Arts and Sciences Archives

Dec 08, 2025
  • Jules Norwood

Airline pricing study informs ongoing litigation

In 2024, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) mandated that airlines fully disclose fees up front when passengers book flights in an effort to make pricing more transparent and enable...

Dec 08, 2025
  • Lacey L. Gray

Digital humanities projects foster student leadership

Seeing historic locations with one’s own eyes, hearing sounds of a bustling city, feeling cobblestone walkways underfoot, and smelling and tasting delicacies from a foreign culture are experiences that last...

Nov 26, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Research earns first-time W.T. Grant Foundation award

East Carolina University professors are investigating how educators’ identities and values shape classroom instruction and how these factors influence students’ sense of belonging, engagement and overall well-being. The research has...

A woman with brown hair pulled in a ponytail wearing a purple sweatshirt counts out play money to hand to a woman sitting behind a table. Other young people are lined up in a large room where they are waiting to talk to people sitting in chairs behind the tables.
Nov 26, 2025
  • Crystal Baity

Life happens: Students plan post-graduation budgets

A trip to the emergency room. A flat tire. Life happens. East Carolina University students encountered all that and more in the Making Cent$ of Life After College event sponsored...

Nov 25, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Neuroscience symposium links students, scientists and innovation

On a bright Halloween day, researchers from East Carolina University and institutions across the state gathered for the 27th annual ECU Neuroscience Symposium to show off their work to fight...

Madison Howlett stands confidently on ECU’s campus, framed by tall trees and brick buildings with columns. She wears a black long-sleeve top and gray pants, with her hands in her pockets, smiling softly at the camera. The background shows autumn leaves and campus walkways.
Nov 18, 2025
  • Alondra Martinez

Student: Madison Howlett

If you were to describe East Carolina University senior Madison Howlett in one word, it would be driven. A fitting description for a pre-med student who balances life as a...

Nov 14, 2025
  • ECU News Services

Trustees approve degree conferral at November meeting

In its final meeting of 2025, the East Carolina University Board of Trustees approved conferral of degrees for 1,863 graduates at ECU’s fall commencement on Dec. 19 in Minges Coliseum....

Nov 13, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

Authors recognized for scholarly contributions

East Carolina University’s libraries formally recognized ECU authors during a two-day span, hosting a ceremony on Health Sciences Campus and then a Main Campus ceremony the following day. “This enriches...

Group of people standing on field inside a large stadium with red and black seating. The Mercedez-Benz logo is visible and several individuals are wearing VIP passes.
Oct 30, 2025
  • Kristen Martin

Honors student leaders find inspiration in Atlanta

Laasya Chenna waded into shoulder-high greenery, her eyes searching for two targets: Johnson grass and ragweed. Once she spotted one of the invasive species, she carefully uprooted it and deposited...

Oct 24, 2025
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU awarded $1.65 million to continue researching gambling behavior, risk

East Carolina University’s Gambling Research Policy Initiative (GRPI) has received an extension of a half-million-dollar grant that ended in August of this year. The new $1.65 million funding from the...