Research Archives

Mar 05, 2020
  • ECU News Services

Looking to lose weight? New ECU study suggests that intensive behavioral therapy can help.

A new study from ECU’s College of Allied Health Sciences and Brody School of Medicine recently highlighted by CNN demonstrated that intensive behavioral therapy provided by registered dietitians can help...

Mar 04, 2020
  • Doug Boyd

BARRIERS TO PARTICIPATION

Sports Illustrated has called Greenville a “Sportstown USA,” and while opportunities abound for youth and adults to play and learn, those doors aren’t equally open to everyone. That’s what East...

Feb 27, 2020
  • Ken Buday

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...

Feb 26, 2020
  • Matt Smith

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...

Feb 26, 2020
  • Matt Smith

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...

Feb 26, 2020
  • Matt Smith

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...

Feb 26, 2020
  • Matt Smith

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...

Feb 25, 2020
  • ECU News Services

ECU’s College of Engineering and Technology highlights research

The East Carolina University College of Engineering and Technology recognized student and faculty research during its 2020 Research Day Monday in the ballroom of the Main Campus Student Center. Students...

Feb 25, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

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...

Feb 24, 2020
  • Rob Spahr

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...