Arts and Sciences Archives

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...

May 07, 2019
  • Jules Norwood

‘KEY LEADERSHIP’

Dr. Allison Danell, associate professor of chemistry, has been appointed interim dean of East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences (THCAS) effective July 1, pending approval by...

English major and great books minor Glenesha Berryman is one of 32 winners of a spring University Creative Activity award.
May 03, 2019
  • Kristin Zachary

Graduate video profile: Glenesha Berryman

Words have power, and East Carolina University senior Glenesha Berryman, an English major with a minor in great books, is working to use them for good. Berryman, an EC Scholar and...

English major Shainah Andrews took a wide variety of classes while at ECU. One class even inspired her to spend a semester abroad in Ghana.
May 02, 2019
  • Erin Ward

Graduate profile: Shainah Andrews

As a first-generation college student who hadn’t traveled outside the U.S. before, Shainah Andrews never thought she’d have the opportunity to study abroad – twice. But during her time at...

East Carolina University professor Xin Hu shares his cell imaging research with attendees at the biomaterials research cluster launch event held at Research and Creative Achievement Week. The new cluster focuses on engineered materials that can be used for joint replacements, heart valves, surgical sutures or ligament replacements, among others.
Apr 18, 2019
  • Matt Smith

NEW RESEARCH CLUSTER

Researchers are putting a focus on biomaterials with the launch of East Carolina University’s newest research cluster. On April 5, the university launched its biomaterials research cluster as part of...

Apr 12, 2019
  • ECU News Services

Patrick E. Horn receives first John Ehle Prize

The North Carolina Literary Review (NCLR) editorial staff has awarded the first John Ehle Prize to Patrick E. Horn for his essay on 19th-century writers George Moses Horton and Caroline...

Voyages of Discovery presenter Dr. Lisa Randall meets with students prior to her evening presentation on Thursday.
Apr 08, 2019
  • Lacey L. Gray

DARK MATTER & DINOSAURS

Dr. Lisa Randall, Harvard University physicist, was welcomed to East Carolina University and the Greenville community on April 4 as the final presenter in the 2018-2019 Voyages of Discovery Series....