ECU student selected for writing award
A short story by East Carolina University creative writing student Tim Bachanan, titled “Mezuzah,” was selected by Daniel Chacón as a winner in the Association of Writers & Writing Programs'...
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Columbia University scholar to discuss Shakespeare in America
Columbia University scholar Dr. James S. Shapiro will present “Shakespeare in America” at 7 p.m. March 27 in Wright Auditorium at ECU. A question and answer session will follow. Shapiro,...
ECU symposium to address biodiversity, climate change
The East Carolina University Center for Biodiversity will host a two-day symposium on the effect of climate change on biodiversity in the southeastern U.S. March 14-15 in Room 307, Science...
Avenarius to speak present ‘local voices’
East Carolina University anthropology professor Christine Avenarius will present "In their own words: Local voices on the Outer Banks economy and the environment," at 6 p.m. March 6 at the...
Civil rights activist to speak at ECU
Julian Bond, civil rights activist and professor emeritus of the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia, will deliver the Lawrence F. Brewster Lecture in History at East...
ECU professor’s book on state politics draws interest
A new book on North Carolina politics by East Carolina University political science professor Dr. Thomas Eamon has triggered significant media interest. Eamon will speak this week on WUNC’s “The...
ECU researcher’s wedding held in SeaWorld’s penguin habitat
A SeaWorld wedding between East Carolina University’s director of conservation Susanne Grieve and Jeff Rawson, who met during a 2012 trip to Antarctica, is featured on the Orlando Sentinel and...
Albright book chronicles B-1 Band history
ECU English professor Alex Albright was interviewed this month on the WUNC N.C. Public Radio program, “The State of Things,” about his recent book titled “The Forgotten First: B-1 and...
ECU alumni participate in discovery of lost Japanese submarine in Hawaii
By Lacey Gray Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Researchers in Hawaii, including two East Carolina University alumni, have found a large WWII-era Japanese submarine in 2,300 feet of...
ECU professor emeritus receives lifetime achievement award
ECU professor emeritus Dr. William N. Still, founder and former director of the ECU Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology program, was honored with a Knox Naval History Lifetime Achievement Award...