting the

family home place and adjoining farm.While Redding did not build the

house he shares with wife, Susan, he crafted tables, desks and cabinets for their home from his own garage workshop. He and Susan, a nurse practitioner at PCMH, have two daughters who would rather design than build. Genevieve is a fash-ion designer in New York and Caroline designs furniture in Raleigh.

Thereʼs another side of Bill that gets lots of exposure this time of year. Redding grew up listening and learning traditional Irish tunes from his father who played the banjo.

Now a veteran guitar player, Red-dingʼs hobby landed him two gigs, at the Hilton and Christieʼs Euro Pub on St. Patrickʼs Day.

He will perform with Mike Hamer (English) from 7 to 10 p.m. at Glennonʼs at the Hilton and 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. Chris-tieʼs Euro Pub on Jarvis Street. The duo will perform 40 to 50 traditional Celtic and Irish songs, including “Nancy Whis-key,” “Finneganʼs Wake” and “The Rising of the Moon.”

“Danny Boy,” the love song written by Frederick Weatherly, will be a part of the musical line-up as well.

“Weʼll do that too, just because itʼs so popular,” Redding said. “ʻDanny Boy ̓is the “Brown-eyed Girl” of Irish music, you got to do Danny Boy.”




Festus Eribo published his first news-paper, “The Torch,” when he was 17-years old and “The Sword,”

magazine at age 19 in high school in Benin City, Nigeria.

“We didnʼt have any publications for the students — nobody knew what was going on,” said Eribo, a professor of com-munications at East Carolina University. “So I gatecrashed into writing and editing. I still have a copy of my 1969 magazine here in Greenville.”

Over the years, Eriboʼs passion to write, research, teach, and communi-cate has brought him many honors, most recently ECUʼs 2005 Five-Year Creative Activity and Research Award.

“Festus has made immense contri-butions to the field of communication,” wrote colleague Bill Jong-Ebot with Florida Memorial College, in one of many nominations Eribo received for the award.

“His work has been original and enriching to communication practitioners and scholars worldwide. He has traveled extensively and has witnessed firsthand the media systems he has written about.”

Eribo, who studies issues of press freedom and the use of communication for sustainable development and social change in Africa, has taught at ECU since 1989 and is a founding member of the School of Communication. He serves on the editorial board of two journals and has published five books and more than 30 articles or book chapters in the past 16 years.

Eribo started his communications career after earning a bachelorʼs and mas-terʼs degree in journalism in 1979 from St. Petersburg State University in Russia. After working a five-year stint as the prin-cipal information officer at the Governorʼs Office in Bendel State, Nigeria, Eribo had a choice to make: stay in Nigeria or continue his education. His decision was based on corruption — avoiding it.

Eribo won a government scholar-


ship to study anywhere in the world and he chose the University of Wisconsin-Madison out of three American universities which offered him admission to graduate school. Now as a profes-sor in ECUʼs School of Communication, Eribo has made a career out of studying

Eribo Studies Media Focus on Corruption in Nigeria

Yu “Frank” Yang is not afraid of high pressure.

In fact, this professor of chemistry thrives on it.

He has built a career on it.And this year, as recipient of ECUʼs

2005 Five-Year Creative Activity and Research Award, he has been rewarded for it. He will speak at noon on April 6 at the Bate Building, Room 1500.

“One of the activities in this lab is using water as a solvent to clean hazard-ous chemicals and contaminants from environmental solids,” Yang said. “We are using high- pressure, high-tempera-ture water.”

Ever since he arrived at ECU, in 1997, Yang has been researching prac-tical applications of “subcritical” water. Yang found that water in a state of high

pressure and high temperature is able to isolate and separate PCBs and other toxic chemicals from soil samples. Yang, who has received more than $300,000 in grants and has published more than 40 research articles in the past 20 years, is optimis-tic that this method, known as “Green Chemistry,” could be a viable alternative to chemical solvents.

“By keeping high-temperature water in a liquid state, it behaves like organic solvents and is able to separate the con-taminants from the soil,” Yang said.

Traditionally, organic solvents are used to extract pollutants from soil and sediments. The problem with organic solvents is that they are expensive and also hazardous to the environment. Yang is optimistic subcritical water would provide a relatively inexpensive and non-toxic solution to clean up areas

press freedom, development, corrup-tion and communication. The classes he teaches at ECU include mass media eth-ics, international news communication and international pubic relations.

His publications range in topics from the use of the Internet in Nigeria to

freedom of the press in Africa.An oil-producing country in west-

ern Africa, Nigeriaʼs national newspapers often headline the latest government cor-ruptions. Eriboʼs latest research compares how the media in Nigeria report on gov-ernment corruption versus HIV and AIDS. Eribo said there is an indirect correlation between them. With HIV/AIDS infection rates in Nigeria about one percent of the population, according to the CIA World fact book, Eribo wants to see more report-ing on the true epidemic nature of the disease and the search for a cure.

“The main focus of the media is corruption. There is a lot written about corruption and very little written about AIDS,” Eribo said. “They should do a better job about bringing an awareness to AIDS.”

Eribo will interview Nigerian reporters and collect data based on the nationʼs newspaper articles. His semi-nal paper on corruption in Nigeria will be presented to the World Bank Congress on Development Communication in Rome this year. He will conduct a quantitative analysis comparing the number of stories that focus on corruption to the number of stories that focus on HIV/AIDS.

Eribo hopes the outcome of his latest research will not only shed light on corruption and the growing public health concern, but will also spark new trends in training and preparing journalists to report on emerging and relevant issues.

“I want them to do more investi-gative reporting,” he said. “Africa needs a free, dynamic, committed, and vibrant press to create awareness and diffuse innovations in every community.”

Eribo will discuss his research at noon on March 30 in Bate 1500. Fellow award-winners will also present: Frank Yang will speak at noon on April 6, and Lynis G. Dohm on April 20 (both in Bate 1500). Joseph Chalovich presented his research on March 9. Yangʼs research is described below. Future issues of Pieces of Eight will detail Chalovich and Dohmʼs research agendas.


Research Fueled by High Temps, High Pressure

Chemistry Professor Frank Yang has been honored with a Five-Year Creative Activity and Research Award, for his work on how water at high temperatures and at high pressure can isolate and separate chemicals. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)

Communications Professor Festus Eribo, winner of one of ECUʼs Five-Year Creative Activity and Research Awards, concentrates his study on press freedoms and media bias. (Photo by Erica Plouffe Lazure)



NewsMakers

In the Spotlight

Service, Honors and Professional Activities

Appointments/Elections

EC Scholars provided 30 Bel-voir Elementary School students with an enriching day on East Carolina Universi-tyʼs campus in January.

The day was coined “Campus Day Extravaganza” and was hosted by the 2005 EC Scholars and the Office of the EC Scholars and Honors Programs. Activities included a tour of ECUʼs cam-pus; a Storybook Theater, put on by Pro-fessor Patricia Clark and students from the School of Theater and Dance; a trip to Joyner Libraryʼs media center; and lunch, featuring a special guest appearance by Nancy Ballard, wife of ECU Chancellor Steve Ballard.

Scholars Host Extravaganza By Vickie Luttrell The Belvoir children, who have

been paired with an EC Scholar or ECU Honors student as tutor and “buddy” for this academic year, were given ECU sweatshirts, notebooks, pencils and a Uni-versity Honors Program sticker to start their Campus Day event.

All the participants are part of a community engagement and academic service learning program in which ECU students are paired with children of migrant Latino families in the Belvoir Elementary School community.

“We want these children to become acquainted with ECU and know the uni-versity is a friendly place where they

Belvoir Elementary School students joined in educational activities at the Joyner Library media center during the Campus Day Extravaganza. (Contributed photo)

A physiologist who has studied world renown cyclist Lance Armstrong will visit East Carolina University March 23.

Edward F. Coyle, a professor of kinesiology at the University of Texas at Austin will present “Lance Armstrongʼs Physiological Maturation: Sport Reflects Life” at 7 p.m. in the audito-rium of the Brody Medical Sciences Building at the Brody School of Medicine.

Coyle, who has studied Armstrongʼs cycling career at the University of Texas for nearly 15 years, will discuss how the cyclistʼs phys-iology and optimal training contributed to seven consecutive wins at the Tour de France.

“Sport is a system, and there are optimal ways in which the training and the recovery and the peaking for competi-tion can be combined, and thatʼs science,” Coyle said.

ECUʼs Walker Center offers simi-lar analyses to Olympic, college and high school-level athletes, said Peter Farrell, chair of ECUʼs Department of Exercise and Sport Science.

“We have quite a few students enrolled at ECU who would benefit from Dr. Coyleʼs presentation,” Farrell said. “Itʼs not every day that an athlete of Armstrongʼs caliber offers himself for study.”

The lecture is free, but donation opportunities for cancer research will be available. Armstrong overcame testicular cancer in the late 1990s. All proceeds will go to the Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center in Greenville.

The lecture is sponsored by the Department of Exercise and Sport Science and the Walker Center in the College of Health and Human Performance and the Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center, a joint venture of East Carolina University and University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina.

For additional information, con-tact Peter Farrell, chair of exercise and sport science, at (252) 328-4635 or [email protected].

Armstrong Study Featured

Coyle

Mel Markowski (Human Ecology) was named president-elect of the North American Society of Adlerian Psychology. He will serve on the board of directors until he takes office at associa-tionʼs next annual conference.

Martha Early (Human Ecology) was elected president of the N.C. Foundation for Alcohol and Drug Studies.

Bruce Flye (Institutional Planning, Research and Effectiveness) was selected to joing the faculty of the Planning Institute for the Society for College and University Planning (http://www.scup.org/profdev/pi/). Flye, who is also a member of the societyʼs Professional Development Committee, will con-duct a three-day workshop, “Strategic Application of Integrated Planning Processes,” beginning in January 2007.

The Albemarle Literary Council honored Bruce Southard (English) with the La Rochefoucauld Award, for his ded-ication to teaching via the written word.

The American Library Association of School Librarians recognized Diane D. Kester (Education) for the Master of Library Science degree in ECUʼs Depart-ment of Library Science and Instructional Technology.

Based on the recommendation of the National Advisory Committee, Joseph C. Ciechalski (Education) was named Distinguished Review for his longterm contributions to the Mental Measurements Yearbook series.

ECU Business Services Quest for Excellence award winners were Lucre-tia Davis (Central Stores and Receiving), Harrison Metcalf (Materials Manage-ment), Clinton Elbert (Mail Services), Gorham Clark (ECU 1 Card) and Doug Hill (Rapid Copy).

Rachel L. Roper (Medicine) is serving as grant reviewer for the National Institutes of Health, Infectious Dis-eases and Microbiology Review Group, Virology Study Section, and for the BioDefense and Emerging Infectious Dis-ease Research Opportunities Program in Arlington, Va.

Sylvia Brown (Nursing) received certification as a certified nurse educator through the National League for Nursing Academic Nurse Educator Certification Program. Brown and Martha Engelke (Nursing) were selected as reviewers for the Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Program through the U.S. Department of Education.

Harold Griffin (Education) is receiving the Felix S. Barker Award at the North Carolina Council for Exceptional Children Conference in March 2006, for contributions to special education.

Mel Markowski (Human Ecology) received the Arlis Epps Social Interest Award from the South Carolina Society of Adlerian Psychology, in recognition of his contributions to the field.

Jane C. Manner (Education) received the Teacher Educator Standards Commission Award from the Association of Teacher Educators at the Association of Teacher Educators 2006 Annual Meet-ing in Atlanta, Ga.

Gene Dixon (Computer Science and Technology) was part of a two-person panel opening the 16th Annual Kravis-DeRoulet Leadership Conference at Claremont McKenna College in Cla-remont, Calif. Serving with Dixon on the panel was Ira Chaleff, award winning author of The Courageous Follower.

The Department of University Pub-lications received a number of awards from the 21st annual admissions adver-tising competition sponsored by the Admissions Marketing Report. The department received the Gold Award in the Magazine Advertising Series for Schools with 20,000 or more students, for four image ads that appeared in vari-ous state and national magazines. Project staff were Jimmy Rostar (writer, edi-tor), Amanda Shaver (graphic designer) and Forrest Croce (photographer). The Merit Award for External Publications for Schools with 20,000 or more students went to the PhD in Coastal Resources Management booklet, staffed by Spaine Stephens (writer, editor); Brent Burch (art director, graphic designer) and Croce (photographer). Rostar (writer, editor) and Burch (art director, graphic designer) staffed the MBA Billboard Project, which won the Bronze Award in Outdoor Bill-boards for Graduate Schools. A Bronze Award for Student Viewbooks for Art/Design Schools went to the School of Art and Design Viewbook. Project staff were Stephens (editor) and Croce (photogra-pher) with Catherine Kehoe (art director, graphic designer) and Michael Crane (writer, project manager).


Linda Steele (Nursing) was fea-tured on the cover of NEWS-Line for Nurse Practitioners, in an article called, “Sign of the Times: One NPʼs Rewarding Journey,” Jan. 24.

Suezanne T. Orr (Medicine) quoted online in the Wall Street Journal, on stress during pregnancy, Jan. 26.

William Hill (Health Education) on WCTI-TV on rating the cleanliness of a home kitchen, Feb. 5.

M.H.N. Tabrizi (Technology and Computer Science) and Mary Farwell (Biology) were featured on a “NC Now” presentation on UNC-TV, demonstrating Tabirziʼs software for a virtual classroom environment, Feb. 9.

P.J. Schnarts (Medicine) on WCTI-TV and on WITN-TV, on his expe-riences as an Army surgeon in Iraq and Afghanistan, Feb. 20 and March 2.

Peter L. Francia (Political Science), was interviewed and quoted by the Cox News Service, in an article about organized labor and its position on an immigration bill sponsored by Senators McCain and Kennedy, Feb. 24.

Michael Cotter, assistant pro-fessor emeritus (Academic Library Services), on WITN-TV News, about the ALS Association (Lou Gehrigʼs disease) at the Keith LeClair Classic Baseball Tournament, Feb. 26.



Clinical Research Institute of Duke Uni-versity Medical Center and the North Carolina chapter of the American College of Cardiology. Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina is supporting the project with a $1 million grant.

Throughout the two-year project, RACE researchers will collect data on heart attack patients who receive treat-ment as well as those who would have been candidates for reperfusion ther-apy but did not receive it. The goal is to streamline patient evaluation and treat-ment. Reperfusion therapies involve using either a clot-dissolving drug or angioplasty. Clot-dissolving drugs are available at most hospitals, but angio-

plasty is not as widely available. “We have looked at the entire

sequence of events when a patient is hav-ing a heart attack, from the time EMS is called until the blocked artery is opened up, in order to shorten the time and save more heart muscle and more lives,” said Dr. Joseph Shiber, assistant clinical pro-fessor of emergency medicine at ECU.

In addition to streamlining care, RACE organizers aim to improve out-comes of heart attack patients by fund-ing educational nursing programs, con-ducting physician seminars on reperfu-sion therapies, providing emergency room guidelines and expanding the use of EKG machines in ambulances, so vital data on patients ̓hearts can be transmitted ahead to emergency personnel.

RACE Aims to Save Lives

Buccaneer yearbook editor Leigh Carter, a sophomore communication major, leafs through a few old ECU yearbook volumes. Carter and her staff are reviving the ECU yearbook after a 15-year hiatus. Portraits of graduates and ECU administrators will be made in March. The 2006 yearbooks will be available in August. (Photo by Erica Plouffe Lazure)


An Old Favorite Returns

East Carolina Universityʼs Mack Simpson, associate director for Commu-nity Development, traveled with three representatives from BBC World News Jan. 26.

The group visited the poverty-stricken areas of Bertie and Washington counties in north-eastern North Carolina.

The intention of the crew from BBC World News was to acquire information on the poverty epidemic in areas of North Carolina. The information was gathered to be part of a series called “North Carolina Voices: Understanding Poverty.” The crew had been in North Carolina for a week travel-ing to different impoverished areas.

The broadcast aired via radio on Jan. 27 on stations 90.9 FM, 91.5 FM and 88.9 FM and is available on the web at www.wunc.org, under the title “North Carolina Voices.”

Simpson Shows Regional Poverty for BBC News

The crew from BBC World News included world-renowned anchor Robin Lustig, from the London studio, and producer Jon Donnison, who heads the Washington D.C. bureau.

Ron Nowaczyk, ECUʼs associate vice chancellor of Economic and Com-munity Development, gave the BBC crew an orientation to the area and Simpson traveled with the crew all day.

BBC reporters interviewed civil-ians on the street and visited businesses and restaurants to discuss the poverty epi-demic that affects this and other areas of North Carolina. Bob Spivey, mayor of Windsor, was interviewed by the group in a local restaurant. According to Simp-son, “Mayor Spivey had a lot of insight into the poverty crisis that has taken over the area.”

“In Plymouth, you have natureʼs grandeur and you have old antebellum houses and then you have abject poverty,” Simpson said.

The poverty rate is 37.5 percent in Plymouth, compared to 12.7 percent across the country, yet residents are still devoted to living in this area.

“Most people said yes it was a poor area, but they liked living there anyway,” he said.

By Vickie Luttrell

Simpson

Treasured Pirates Selected

Martha Raile Alligood, profes-sor and director of the doctoral program in the East Carolina University School of Nursing, recently received the Lead-ership in Nursing Research Award from the South-ern Nursing Research Society.

The award was presented during the societyʼs 20th anni-versary conference in Mem-phis, Tenn., on Feb. 3. Alligoodʼs

Research Award Presentedresearch has focused on theories of adult human development and nursing empa-thy. Her work has been published in more than eight professional nursing journals and book chapters.

In addition to her own research, Alligood has supervised 12 dissertations and served on dissertation committees in nursing and related disciplines and has had eight refereed publications with grad-uate students. She also has co-edited two nursing theory textbooks.

Alligood earned her nurs-ing diploma from the Good Samaritan School of Nursing in Zanesville, Ohio, a bachelorʼs degree in nursing from the University of Virginia, a masterʼs degree in nursing from Ohio State University and her doctorate from New York University. She joined the ECU School of Nursing in August 2004.Alligood

ECU Treasured Pirate win-ners for December 2005, as provided by the Department of Human Resources, are Anthony Britt (Medicine - Admissions), Alvah Barnhill (Education-Deanʼs Office), Kimberly Floyd (Curriculum and Instruction), Vivian Covington (Teacher Education), Elmer Poe (Academic Outreach), Jonathan Powell (Academic Outreach), Betty Collins (Continuing Studies), Edward Traynor (Facilities Services - Mason Shop),

Toicha Williams (Medicine - Anatomic Pathology), Wanda Wilson (Medicine - Surgery Administration Clinics), Lorraine Riggins (Medicine - Emergency Medical Administration), Ingeburg McMillan (Library Services), and Douglas Barnum (Center for Health Sciences Communication).

The Treasured Pirate award is an “on the spot” award created to recognize ECU employees and their unique contributions to a university unit or to the university.

Service, 10 a.m., Victory Bell adjacent to Christenbury Memorial Gymnasium

• Wednesday, March 29: Ground-breaking for North Recreational Complex, 1 p.m., near the intersection of US 264 East/US 264 Alternate; Student Leadership: The Elite Pirate Program, 3 p.m., Hendrix Theatre; Birthday Party for Students, 4 p.m., the Mall

• Thursday, March 30: Chancellorʼs Forum on Leadership, 10 a.m., Hendrix

Theatre; Luncheon on the Mall, Noon (ticket required); A Dialogue among 99 Leaders, 2 p.m., MSC; “Thomas Harriott Voyages of Discovery” lecture, 7:30 p.m., Hendrix Theatre.

• Friday, March 31: Founders Award Luncheon, Noon, Murphy Cen-ter – ticket required; Groundbreaking for East Carolina Heart Institute, 3 p.m., Lot G, Emergency Drive

• Saturday, April 1: Youth Arts Fes-tival, Mall of ECU, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

ECU Celebrates 99 Yearsc o n t i n u e d f r o m p a g e 1

c o n t i n u e d f r o m p a g e 3

The Buccaneer is back. After a 15-year hiatus, East

Carolina University is reviving its year-book. Yearbook editor Leigh Carter, a sophomore, is excited about the Buccaneer s̓ resurrection aptly named “Rediscovered Treasure.”

“When youʼre in high school, thereʼs no choice, you go near where you live,” Carter said.

“In college, you get to pick where you go. And where you pick becomes a part of who you are.”

Through news articles and photo-graphs, ECUʼs yearbook, said Carter, will capture the yearʼs key events and issues.

Ryan Snyder, ECU yearbook advi-sor, said that a $4 student activity fee, approved by ECUʼs Student Media Board, would offset the cost of the year-book. The yearbook will cost $49.95 with shipping, through the Dallas-based firm, Taylor Publishing.

“This is something they can hold on to forever and for a reasonable cost,” Snyder said. The spring 2006 yearbooks, which will be available in August, will not offer advertising space, but student and faculty organizations can purchase pages for their group pictures and mes-sages. Costs for organization pages are $200 to $500.

Efforts are underway to collect arti-cles about and portraits of graduating students and ECU administrators before the April 24 deadline.

Snyder said the 2007 yearbooks will mark ECUʼs Centennial and will

provide a hallmark for the celebration. Snyder is working with ECU staffers Genevia Hill, Ken Robol and Yvonne Moye, along with a staff of six students, to make the yearbook a reality.

Portraits for 2006 spring graduates and ECU administrators and deans will be taken March 22-24. The deadline for appointments is March 20 at 5 p.m. Call 252-328-9236 for more information.

The Buccaneer web site is http://www.buccaneer.ecu.edu.



Presentations

Publications

contaminated by pesticides and other toxic material.

“Every chemist knows that water at room temperature is very polar and that most contaminants are non-polar,” Yang said. “When water increases in tempera-ture and pressure, its polarity decreases dramatically to a level similar to many organic species. So, the solubility of the organic contaminants in subcritical water is intensified.”

Yang has also found that subcritical water could be useful in chromato-graphy applications. Chromatography is a method used to separate, identify and quantify components of a gaseous or liquid mixture, and is often used by phar-maceutical plants, food companies and other manufacturing firms.

“If you inject a solution that has fifty different components into the sys-tem, you should have 50 different, identifiable peaks,” Yang said. Each “peak” corresponds with a chemical compound. “What usually happens is scientists use organic solvents in chroma-tography to achieve the goal of separation of a given mixture. Instead of using sol-vents, we use subcritical water.”

Yang was educated in China and

Germany. He came to ECU after work-ing for several years at the Energy and Environmental Research Center in North Dakota. He has presented his research at dozens of international and national conferences and has received grants from Research Corporation, Hewlett-Packard and the Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh. In addition to several teaching awards, including the UNC Board of Governor's Award for Distinguished Teaching, Yang has also received six research grants from East Carolina University. He was awarded the Five-Year Creative Activity and Research Award at a ceremony in August.

Yang hopes to continue to expand and broaden his Green Chemistry research. However, he acknowledges that it will still take some doing to con-vince industries to change their methods of operation.

“It is still a new technology. And new technology takes lots of time and money. If you think about the environ-mental concerns, like pollution, and possible remedies, a lot of work still needs to be done and this could benefit lots of people,” Yang said. “I would like to put this to work and help more peo-ple. Billions of liters of organic solvents can be saved. Not enough people realize that.”

High Temps Fuel Research

YOUTH ARTS: ECU will host the second annual Youth Arts Festival April 1 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the campus mall. The festival will feature more than 100 visual and performing artists who will share their creative talents with area children, said ECU School of Art Director Richard Tichich. Children will have the opportunity to create art and visit with artists who will demonstrate activities such as wheel thrown ceramics, traditional watercolor painting, weaving, felting, paper-making, printmaking, portraiture and other visual art media. Among this year's performers are the Ballet Folklorico Mexicano Azteca, woodworker Charles Brown, indigo dyer Arianne King Comer, rag weaver and ECU alumna Rabiah Hodges, and felter Sharron Parker, also a graduate of ECU. Activities are free and open to the public. In case of rain, events will be held in the Jenkins Fine Arts Building. (Contributed photo)

Presentation by Karen Dawkins (Education), “The Use of Narrative Writing Prompts in a Fourth Grade Science Lesson Regarding Elec-trical Circuits,” at the Association of Science Teacher Educators in Portland, Ore.

Presentation by Kim Floyd (Education), “Inte-grating Technology into Inclusive Preschools” and “BETCHA: Beginning Education Through Childhood Accessibility,” at the Assistive Tech-nology Industry Association conference in Or-lando, Fla.

Presentation by Joyce Newman (College of Arts and Sciences) and Nanyoung Kim (Art), “Bo-tanical Illustration with Watercolor,” at the North Carolina Art Education Association annual con-ference in Asheville.

Presentation by David G. Weismiller (Medi-cine), “Medical Complications of Pregnancy,” at the winter meeting of the Florida Academy of Family Physicians – Amelia Island, Fla.

Poster presentations by Nursing faculty Eliza-beth D. Jesse, Janice Taleff and Jackie Hutch-erson, with co-presenters, “Reusable Learning Units: Maximizing the Efficient Use of Faculty and Educational Resources,” at Teaching with Technology 2005: A Think-In of Best Practices at ECU; and with co-presenters, “Reusable Units of Learning: An Innovative Teaching Strategy for Online Nurse-Midwifery Education,” for the School of Nursing Scholarship Colloquium at ECU. Also by Jesse with Christyn Dolbier (Psychology) and co-author, a poster presentation at the Graduate Student Conference for Marriage and Family Therapy, “Focus Group: Coping with Feelings During Pregnancy.”

Presentations by Bobby Lowery (Nursing),

“Nurse Practitioners: Using Your GPS to Fine Tune Your Practice Setting,” at the APRN (Ad-vanced Practice Registered Nurses) Summit in Winston-Salem; and “Nurse Practitioner Edu-cation and Practice: A Discussion on NP Edu-cation, Practice, Economics and NP Utilization in Primary Care Settings in N.C.,” for the N.C. Institute of Medicine in Durham.

Presentations by Nursing faculty at the Sigma The-ta Tau International Convention in Indianapolis, Ind.: by Mary K. Kirkpatrick, “Complimentary Care: Infusing”; by Martha R. Alligood, “Ap-plying Nursing Knowledge to Improve Patient Care at a Major Medical Center”; by Nancy Ste-phenson and Mel Swanson, “Partner-Delivered Reflexology: Effects on Cancer Pain”; by Kirk-patrick and Sylvia Brown, “Pedagogical Strate-gies for the Development of Future Nurse Educa-tors.” Also at the conference, poster presentations by Martha Engelke, Mary Ann Rose, Maura McAuliffe and co-presenters, “Nurses ̓Percep-tions of Challenges in Caring for the Morbidly Obese”; and by Elaine Scott, “The Transition of New Graduate Nurses into the Workplace.”

Presentation by Rebecca Dumlao and Kelli Munn (Communications), “Project Based Ser-vice Learning: Adopting a Community Partner,” at the North Carolina Campus Compact meeting at Elon College.

Presentation by Paul J. Clifford (Alumni), “Alumni Chapters Today and Tomorrow,” at the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education District Conference in Nashville, Tenn. Clifford also moderated a discussion, “Does Your Advancement Team Reflect Your Alumni Base: Adding Diversity to Your Ad-vancement Office.”

Article by William Sugar (Education), “In-structional Technologist as a Coach: Impact of a Situated Professional Development Program on Teachers ̓Technology Use,” in the Journal of Technology and Teacher Education. Also by Sugar with co-author, “Seeking Alternatives for In-service Technology Workshops from the Teacherʼs Perspective,” in the Journal of Com-puting in Teacher Education.

Article by Education faculty Cheryl McFadden, Kermit Buckner, and co-author, “Districts and Preparation Programs to Induct School Leaders,” in NASSP Connections (National Association of Secondary School Principals).

Book co-authored by Anna Lyon (Education), New Essentials for Teaching Reading in Pre-K-2.

Article by Juan J. Daneri (Foreign Languages and Literatures), “Escatología y política jesuitas. La profecía del fin de los tiempos según Manuel Lacunza,” in Mapocho.

Book by Conner Garris (Nursing), CCPR Study Workbook for Certification Review: Neonatal In-tensive Care and Neonatal Nurse Practitioner.

Two books co-edited by Martha Alligood (Nurs-ing), Nursing Theorists and Their Work and Nurs-ing Theory: Utilization and Application.

Article by Linda Steele (Nursing), “Advanced Practice Questions: The Adult Nursing Practitio-ner,” in Synergy for Clinical Excellence, selected as first place in critical care for the AJN (American Journal of Nursing) Book of the Year. Also by Steele with James Steele (Nursing), “Cancer” in Gerontologic Nursing; and with co-authors, “The Quality of Life of Hospice Patients: The Relation-ship between Symptom Distress and Quality of Life,” in the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care.

Article by Nursing faculty D. Elizabeth Jesse and Melvin Swanson with co-authors, “Risks and

Protective Factors Associated with Symptoms of Depression in African-American and Caucasian Low-Income Pregnant Women,” in the Journal of Midwifery and Women s̓ Health.

Articles by Margaret Arnd-Caddigan (Human Ecology): “Transference and Countertransference in the Treatment of Adult Survivors of Abuse with a Somatoform Disorder,” in the Clinical Social Work Journal; “Somatoform Disorders and a History of Abuse: Comorbidity, Dynam-ics and Practice Implications,” in the Journal of Social Work; and “Evidence Based Practice: A Formula for Unjust Treatment,” in Social Justice in Context 2005.

Article by Human Ecology faculty Madhava Bo-dapati and Darrell Ross, “A Risk Management Assessment of the Claims, Losses, and Litigations of Police Agencies in Michigan: 1958 to 1999,” in Policing: International Journal of Police Strate-gies and Management. Also by Ross, Liability Issues in Corrections; with co-author, Sudden Death in Custody; and an article, “Liability Issues of Custodial Restraint Death in Corrections,” in the Criminal Law Bulletin.Article by David Y. Chang (Human Ecology) with co-authors, “The Relationship Among Trustworthiness, Time Lapse, and Online Res-ervation in the Hospitality and Tourism Indus-try,” in the Journal of Advances in Hospitality and Leisure.Article by Human Ecology faculty Jennifer Hodgson, Angela Lamson and David Dosser with co-authors, “The Impact of Hurricane Floyd on Eastern North Carolinaʼs School-Aged Chil-dren,” in the Journal of Trauma Practice. Article by Lesly T. Mega (Medicine), Susan McCammon (Psychology) and Angela Lam-son (Human Ecology), “School-Based Post Flood Screening and Evaluation: Findings and Challenges in One Community,” in the Stress, Trauma, and Crisis Journal.




Campus Calendar

Exhibitions

MARCH

Sweet Potato Pies Rule at Brody Soul Food Cookoff

nine known pirate shipwrecks and the history surrounding their demise, includ-ing the Queen Anne s̓ Revenge off North Carolinaʼs Beaufort Inlet and the Whydah, which was discovered off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts in the early 1980s. Contributors also address the dif-ferences between pirates, buccaneers and privateers and the ethical implica-tions faced by scientists working with treasure-hunting divers or adventure div-ers (non-academic divers who pillage shipwreck sites). One of the many prob-lems scientists have with working in this type of setting is that sites are not exca-vated using the meticulous methods of the academic. Instead, much of the site is destroyed very quickly in order to expose

Ewen Edits, Writes on Piracy

Sweet potato pie edged out banana pudding by a crumb at a soul food coo-koff held Feb. 17 at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University.

Rosa Daniels, a housekeeper at the medical school, received cooking supplies and a dash of pride for having the top dish at the event hosted by the Student National Medical Association at the Brody Medical Sciences Building.

As slides commemorating black Americans ̓contributions to medicine played on a screen, cookoff participants, visitors and judges dined on the follow-ing: macaroni and cheese by student Kara Regan, pecan pie by staff member Beverly Moore, chocolate bread pudding with whiskey sauce by visiting instruc-tor Chris Bonnerup, banana pudding by student Rob Fish, sweet potato casse-role by student Kitila Smith, molasses pudding by staff member Jennifer Harris and Daniels ̓pie, as well as string beans and fried chicken provided by Chrystal Harris, a second-year medical student and vice president of the Brody SNMA chapter.

Fish received an honorable men-tion for his banana pudding, dubbed “Bobby Rayʼs Banana Bonanza.”

Cookoff judges were Dr. Harry Adams, a clinical professor of med-icine; Dr. Virginia Hardy, associate dean of intercultural affairs, counseling

and diversity; and Jason Lowery, a sec-ond-year medical student. Hardy said she judged the entries based on several factors, including “if it tastes like my mamaʼs.”

By Doug Boyd

Rosa Daniels, a member of the housekeeping staff at the Brody School of Medicine, won first place with her sweet potato pies at a soul food cookoff held Feb. 17. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)

heavier objects. Light objects are washed away, leaving a wrecking ball of an archaeological site.

“Should you work with them? As long as you can get permits to loot these ships then itʼs legal,” Ewen said. “The problem with collaboration is that you do send a message that what they are doing is okay.”

The book includes several authors with East Carolina University ties, including Wayne Lusardi, an ECU alum-nus who wrote the chapter “The Beaufort Inlet Shipwreck Artifact Assemblage” and Lawrence Babits, an ECU maritime history professor who co-authored a chapter on pirate imagery with ECU graduate students Joshua Howard and Matthew Brenckle.

The Cardiovascular Imaging Center in the Brody School of Medicine was reaccredited by the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Echocardiography Laboratories.

The center is one of the first 1,000 echocardiography labs in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico to be so recognized for its commitment to

high quality patient care and its pro-vision of quality diagnostic testing.

Accreditation status signifies that the facility has been reviewed by an independent agency which rec-ognizes its commitment to quality testing for the diagnosis of heart dis-ease. Dr. Assad Movahed, professor of medicine and radiology, serves as director.

Cardiovascular Imaging Center Reaccredited

In Memoriam


SATURDAY 11

Contra Dance, Willis Bldg. Dinner, 6 p.m.; concert, 7 p.m.; lesson, 7:30 p.m., dance – 8 to 10:30 p.m.

SUNDAY 12

Spring Break – through March 19

FRIDAY 17

Salsa Dance, Willis Bldg. Lesson, 7:30 p.m.; dance, 8 – 11 p.m.

THURSDAY 23

Premiere Performances, Fletcher Recital Hall, 8 p.m.

Edward F. Coyle Lecture, “Lance Armstrongʼs Physiological Maturation: Sport Reflects Life,” Brody School of Medicine auditorium, 7 p.m.

FRIDAY 24

Contra Dance, Willis Bldg. Lesson, 7:30 p.m.; dance, 8 – 10:30 p.m.

ECU Voice Faculty Collage Concert, Fletcher, 7 p.m.

S. R. Alexander Performing Arts Series, Russian National Ballet, “La Bayadere,” Wright Auditorium, 8 p.m.

SATURDAY 25

Family Fun Day, Adult and Commuter Students, SRC and MSC, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

High School Singers Symposium: Festival Choice Concert, Wright, 4 p.m.

SUNDAY 26

Early Music Ensemble, Fletcher Recital Hall, 7 p.m.

MONDAY 27

Founders Week, through March 31.

Community Leaders Breakfast, Jarvis

Memorial Church, 7:30 a.m.

Chancellorʼs Community Advisory Council Forum, Eppes Recreation Center, 7 p.m.

TUESDAY 28

Victory Bell Service, adjacent to Christen-bury Gymnasium, 10 a.m.

Guest Artist Concert: Nadedja Vlaeva, piano, Fletcher, 8 p.m.

WEDNESDAY 29

North Recreational Complex Ground-breaking, 1 p.m.

Student Leadership: The Elite Pirate Program, Hendrix Theatre, 3 p.m.

ECU 99th Birthday Party for students, Campus Mall, 4 p.m.

ECU Guitar Ensemble, Fletcher, 8 p.m.

THURSDAY 30

Chancellorʼs Forum on Leadership,, Hendrix Theatre, 10 a.m.

Luncheon on the Mall, noon

A Dialogue among 99 Leaders, Menden-hall, 2 p.m.

College of Education Scholarship Awards Ceremony, Willis Bldg., 3 p.m.

Lecture, “Thomas Harriott Voyages of Discovery,” Hendrix Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

FRIDAY 31

Founders Award Luncheon, Murphy Center, noon.

Groundbreaking for East Carolina Heart Institute, 3 p.m.

Swing Dance, Willis Bldg. Lesson, 7:30 p.m.; dance, 8 – 10:30 p.m.

APRIL

SATURDAY 1

ECU Youth Arts Festival, campus mall, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Premiere Performances, Fletcher, 8 p.m.

Friends of the School of Theatre and Dance, “Night of the Rising Stars” annual fund-raising dinner and performances, Greenville Convention Center.

2006 School of Art and Design Under-graduate Exhibition, Gray Gallery (through April 1).

2006 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Gray Gallery, April 13 – May 22.

“A Century of Education and Impact: The History of East Carolina University, An Exhibit in Four Parts”; “Series 1: The Founding of an Institution,” on display at Joyner Library 4th floor through Sept. 15. Reception, March 28 at 7 p.m. (http://www.ecu.edu/cs-lib/archives/exhibit1.cfm)

“North Carolina Railroad Sampler,” an exhibit that sheds light on the history of railroads in North Carolina, Verona Joyner Langford North Carolina Collection (through April 30).

Andrew Best, Greenville physician and former member of the UNC Board of Governors, died Dec. 7, 2005.Chia-yu Li (Chemistry) died Dec. 14, 2005.Linda Allred (Psychology) died Dec. 26, 2005.James L. White (retired, Business Education) died Jan. 22.Gay Wilentz (English professor, Director of Ethnic Studies, and coordinator of the multicultural lit-erature concentration), died Feb. 6 in Belize. She was the wife of John Sabella (Agromedicine).



On Campus


Indulgence is Sweet at Class Culinaire

can come to learn,” said Dr. Michael Bassman, assistant vice chancellor and director of the EC Scholars and Honors programs at ECU. “I also hope experi-

ences like this on campus will help spur additional curiosity for learning and sup-port their ambitions to attend college some day. Since these students come from migrant families, they may not see col-lege as a real possibility or as an oppor-

tunity in the future. We want to change that.”

The ECU students ̓involvement with this community consists of tutor-ing the Belvoir School children in reading and writing. ECU students benefit by par-ticipating in service learning and immer-sion in the cultural and ethnic diversity in their own community. All of the children in the program and in the campus event are children of migrant workers.

“With their involvement in the Bel-voir Program, the EC Scholars and ECU Honors students are developing positive relationships with the children while they gain a diverse cultural awareness and increased knowledge of the health and economic issues within the Latino com-munity,” Bassman said.

The EC Scholars program is a four-year program consisting of a merit schol-arship, research and community outreach programs. About 90 percent of these scholars are pre-med or are majoring in allied health programs.

Bassman said during his time as

EC Scholars Host ʻCampus Day Extravaganzaʼdirector of the programs at ECU, he dis-covered that because so many of the ECU students had advanced placement cred-its from high school, they were able to bypass many humanities and social sci-ence classes as undergraduates.

“Our students are extremely gifted and have wonderful opportunities ahead of them, but it is important to ensure they can gain a broad cultural knowledge,” said Bassman. “The students need to be exposed to rural communities, diver-sity and agricultural societies. Given the recent influx in our region of mem-bers of the Latino community, there is a great need for future health-care profes-sionals to develop a comprehensive cul-tural understanding of this community,” he said.

Bassman noted that while serving the developmental needs of the EC Schol-ars, the project also serves critical educa-tional needs of the Latino population in Pitt County.

For more information on EC Schol-ars, visit www.ecu.edu/honors.

Hundreds of sculptors and artists convened February at the 2006 North Carolina Sculpture Consortium Confer-ence, hosted by ECUʼs sculp-ture department. In addition to craft demonstrations, sculp-tors Richard Hunt, Hoss Hal-ey and Jesʼus Moroles gave lectures about their work. At left, ECU student James Da-vis demonstrates how to form metal using an English wheel. (Photo by Dan Millspaugh)

Artists Gather

Just in time to prepare tastebuds for the upcoming Valentineʼs Day celebration, ECU Campus Dining presented the first monthly Class Culinaire, Feb. 7 at Sweetheartʼs in Todd Dining Hall. Executive Chef Felix Fernandez (above) demonstrated how to make chocolate truffles and other delicious concoctions. Participants then had the opportunity to make some treats of their own. The hands-on cooking class is

a spin-off of the popular Cooking with Class series. Like that series, the Class Culinaire filled up only minutes after the class was announced on ECU e-mail. At top right, a display of chocolate-based cookbooks invited participants to try new recipes. At bottom right is the class favorite – a mouth-watering fresh strawberry dipped in chocolate. (Photos by Marc J. Kawanishi)

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