Faculty: Dr. Oneil Harris
Dr. Oneil Harris, associate professor in the Department of Finance at East Carolina University, had one word to describe his youth growing up in Kingston, Jamaica — “interesting.” However, that...
Faculty/Staff Archives
SERVICE THROUGH RESEARCH
East Carolina University researchers will be recognized Monday, March 2, at the university’s fourth annual Research and Scholarship Awards. The awards honor ECU faculty with the Lifetime Research & Creative...
ADVOCATING FOR LITERACY
Many educators can point to certain moments in their life when they knew they were destined to join their field. There were plenty of those moments for East Carolina University...
WRITING HER STORY
On a Tuesday afternoon in a darkened conference room in East Carolina University’s Mamie Jenkins Building, nearly a dozen students gather for author Liza Wieland’s creative writing workshop. One of...
SOUNDS OF RESEARCH
The click-clack-tap of a keyboard’s plastic keys fills the room in East Carolina University’s Auditory Prosthesis Lab. While the average person takes a keyboard’s sound for granted, Ning Zhou, an...
FIGHTING OPIOID OVERDOSES
Researchers at East Carolina University found 3 out of 5 North Carolina retail pharmacies have naloxone in stock for opioid overdoses as part of a statewide standing order. But some...
RESEARCHING MUSCLE FUNCTION
East Carolina University researchers – in collaboration with researchers from Florida State University and the University of Hannover, Germany – discovered that a small region in the cardiac protein, troponin...
TRANSFORMATIONAL TRAVEL
Hundreds of people braved snowy weather Thursday night to hear expert Rick Steves’ talk about a lifetime of travel — about 120 days every year — with a 9-by-22-by-14-inch carry-on...
DREAMS COME TRUE
The final round of the 2019-20 Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge concluded Wednesday night with FishingLicense.us taking first place and a cash prize of $15,000. FishingLicense.us is the team of ECU biology...
MASTER EDUCATORS
A trio of physicians - Drs. Adam Kansagor, Susan Schmidt and Diane Semer - were recently named master educators by the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. The...