Arts and Sciences Archives

Oct 31, 2019
  • ECU News Services

SPOOKY STORIES

Still trying to get into the Halloween "spirit"? Or just can't get enough of #ECUFrightWeek? Trick or treat yourself to these ECU spooky stories – from a how-to safety guide...

Oct 31, 2019
  • ECU News Services

Pirates can now spend a semester at the Outer Banks

The beach isn’t just for spring break anymore. Up to 20 students will have the opportunity to spend the spring 2020 semester at East Carolina University’s Outer Banks Campus in...

Oct 24, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU Voyages guest to discuss contributions to improved air quality

Dr. R.K.M. Jayanty, chemist and distinguished fellow emeritus for RTI International, will present “My Life Journey and Scientific Contributions to Improve Air Quality” at 7 p.m. Nov. 7, in the...

Oct 23, 2019
  • Jules Norwood

ZOMBIE CRABS

A parasitic barnacle present in eastern North Carolina’s estuaries is highly damaging to its mud crab hosts — castrating them and replacing the crab’s reproductive system with its own, fooling...

Oct 23, 2019
  • ECU News Services

Award-winning Chinese American poet and sitarist to perform at ECU

East Carolina University and the Contemporary Writers Series soon will welcome two guests to campus. Award-winning poet Li-Young Lee and David Whetstone, one of the most active sitarists in the...

Oct 22, 2019
  • Jamie Smith

SUPERNATURAL

Have you heard bumps in the night in buildings on East Carolina University’s campus? Maybe a door slamming mysteriously in Christenbury Gym. Cold brushes of air in Joyner Library. Children...

Oct 21, 2019
  • ECU News Services

Research team works to prevent blood donation spoilage

Every two seconds someone in the United States needs blood and, despite nearly 6.8 million domestic blood donors each year, blood banks face a serious problem. Blood has a very...

Oct 18, 2019
  • Jules Norwood

FEAR IN FILM

Since the earliest days of commercial cinema, filmmakers have produced movies intended to shock and terrify their audience — and viewers keep coming back for more. This Halloween season, Dr....

Oct 09, 2019
  • Ken Buday

SURGICAL SUPPORT

For the first time, a company started by East Carolina University faculty members has received a Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant from the National Institutes of Health....

Oct 08, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU guest lecturer to discuss ‘A History of the International LGBT Movement’

Dr. Laura Belmonte, professor of history and dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech, will visit East Carolina University for the 36th annual Lawrence...