Arts and Sciences Archives

Sep 24, 2019

ECU to host a Southern Literary Celebration

East Carolina University soon will celebrate an evening of Southern literature hosted by The North Carolina Literary Review and the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Whichard Distinguished Visiting...

Sep 23, 2019

Harriot College celebrates students, thanks donors at scholarship luncheon

East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences continues to thank its generous donors for their help in supporting and celebrating student success. On Sept. 20, Dr. Allison...

Sep 19, 2019
  • Lacey L. Gray

TELLING AMERICA’S DIVERSE STORIES

Award-winning journalist, entrepreneur and philanthropist Soledad O’Brien visited East Carolina University on Sept. 18 as the premier lecturer in the 2019-20 Voyages of Discovery Series. Early in the day, O’Brien...

Sep 12, 2019

Author of first book on climate change coming to ECU

Bill McKibben, an environmentalist and best-selling author who has written extensively on the impact of global warming, will present East Carolina University’s 27th annual Distinguished Lecture on Religion and Culture....

Sep 09, 2019

Award-winning journalist, entrepreneur to visit ECU as Voyages premier lecturer

Soledad O’Brien, award-winning journalist and entrepreneur, will present “Diversity: On TV, Behind the Scenes and in our Lives,” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 18 in Wright Auditorium at East Carolina...

Sep 04, 2019
  • Lacey L. Gray

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....

Aug 29, 2019
  • Lacey L. Gray

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...

Aug 29, 2019
  • Doug Boyd
  • Kristen Martin

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...

Aug 27, 2019
  • Lacey L. Gray

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...

Aug 06, 2019
  • Lacey L. Gray

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...