Faculty/Staff Archives

May 09, 2022
  • Lacey L. Gray

Three ECU faculty receive 2022 Harriot College Dean’s Early Career Award

The dean of East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences has named three faculty members as recipients of the prestigious 2022 Dean’s Early Career Award. Typically awarded...

Ravian Jordan, left, and Kayin Fails turn their tassels at commencement.
May 06, 2022
  • ECU News Services

ALWAYS PIRATES

East Carolina University celebrated the Class of 2022 in Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium in its first full-scale spring commencement ceremony since 2019. The ceremony recognized the accomplishments of more than 4,600 spring...

May 04, 2022
  • Jules Norwood

UNC System program develops leadership skills among faculty, staff

During the past year, the University of North Carolina System has conducted an Executive Leadership Institute with a select group of faculty and staff members from the state’s public institutions....

May 03, 2022
  • Spaine Stephens

DIVERSE CLINICAL TRIALS

The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University has experienced recent success in recruiting a diverse group of patients to participate in clinical trials for new medications and treatments....

ECU School of Dental Medicine clinical assistant professor and division director Nikki Tucker poses outside.
May 02, 2022
  • Ken Buday

Faculty: Dr. Nikki Tucker

Dr. Nikki Tucker grew up in Ayden, a small town near the borders of Craven, Lenoir and Pitt counties. Home to the annual Collard Festival, it’s the very definition of...

ECU Chancellor Philip Rogers speaks during the University Teaching Awards ceremony in Harvey Hall.
Apr 25, 2022
  • Ken Buday

TEACHING EXCELLENCE

East Carolina University celebrated its faculty during the 2022 University Teaching Awards ceremony Thursday night at the Murphy Center. Chancellor Philip Rogers presided over the night’s festivities, crediting all ECU...

Chad Carwein, university sustainability manager, supervises while Julia Florack works with a bee hive frame.
Apr 22, 2022
  • Jules Norwood

DIG IT

East Carolina University and its student environmental organizations celebrated Earth Day with a full week of events, kicking off with a honey extraction demonstration and wrapping up with a farm...

Dr. Meghan Berger conducts a brainspotting exercise with a mock patient in the Neurocognition Science Laboratory in the Rivers Building.
Apr 21, 2022
  • Kristen Martin

MIND-BODY CONNECTION

As counselor education student Debby Harris filled out career assessments and completed a brainspotting session, sensors on her head measured blood flow in her brain and neural activity. “Brainspotting is...

Dr. Megan Perry talks about a coffin, recovered from the Rhem family ancestral tomb in New Bern’s Cedar Grove cemetery, with family member Michael Miller, right, and anthropology graduate students Bridget Cone and Ceara Nicholson.
Apr 11, 2022
  • Lacey L. Gray

ANCESTRAL TOMB RESEARCH

East Carolina University faculty and graduate students in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Anthropology are acquiring real-world skills through a project involving an ancestral tomb more than...

Apr 07, 2022
  • Rob Spahr

ECU researcher lands licensing agreement for patent to treat Restless Legs Syndrome

Dr. Stefan Clemens, a professor in the Brody School of Medicine’s Department of Physiology, credits his discovery of a potential treatment for restless legs syndrome (RLS) to “a bit of...