Arts and Sciences Archives

Dr. Megan Perry talks about a coffin, recovered from the Rhem family ancestral tomb in New Bern’s Cedar Grove cemetery, with family member Michael Miller, right, and anthropology graduate students Bridget Cone and Ceara Nicholson.
Apr 11, 2022
  • Lacey L. Gray

ANCESTRAL TOMB RESEARCH

East Carolina University faculty and graduate students in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Anthropology are acquiring real-world skills through a project involving an ancestral tomb more than...

Apr 08, 2022
  • Jules Norwood

ECU, UNC Pembroke team up to serve students

Deans and administrators from East Carolina University and the University of North Carolina at Pembroke met Thursday at the ECU Health Sciences Campus Student Center to ink an agreement that...

ECU student Ishani Shelat sits near the Sci-Tech Building.
Apr 04, 2022
  • Crystal Baity

Student: Ishani Shelat

If you’ve ever forgotten where you put your glasses, East Carolina University senior Ishani Shelat may be able to help. A biochemistry major and future optometrist, Shelat’s also earning an...

U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo visits with students during a class prior to her public event at East Carolina University.
Apr 01, 2022
  • Lacey L. Gray

HARJO MOVES AUDIENCE

East Carolina University welcomed United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo with a full house on Wednesday in the Main Campus Student Center Black Box Theater. Harjo, the first Native American poet...

Mar 31, 2022
  • Ken Buday

OVERCOMING OBSTACLES

Lindsey Richardson attended two community colleges as well as ECU early in her academic career. “Life happens,” Richardson said. She took time off from her studies to care for her...

Mar 31, 2022
  • Ken Buday

BACK TO SCHOOL

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, self-described handyman Matt Rice mustered little work. He paints houses, repairs appliances and puts down tile, but with COVID concerns, he felt uncomfortable walking into strangers’...

Mar 30, 2022
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU’s Voyages of Discovery Series features distinguished teaching professor of environmental biology

East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences wraps up the 15th season of its signature Voyages of Discovery Series at 7 p.m. April 14 with a free,...

Mar 17, 2022
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU Big Read to conclude with reading by U.S. Poet Laureate

East Carolina University will host “A Reading by United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo,” with a reading from her works and an audience question-and-answer session at 7 p.m. on March...

Mar 11, 2022
  • Jules Norwood

ECHI hosts annual meeting of reproductive biology consortium

The Triangle Consortium for Reproductive Biology had its 30th annual meeting this month at the East Carolina Heart Institute. Dr. Chris Geyer, associate professor of anatomy and cell biology at...

Mar 08, 2022
  • Ken Buday

ECU engineering students install equipment in support of environmental research

Engineers are always learning — even if that learning takes place on a warm afternoon in the middle of a field. A group of engineering students at East Carolina University...