INNOVATIVE SOFTWARE
East Carolina University and analytics leader SAS will join forces to help rural areas overcome economic, educational and health disparities. Using analytics and data visualization, ECU and SAS will work...
Research Archives
East Carolina researcher collaborates on study of tobacco policies, alcohol sponsorship at LGBT pride festivals
An East Carolina University researcher has found people attending LGBT pride events across the United States have little protection against secondhand smoke. Dr. Joseph G.L. Lee, assistant professor of health...
FINDING A CURE
Every day, ECU’s Brody School of Medicine teems with professors and students pipetting cell cultures, analyzing tissues and eyeballing microscopes in the name of cutting-edge research. The Brody Brothers Foundation...
‘DEATHS OF DESPAIR’
Middle-aged whites in North Carolina are dying at an unprecedented rate, according to a new study by researchers at East Carolina University. The study – authored by ECU professor emeritus...
GROUNDED IN HISTORY
With little to go on but fragments of oral history and the scant clues they could glean from a decaying steel hull, a team of East Carolina University maritime studies...
CONCUSSION AND RECOVERY
Researchers in the Department of Kinesiology at East Carolina University are using virtual reality to study balance control in concussion and recovery. Concussions are most often caused by a blow...
ECU graduate student awarded fellowship for work with marine parasites
East Carolina graduate student Christopher Moore was selected as a 2018 North Carolina Sea Grant and N.C. Coastal Reserve Coastal Research Fellow, allowing the Winston-Salem native to fund his marine-life...
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
As eastern North Carolina farmers continue to adjust to commercial challenges in the face of an aging population and overall decline in farmland, one East Carolina University professor is using...
Laupus Library offers guidance on difficult conversations with patients, families
Health care providers are called upon every day to have difficult conversations with patients and family members. When patients become angry or upset, it’s important to know the most effective...
CONTAMINATION COLLABORATION
Some projects are too important – and cover too many disciplines – for one researcher to tackle alone. That’s why a study of the potential health impacts of GenX on...