Research Archives

Sep 20, 2018
  • ECU News Services

Researcher focuses on military health

East Carolina University’s Angela Lamson recently spent a weekend at the U.S. Department of Defense’s premier scientific meeting, sharing her research with military leaders in the area of integrated health...

Holly Pittard, second-year Brody School of Medicine student, unloads water from an SUV at the Walter B. Jones Center in Pitt County. (ECU Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Sep 19, 2018
  • Jules Norwood
  • Rob Spahr

UNDAUNTED

Hurricane Florence made a sharp left turn as it made landfall in southeastern North Carolina, sparing Greenville from the worst of its fury. Now, Pirates are responding, banding together to...

ECU alumnus Todd Burdick of Garner unloads food he brought Tuesday, Sept. 18, for university relief efforts as ECU junior Davis Basden and Sharon Paynter of ECU’s Division of Research, Economic Development and Engagement assist. Burdick works for a commercial food broker. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Sep 18, 2018
  • Doug Boyd

AFTER THE STORM

East Carolina University has set up a recovery operations center for those affected by Hurricane Florence and created a website where individuals and businesses may request assistance and the ECU...

Sep 05, 2018
  • ECU News Services

Sylvan Heights Bird Park, ECU announce formal collaboration

Sylvan Heights Bird Park and East Carolina University officials have approved a formal collaboration to boost interdisciplinary research alliances and preserve endangered waterfowl. The collaboration allows both parties to support...

broken cigarette on a campus bench
Sep 04, 2018
  • Crystal Baity

TEENS AND TOBACCO

A study published today in JAMA Pediatrics by researchers at East Carolina University and Stanford University examined tobacco sales to minors over a five-year period at more than 13,000 pharmacies...

Aug 30, 2018
  • ECU News Services

LABOR AND LIFE

Data from the Life, Liberty, and Happiness survey conducted by East Carolina University’s Center for Survey Research has confirmed that employment plays a key role in Americans’ perceptions of personal...

Aug 23, 2018
  • ECU News Services

ECU taps executive director for Innovation and New Ventures

Mark Wdowik has been named the inaugural executive director for the newly created Office of Innovation and New Ventures at East Carolina University. Wdowik joins ECU after a national search...

Aug 23, 2018
  • ECU News Services

ECU taps executive director for Innovation and New Ventures

Mark Wdowik has been named the inaugural executive director for the newly created Office of Innovation and New Ventures at East Carolina University. Wdowik joins ECU after a national search...

Fadi Issa, assistant professor of neurobiology, examines a group of zebrafish in his lab.
Aug 06, 2018
  • Matt Smith

FISHY FINDINGS

An East Carolina University researcher is studying the effects of social behavior on nervous system function and development in a most unlikely place ­– a fish tank. Spearheaded by a...

Aug 06, 2018
  • ECU News Services

Undergraduates share research at event

Ten undergraduate researchers from across the country shared their research projects Aug. 3 at East Carolina University’s Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium, wrapping up the final week of a research-intensive program funded by...