Arts and Sciences Archives

Jun 14, 2021
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU students gain real-world experience interpreting data on seafloor earthquakes

Dr. Meg Blome, teaching assistant professor of geological sciences at East Carolina University, regularly teaches more than 50 students in an introductory oceanography course, but only half of those students...

Jun 11, 2021
  • Natalie Sayewich

MAPPING COVID-19

When limited resources prevent everyone from having immediate access to COVID-19 vaccines, how do you determine who needs them most urgently? Where are they located? How can you get the...

Jun 09, 2021
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU receives a National Endowment for the Arts Big Read grant

East Carolina University is one of 61 organizations nationwide selected to receive a 2021-22 National Endowment for the Arts Big Read grant. The grant project, directed by Dr. Marianne Montgomery,...

Jun 07, 2021
  • Jules Norwood

Two new millipede species named for ECU employees

What’s long and flat, has many pairs of jointed legs, and is named for an East Carolina University employee? Two newly described species of millipedes, Nannaria breweri and Nannaria spruilli,...

Jun 07, 2021
  • Lacey L. Gray

RECLAIMING HISTORY

East Carolina University students in the Department of Anthropology are back in the field this summer helping recover and catalog abandoned cemeteries across eastern North Carolina. Under the direction of...

Jun 01, 2021
  • ECU News Services

Mitchell named winner of NCLR’s creative nonfiction prize

Steve Mitchell of Greensboro is the winner of the 2021 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize for “Ultimate Trip.” Mitchell will receive $400, and his essay will be published in the...

May 27, 2021
  • Lacey L. Gray

ENCOURAGING ARCHAEOLOGICAL DIVERSITY

Preserving history and heritage is a prominent goal in the field of archaeology, and East Carolina University’s Maritime Studies Program helps students gain the knowledge to meet that goal through...

May 27, 2021
  • Matt Smith

Baile selected to national economic and community engagement student advisory group

Rising East Carolina University senior Maggie Baile will represent the university on the inaugural Association of Public and Land-grant Universities’ (APLU) Commission on Economic and Community Engagement (CECE) Student Advisory...

May 26, 2021
  • ECU News Services

Mercer’s children’s book teaches basics of government

East Carolina University’s Calvin Mercer, professor of religion, has co-authored a children’s book titled “There Ought to Be a Law: A Bright Day at the Capitol,” an informational story for...

May 24, 2021
  • Crystal Baity

Student: Kama Woodall

Kama Woodall hopes to represent young, disadvantaged people within the legal system one day. The aspiring attorney is a senior majoring in psychology and philosophy at East Carolina University —...