Research Archives

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’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...

Feb 18, 2020

ECU professor’s research on ice may help improve aircraft safety

On a frigid November day in 2004, Chinese Eastern Airlines Flight 5210 dropped out of the sky shortly after takeoff from the Baotou Eriban Airport, exploding on the ground and...

Feb 14, 2020
  • Lacey L. Gray

COMING FULL CIRCLE

Married East Carolina University professors never expected a rogue storm to shipwreck their boat along the coast of North Carolina 35 years ago, but that is exactly what happened and...

Feb 12, 2020
  • Ken Buday

PITCH PERFECT

As a baseball pitcher, Evan Voliva has simple goals. “I just want to throw hard, throw well and strike out a lot of guys,” he said. As a fan of...

Feb 06, 2020
  • Jules Norwood

A WAY FORWARD

Interim Chancellor Ron Mitchelson presented his first State of the University address to the East Carolina University community Wednesday in Wright Auditorium, highlighting successes and challenges, and thanking faculty and...

Feb 04, 2020
  • Matt Smith

HOME SWEET HOME

East Carolina University invites the public to one of Greenville’s iconic locations during an open house event on Thursday, Feb. 6, from 4:30-6 p.m. at 209 E. Fifth Street in...

Feb 03, 2020

Brody scientist’s data-driven approach to explaining gender bias gets national attention

Often discussed, but less frequently understood, gender bias is being assessed in a new way thanks to a microbiologist from ECU’s Brody School of Medicine. Working to help scientists across...