Arts and Sciences Archives

Nov 30, 2012

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...

Oct 24, 2012

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...

Oct 24, 2012

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...

Oct 23, 2012

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...

Oct 15, 2012

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...

Oct 11, 2012

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...

Oct 08, 2012

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...

Oct 03, 2012

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...

Sep 24, 2012

Kruse named distinguished professor

East Carolina University professor Dr. Jamie Kruse was inducted as the 2012 Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor during the college’s annual faculty convocation Aug. 20. The...

Sep 20, 2012

Expert on evolutionary genomics to speak at ECU

Dr. Rasmus Nielsen, one of the world’s leading experts on evolutionary genomics and professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley, will lead a free, public seminar at...