ECU POLL
East Carolina University started a polling center three years ago with the goal of conducting accurate election polling that could garner national attention. With the 2020 election season underway, those...
Arts and Sciences Archives
Voyages speaker: Climate change affects all, need to talk more about it
East Carolina University’s Voyages of Discovery Series recently hosted its first live-streamed event, reducing the carbon footprint of the university, the event speaker and hundreds of attendees. This was appropriate,...
E-CIGARETTE EXPOSURE
East Carolina University researchers have been awarded a National Institutes of Health grant to measure secondhand and thirdhand exposure to electronic cigarette use inside vehicles as well as conduct an...
ECU’s Center for Health Disparities names director
Dr. Keith Keene has been named director of the East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine Center for Health Disparities (CHD), effective Aug. 1, 2020. He has served as the...
SUFFRAGE AT 100
One hundred years ago, the ratification of the 19th Amendment extended the right to vote to women in the United States. The story of the women who fought for the...
Atmospheric scientist to present virtual ECU Voyages Series lecture on climate change
East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences will launch the 14th season of its signature Voyages of Discovery Series on Sept. 17 with a free, virtual, livestreamed...
FUNDING COVID-19 RESEARCH
East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine will put the CARES Act funding it received from the North Carolina General Assembly toward developing better treatments, advancing vaccine research and minimizing...
FIELDING MARITIME HISTORY
Nine East Carolina University graduate students are investigating a shipwreck close to home this fall as part of an annual field school. The students in ECU’s Program in Maritime Studies,...
Sociology student publishes cross-collaborative research with pediatric faculty
Sarah Watson, an East Carolina University graduate student in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences (THCAS) Department of Sociology, is applying her studies to important cross-collaborative, clinical research....
English faculty’s virtual reality design of Irish castle receives NEH humanities grant
The National Endowment for the Humanities recently announced $30 million for 238 humanities projects nationwide. Dr. Tom Herron, professor of English at East Carolina University, will receive a portion of...