Faculty/Staff Archives

Erin Roberts, left, uses her fingers to demonstrate eye movement desensitization and reprocessing with colleague Jennifer Matthews.
Sep 06, 2023
  • Ronnie Woodward

EMPOWERING ENC

Faculty members in East Carolina University’s College of Health and Human Performance are taking a multi-layered approach to trauma-informed education and implementation. This focus stems from a four-year grant of...

This year's Voyages of Discovery Series will feature an accomplished actor and an Olympic gymnast who will address the theme of inspiring hope and healing.
Aug 31, 2023
  • Lacey L. Gray

INSPIRING HOPE AND HEALING

East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Voyages of Discovery Series will feature an accomplished actor and an Olympic gymnast who will address the theme of inspiring...

Martina Van Etten, a STEM Summer Immersion Program students from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, spent the summer at East Carolina University studying sablefish.
Aug 30, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

RESEARCH IMMERSION

This summer, Martina Van Etten has learned about sablefish, a deep-water species native to the eastern Pacific Ocean, through an internship at East Carolina University. A junior biology major at...

East Carolina University Health Education and Promotion professor Dr. Jo Anne Balanay and Fayetteville State University student KiHyira Jones look at a wet bulb globe temperature heat stress monitor positioned in a parking lot outside the Belk Building. They studied heat stress factors this summer.
Aug 30, 2023
  • Ronnie Woodward

SUMMER SAFETY

KiHyira Jones arrived at East Carolina University from Fayetteville State University in early June completely unfamiliar with a heat stress monitor that measures wet bulb globe temperature index. In just...

Dr. Michael Brewer and Hannah Pankey examine data pertaining to spider venom protein sequences. Brewer is leading Pankey in the analysis as part of the GlaxoSmithKline Foundation funding for the ECU STEM Summer Immersion program.
Aug 30, 2023
  • Lacey L. Gray

NOT ALL SPIDERS

The ancestors of all spiders were venomous, but there are two groups of spiders today — one in the United States — that are no longer toxic. East Carolina University’s...

Provost Dr. Robin Coger, center, discusses research and graduate school with UNC Pembroke junior Martina Van Etten, left, and her mentor Dr. Kat Dale, ECU post doctoral research scholar.
Aug 30, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

BUILDING RESEARCH CONNECTIONS

Twelve students found their footing in research and scientific discovery and learned more about pathways to graduate studies at East Carolina University during the STEM Summer Immersion Program. The program,...

Benjamin Brisard, a second-year Ph.D. student in East Carolina University's Interdisciplinary Program in Biology, Biomedicine and Chemistry program with a concentration in biology, works on fertility research at the Life Sciences and Biotechnology Building.
Aug 30, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

FERTILITY RESEARCH

East Carolina University research scientists, two from the Brody School of Medicine and another from the Department of Biology in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences, received nearly $2...

Aug 24, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Brinkley-Lane Scholars program commences with donor honors

The new school year also marked the beginning of a new era in the East Carolina University Honors College as Dean Dr. Todd Fraley introduced the newest class of Brinkley-Lane...

Aug 23, 2023
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU’s Harriot College names Ewen to distinguished professorship

East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences has named Dr. Charles Ewen, professor of anthropology, to the college’s prestigious rank of distinguished professor. Ewen is the college’s...

A National Endowment for the Humanities grant provided 72 educators, including a pair of East Carolina University faculty members, the opportunity to spend a week in Saipan learning about conflict history outside of museum walls.
Aug 22, 2023
  • Kristen Martin

LESSONS FROM SAIPAN

After three years of delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, East Carolina University faculty returned to Saipan to host two week-long residential history and culture programs for K-12 educators. “Saipan’s...