With the first student case of H1N1 confirmed on campus last week, professor of nursing Dr. Chris Jackson offers advice on how to stay healthy. The H1N1 case was originally diagnosed as Influenza A, but, after being sent for further research, tested positive for the H1N1 virus. The student overcame […]
Toward the end of the 2009 spring semester, news spread throughout campus that two new majors would be available for students: nursing and engineering. So far, these plans are only partially underway: While students can easily sign up for and take nursing classes, there are no engineering classes available on […]
Over one million people in the US have had H1N1 already in 2009. Is H1N1 more dangerous than the usual flu virus? H1N1 is not more harmful than the typical flu virus. The number of hospitalizations and deaths caused by H1N1 are actually lower than the number caused by the […]
Business students with Dr. Jack Bower on their original schedules were surprised on the first day of classes to learn that the assistant professor of accounting was lying in a coma at the hospital. Bower, who started convulsing during a doctor’s visit on Aug. 24, was in the coma for […]
Accounting professor Rick Jonsen believes that it is “God’s timing” that brought him to Eastern from the huge multinational company Johnson & Johnson, where he worked from 1997 until 2009. Recently, Jonsen and his wife transferred from California to New Jersey for his post as the Director of Talent Acquisition […]
The Warner Library atrium was filled to capacity when Dr. Tony Campolo and his wife Peggy came to debate the controversial topic of homosexuality. The event was sponsored by Refuge, Eastern’s gay-straight alliance. The room buzzed with anticipation as junior Elise Yarnell and Abby De Silva, co-presidents of Refuge, introduced […]
AP Images Eastern students and faculty now have access to 5 million copyright-free images on the AP Images database. The images on this database will not have distracting watermarks and can be enlarged without looking grainy. Specific searches by color, subject and other categories are possible, and the images can […]
“After three years of serving students and shaping leaders who will surely change communities and lives, the Eastern in the City one-year undergraduate program will be closing,” according to the letter that was distributed to the administration, faculty and staff of Eastern in February. EIC was a program under the […]