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...
Arts and Sciences Archives
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...