Research Archives

Feb 15, 2018

ECU internship opportunity prepares students for real world

East Carolina University graduate Rachel Isaac knew she had a passion. The Claremont native loves children’s theatre. The energy, excitement and frenzy that come from directing and producing a play...

Feb 14, 2018

ECU faculty introduced to research cluster

Fourteen East Carolina University faculty members were introduced to the Health Behavior pan-university research cluster Feb.8, offering opportunities for research collaborations to address health behaviors in the region. In the...

A partnership between ECU and analytics leader SAS will help boost the university’s work to improve economic, health and education conditions in rural North Carolina and beyond. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Feb 13, 2018
  • ECU News Services

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...

Feb 13, 2018

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...

Brody School of Medicine (Photo by Gretchen Baugh)
Feb 02, 2018
  • Erin Ward

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...

Brody School of Medicine (Photo by Gretchen Baugh)
Feb 01, 2018
  • ECU News Services

‘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...

Students worked in shallow water to document and map the Pappy’s Lane shipwreck.
Jan 31, 2018
  • Jules Norwood

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...

ECU Honors College student Maggie Marshall demonstrates how virtual reality will be used in a study on balance control and concussion.
Jan 30, 2018
  • Crystal Baity

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...

Jan 30, 2018

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...

ECU economist Dr. Greg Howard is studying the impact of environmental policy on the agricultural industry.
Jan 25, 2018
  • Matt Smith

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...