HALF CENTURY OF SERVICE
Dr. James Kirkland is a professor of English at East Carolina University. For one of the largest departments on campus, with more than 80 faculty, this is not particularly noteworthy....
Arts and Sciences Archives
TALKING WAR HISTORY
Bookcases teeming with more than 1,000 books from floor to ceiling surround history professor Dr. Gerald Prokopowicz on three sides in his small office at East Carolina University. Tucked away...
DIGGING INTO RESEARCH
County Home Road. The name is sort of self-explanatory. Somewhere along this stretch of highway south of Greenville was a building or buildings where some people lived. But who were...
OPRAH’S READING LIST
“Paris, 7 A.M.” synopsis courtesy of Simon & Schuster In “Paris, 7 A.M.,” Wieland explores June 1937 — the only year Bishop, a meticulous keeper of journals, did not fully...
LEAVING THEIR MARKS
East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences soon will launch the 13th season of its signature Voyages of Discovery Series. This year’s lineup spans a broad range...
Student: Joshua Spears
Joshua Spears is an Honors College student at East Carolina University who wants to get others connected and see them succeed. Spears, a rising senior from Emerald Isle, originally started...
Wayne Johns receives top prize in record-breaking NCLR poetry contest
The North Carolina Literary Review, an East Carolina University publication, received a record number of entries for its 2019 James Applewhite Poetry Prize, which has been awarded to Wayne Johns....
PACIFIC TRAVELER
Most oceanographers would rather find themselves studying sardines instead of being packed like one, but East Carolina University assistant professor Rebecca Asch squeezed into the research vessel Kilo Moana last...
THE LOST TAVERN
College students discovering a drinking establishment isn’t anything new. But this one isn’t your everyday bar. Last year at the ruins of Brunswick Town, North Carolina — a once-thriving colonial...
LIFE, LIBERTY AND HAPPINESS
A U.S. citizen’s unalienable right to pursue happiness proves true in the results of a new nationwide study by East Carolina University’s Center for Survey Research. Researchers looked at several...