ECU hosts international affairs forum
East Carolina University will host the Foreign Policy Association’s Great Decisions Program beginning in January 2013. Now in its ninth year at ECU, the program will run for eight consecutive...
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Student scholarship highlighted in ECU German language program
East Carolina University junior Michael Veale of Charlotte was selected for an undergraduate scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), marking the fourth year in a row that ECU’s...
ECU professor named fellow of American Psychological Association
Dr. Heather Littleton, associate professor in the Department of Psychology at East Carolina University, was named a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. Fellow status is an honor bestowed upon...
ECU biology professor publishes on horizontal gene transfer
An article by ECU biology professor Jinling Huang, with co-authors, appeared in the latest issue of the online publication Nature Communications. According to a press release from the online...
U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey coming to ECU for reading
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey, the United States Poet Laureate, will visit East Carolina University Oct. 25 as part of the university’s Contemporary Writers Series. She is the author of...
ECU team assists in search for missing teen
A team of East Carolina University anthropologists are assisting in the search for a missing teenager from Scotland Neck. Anthropology professors Dr. Megan Perry and Dr. Charles Ewen, along with...
Ceremony to launch biotechnology initiative
A ribbon cutting ceremony will celebrate the launch of the Interdisciplinary Biotechnology Initiative at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 19 in the third floor lobby of the Science and Technology Building on...
Mark Smith-Soto Receives 2012 James Applewhite Poetry Prize
During the recent Eastern North Carolina Literary Homecoming, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Professor Mark Smith-Soto was announced as the winner of the 2012 James Applewhite Poetry competition for...
Grant enables research on depression, cardiovascular disease
East Carolina University psychology professor Dr. Matthew Whited received a 5-year grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to study connections between depression and cardiovascular disease. “People who...
ECU biology professor elected to lead international organization
East Carolina University biology professor John W. Stiller was elected to the role of incoming vice president and president elect of the Phycological Society of America. The election results were...