Student: Cooper Hilbert
East Carolina University senior Cooper Hilbert has spent his college career exploring how cities work and how they can work better. What began as simple curiosity grew into a passion...
Sustainability Archives
Digital humanities projects foster student leadership
Seeing historic locations with one’s own eyes, hearing sounds of a bustling city, feeling cobblestone walkways underfoot, and smelling and tasting delicacies from a foreign culture are experiences that last...
ECU helps manufacturers prevent pollution through new grant
East Carolina University’s Center for Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering (CSE3) received validation of its work to prevent pollution through a new $652,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency. The...
ECU’s Harriot College names Dr. Nathan Richards to distinguished professorship
East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences has named Dr. Nathan Richards, professor in the Department of History and the Program in Maritime Studies, to the prestigious...
New Department of Earth, Environment and Planning prioritizes environment, communities
This spring, East Carolina University Chancellor Philip Rogers officially approved a request to merge two departments within the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences. The Department of Geography, Planning...
ECU faculty lead STEM students in immersive environmental science research
East Carolina University geological sciences faculty members led nine undergraduate students — mainly STEM majors from colleges and universities across the United States — through an immersive, educational summer research...
ECU students practice land-based skills during maritime field school
East Carolina University’s summer maritime studies field school may be a student’s first archaeological or maritime archaeological field work. Therefore, Dr. Nathan Richards, professor in the Department of History and...
ECU maritime studies field school students explore unique ship inside a ship
This summer, East Carolina University graduate students got their feet wet and explored something quite uncommon at one of two shipwreck sites during their field school in maritime history and...
Archaeologists discover at-risk shipwrecks at Brunswick Town, Fort Anderson
A team of archaeologists with East Carolina University’s Program in Maritime Studies recently discovered multiple shipwrecks and colonial waterfront features at Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson State Historic Site (BTFA) in Brunswick...
Workshop brings sustainability into focus for faculty
Green curriculum, green campus, green city. That was the name of a faculty workshop hosted this month by East Carolina University’s sustainability office, and by all accounts the experience lived...