TREATING RARE CANCER
By all accounts a typical teen, Luke Haithcock loved to high-five his friends. The school-hallway equivalent to a handshake, the greeting punctuated Haithcock’s days at South Central High School in...
Faculty/Staff Archives
BREADTH OF EXCELLENCE
East Carolina University ranked in the top 15% of schools picked as a Best Bang for the Buck in the Southeast in Washington Monthly’s 2020 College Guide released Aug. 31....
Phased Retirement Program availability announced
On behalf of Interim Chancellor Mitchelson, Interim Provost Grant Hayes announces the annual availability of the Phased Retirement Program for eligible tenured faculty members. Individual letters to eligible faculty members...
FUNDING COVID-19 RESEARCH
East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine will put the CARES Act funding it received from the North Carolina General Assembly toward developing better treatments, advancing vaccine research and minimizing...
Students create outdoor art installations
Before classes moved online this semester, East Carolina University students in Gabe Duggan’s art class hung colorful, spiderweb-like creations in front of Jenkins Fine Arts Center. Though temporary, the pieces...
Researcher studying if new ECU-created pesticide is safer for humans
A researcher in the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University has received a grant to study the human and environmental safety of NoPest, an ECU-created novel pesticide aimed...
FIELDING MARITIME HISTORY
Nine East Carolina University graduate students are investigating a shipwreck close to home this fall as part of an annual field school. The students in ECU’s Program in Maritime Studies,...
Study finds source of COVID-19 messaging impacts effectiveness
New research from a multi-institution team including an East Carolina University faculty member finds that messaging during the pandemic is more effective when attributed to a trusted health organization rather...
VIRTUAL BUS TOUR
Dr. Tom Irons, professor of pediatrics and associate vice chancellor for regional health services at ECU’s Brody School of Medicine, has provided medical students and residents a priceless oral history...
Sociology student publishes cross-collaborative research with pediatric faculty
Sarah Watson, an East Carolina University graduate student in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences (THCAS) Department of Sociology, is applying her studies to important cross-collaborative, clinical research....