Arts and Sciences Archives

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...

Feb 21, 2018
  • ECU News Services

'North Carolina in the Great War' now on exhibit in Joyner Library

Joyner Library is now displaying “North Carolina in the Great War,” a traveling exhibition on loan from the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. The exhibition will be...

Feb 16, 2018
  • ECU News Services

Global Living-Learning Community broadens students' cultural perspectives

Fall 2017 marked the official beginning of East Carolina University’s Global Living-Learning Community, consisting of a tight-knit group of seven first-year students from diverse backgrounds who live in the same...

Dr. Rebecca Asch, assistant professor of biology at ECU, teaches a class in the Howell Building.
Feb 15, 2018
  • Matt Smith

RESEARCH RECOGNIZED

An East Carolina University assistant professor of biology received a prestigious fellowship Thursday, Feb. 15, as she was recognized as one of 126 recipients of the 2018 Sloan Research Fellowships....

Feb 12, 2018
  • ECU News Services

ECU hosts Veterans Writing Workshop

East Carolina University will help veterans develop the confidence to tell their stories during the Veterans Writing Workshop Feb. 16-17. Dr. Robert Siegel, associate professor of English and organizer of...

Retired Lt. Gen. Russel L. Honoré met with students Thursday afternoon , Feb. 8, prior to his evening Voyages of Discovery presentation on “Resilient Leadership.”
Feb 09, 2018
  • Lacey L. Gray

RESILIENT LEADERSHIP

Retired Lt. Gen. Russel L. Honoré, commander of Joint Task Force Katrina and Global Preparedness Authority, spoke to an audience of students, faculty and the public at East Carolina University’s...