Faculty/Staff Archives

Oct 07, 2022
  • Crystal Baity

‘We Say Gay’ art exhibit on display through Oct. 31

A new student art exhibit, “We Say Gay,” will be featured at East Carolina University during LGBT History Month through Oct. 31. “From flags to quilts to queer symbology utilized...

Oct 06, 2022
  • Spaine Stephens

Sickle cell disease conference brings patients, providers together to learn, advocate

The inaugural Tate Holbrook Annual Sickle Cell Disease Update brought patients, providers and experts together Sept. 30 at the East Carolina Heart Institute to share information on history, treatments, impact...

Dr. Kelsey Fisher-Wellman, center, works with students during a lab at the East Carolina Heart Institute. Fisher-Wellman teaches a unique course where instead of final grades, students strive for journal publication.
Oct 06, 2022
  • Benjamin Abel

STUDENT AUTHORSHIP

When Dr. Kelsey Fisher-Wellman began teaching students in his biochemistry lab at the East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine he knew two things — he needed to be productive...

The U.S. Coast Guard assisted Dr. Dan Dickerson’s Summer Ventures class in deploying buoys that would monitor and map ocean currents.
Oct 05, 2022
  • Kristen Martin

SUMMER VENTURES

Students who participated in this year’s Summer Ventures program were able to contribute to climate change research on ocean currents. East Carolina University College of Education Associate Dean Dr. Dan...

Oct 04, 2022
  • Ken Buday

Program to facilitate ECU, European research collaborations

East Carolina University’s College of Engineering and Technology will soon be collaborating with the European Union on the Next Generation Internet (NGI) Enrichers Program. The program will bring European “internet...

Dr. Archana Hegde talks to statewide evaluators and mentors during a 15-year celebration of Early Educators Support at the ECU Main Campus Student Center.
Oct 03, 2022
  • Ronnie Woodward

MENTORS STRENGTHEN CLASSROOMS

East Carolina University’s implementation of a statewide mentorship program has benefited prekindergarten teachers and their students in nonpublic school settings for nearly eight years. The North Carolina Department of Public...

Oct 02, 2022
  • Ken Buday

Faculty: Tommi Galaska

The sound of music echoes from a nearby studio where Tommi Galaska sits cross-legged on a chair in a cramped office. “It used to be a closet,” she said. A...

Dr. Jean-Luc Scemama, associate professor of biology; Dr. Heather Vance-Chalcraft, assistant professor of biology; and Dr. Jason Yao, professor of engineering are part of an East Carolina University team receiving $1 million of a multi-university grant to support students from underrepresented backgrounds in science, technology, engineering and math.
Sep 28, 2022
  • Lacey L. Gray

RECRUITING STUDENTS TO STEM

East Carolina University is one of five North Carolina universities collaborating on a $3.4 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to better recruit and support students from underrepresented...

Sep 27, 2022
  • Lacey L. Gray

Harriot College announces Whichard Distinguished Professor in the Humanities

East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences has announced that Dr. Aleia M. Brown is the college’s David Julian and Virginia Suther Whichard Distinguished Professor in the...

Debris is cleaned up on campus following Hurricane Florence in 2018. An ECU professor is part of a team of researchers that received a $16 million National Science Foundation grant to address the equity, economic prosperity and resiliency of communities affected by hurricanes.
Sep 27, 2022
  • Kim Tilghman

BUILDING DISASTER RESILIENCE

An East Carolina University professor is part of a team of researchers that has received a National Science Foundation Coastlines and People grant totaling more than $16 million to study...