Arts and Sciences Archives

Apr 13, 2018
  • ECU News Services

Endowment to bring more renowned speakers to ECU

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Colson Whitehead, underwater explorer Jean-Michael Cousteau, primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson have all come to East Carolina University to share their unique perspectives,...

Apr 12, 2018
  • ECU News Services

Riverbank erosion in Bangladesh

In North Carolina, coastal communities are faced with environmental change as water interacts with the land. Sea level rise and storm surges are the primary threats, but an understudied issue...

Apr 06, 2018
  • ECU News Services

Student researchers awarded Joyner Library’s Rhem/Schwarzmann Prize

Three East Carolina University students from the Department of History in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences have been awarded Joyner Library’s ninth annual Rhem/Schwarzmann Prize for student...

Photography by Rhett Butler
Mar 29, 2018
  • Bre Lewis

Student: Dan Hemme

Dan Hemme is a first-year graduate student in public administration with an emphasis in management at East Carolina University. He is also working toward his graduate certificate in development and...

Mar 28, 2018
  • ECU News Services

Symposium builds connections

Nearly 80 East Carolina University faculty members filled Harvey Hall at the Murphy Center on Tuesday for the inaugural Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Engagement Symposium. The symposium, hosted by ECU’s Economic...

Mar 23, 2018
  • ECU News Services

'Death and Diversity in Civil War Medicine' explains the disparity of mortality

The American Civil War occurred during a time when medicine was just beginning to make great strides. Contemporary doctors did not fully understand the origin of disease, the importance of hygiene,...

Mar 20, 2018
  • ECU News Services

New USDA report provides trend data analysis about U.S. biobased economy

The United States Department of Agriculture today released its first-of-its-kind report that documents indicators of the United States’ biobased economy. The biobased economy refers to all economic activity derived from...

Mar 16, 2018
  • ECU News Services

National Humanities Medal winner to visit ECU

National Humanities Medal winner Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of “Plato at the Googleplex” and “The Mind-Body Problem,” will discuss “The Curious Relationship between the Sciences and the Humanities” during an April...

The Capitol Steps, political satire troupe, will entertain with the “Lighter Side of Politics.”
Mar 15, 2018
  • Lacey L. Gray

SOMETHING TO LAUGH ABOUT

In this day and age, political discussions may be overwhelming or disheartening at best, but when the political satire troupe the Capitol Steps comes to East Carolina University in April,...

Feb 27, 2018
  • ECU News Services

Could a poll boost ECU's national reputation?

The next presidential election may be two years away, but East Carolina University’s Center for Survey Research has its focus set on Nov. 3, 2020. By then, Director Peter Francia...