Professor to appear on UNC-TV’s Exploring North Carolina
East Carolina University professor Dr. Stan Riggs will appear in two episodes of the UNC-TV series, “Exploring North Carolina,” in January. Hosted by Tom Earnhardt, the show focuses on the...
Maritime/Coastal Archives
White to step aside as Coastal Studies Institute director
Dr. Nancy White, founding executive director of the University of North Carolina Coastal Studies Institute, has announced that she will step aside from that role, effective June 30, 2017. White...
White to step aside as Coastal Studies Institute director
Dr. Nancy White, founding executive director of the University of North Carolina Coastal Studies Institute, has announced that she will step aside from that role, effective June 30, 2017. White...
ECU produces most archaeology, maritime professionals
For the third consecutive year, East Carolina University has produced the highest number of new registrants to the Register of Professional Archaeologists. ECU is one of only a few graduate...
ECU professor to serve as Steffy Lecturer
ECU maritime studies professor Dr. David J. Stewart was asked by the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) to serve as the 2015-16 J. Richard Steffy Lecturer. The lecture was established...
ECU researcher’s wedding held in SeaWorld’s penguin habitat
A SeaWorld wedding between East Carolina University’s director of conservation Susanne Grieve and Jeff Rawson, who met during a 2012 trip to Antarctica, is featured on the Orlando Sentinel and...
ECU professor emeritus receives lifetime achievement award
ECU professor emeritus Dr. William N. Still, founder and former director of the ECU Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology program, was honored with a Knox Naval History Lifetime Achievement Award...
ECU graduate students receive national awards for work on coastal issues
Two East Carolina University students in coastal resources management received 2012 Walter B. Jones Memorial Awards for Coastal and Ocean Resource Management. Michelle Covi and Jennifer Cudney-Burch were selected to...
ECU researchers explore history near Columbia
East Carolina University researchers are collaborating this fall with the UNC Coastal Studies Institute and the citizens of Columbia, N.C. to explore the region’s history and close connection with...
Protecting Artifacts
ECU Historians and conservators held a public viewing of a rare rubber map of WWII-era Iwa Jima Feb. 19....