Arts and Sciences Archives

Jun 21, 2019
  • ECU News Services

Research shows fewer males born in U.S. during periods of stress

It is a common understanding in scientific research that the male species, in general, are frailer and experience higher rates of mortality across their lifespans than females. Now, there is...

Jun 12, 2019
  • Matt Smith

CAREER ACHIEVEMENT

An East Carolina University assistant professor turned in her bass guitar for a soil probe to rock out with microbes. The unconventional move from rocker to scientist paid off for...

Jun 11, 2019
  • ECU News Services

Holsaert named winner of 2019 Albright Nonfiction Prize

Faith S. Holsaert has been named the winner of the North Carolina Literary Review’s 2019 Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize for “Matrilineal.” Selected from a record number of submissions this year,...

Jun 03, 2019
  • Grady Dillon

Student: Morgan Agner

Helping others is one of many passions for Morgan Agner. Agner, a rising junior, is pursuing a degree in chemistry as well as a minor in Hispanic studies. She is...

May 20, 2019
  • Lacey L. Gray

SERVING OUR COUNTRY

This May, three East Carolina University health psychology doctoral students were commissioned into the U.S. Air Force, bringing the total to four students commissioned from one program in the past...

May 17, 2019
  • Matt Smith

INTERNATIONAL CONNECTION

An East Carolina University associate professor will travel to Zambia next year to assist in water quality testing of the African nation’s groundwater system. Alex Manda, a hydrogeologist in the...

May 15, 2019
  • Matt Smith

TESTING FOR MONOGAMY?

An East Carolina University faculty member is part of an international research team that may one day lead humans to use biology – not body chemistry – to find their...

May 13, 2019
  • ECU News Services

Harriot College announces 2019 Dean’s Early Career Award recipient

East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences has named Dr. Joi Walker, assistant professor of chemistry, as the recipient of the 2019 Dean’s Early Career Award. The...

East Carolina University biology professor Chris Balakrishnan has been appointed as a temporary program director with the National Science Foundation’s Evolutionary Processes Cluster. The position allows Balakrishnan to make recommendations about which NSF research proposals to fund.
May 08, 2019
  • Matt Smith

NATIONAL APPOINTMENT

An East Carolina University associate professor will have the chance to shape science funding at the national level during the next two years. Chris Balakrishnan, a faculty member in the...

May 08, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU associate professor receives inaugural Mellon/ACLS Scholars & Society Fellowship

Dr. Helena Feder, director of East Carolina University’s Great Books Program and associate professor of literature and environment, is one of the inaugural recipients of the Mellon/American Council of Learned...