Research Archives

Oct 10, 2022
  • Ken Buday

EPA grants to help ECU support students, businesses

The East Carolina University Center for Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering has received three grants from the Environmental Protection Agency totaling more than $740,000. The center, which is part of...

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...

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...

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...

Recently published research by Dr. Allison Crowe and Dr. Heidi Bonner highlights the importance of mental health resources for law enforcement officers.
Sep 19, 2022
  • Kristen Martin

SUPPORTING FIRST RESPONDERS

An interdisciplinary collaboration between two East Carolina University faculty researchers is bringing new light to the mental health of law enforcement officers. Dr. Allison Crowe, a professor of counselor education,...

Sep 16, 2022
  • Doug Boyd

ECU graduate wants to solve the mysteries of migraine headaches

It might start with an aura — a scintillating scotoma of zigzag lines, opaque circles, rings of colors. You might turn or blink, but it just gets worse. Then the...

Sep 15, 2022
  • Kim Tilghman

Continuing students find education, fellowship with ECU’s Lifelong Learning Program

A new semester on campus sees bustling streets and sidewalks filled with Pirates hustling to keep intense schedules of classes, extracurricular activities, social gatherings, sporting events, part-time jobs, and other...