Arts and Sciences Archives

Sep 12, 2019
  • ECU News Services

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
  • ECU News Services

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...

Aug 05, 2019
  • Grady Dillon

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...

Jul 26, 2019
  • ECU News Services

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....

Jul 16, 2019
  • Matt Smith

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...