Sustainability Archives

Feb 27, 2023
  • Jules Norwood

Bike Repair Clinic offers tuneups, inspections

In partnership with East Carolina University Parking and Transportation, ECU Sustainability has resumed operation of its weekly Bike Repair Clinic, offered Wednesdays from 2-6 p.m. outside the Main Campus Student...

Nov 11, 2022
  • Ken Buday

Engineering student is lone undergraduate to receive national AWRA scholarship

East Carolina University engineering student Ariel Lineberger has received the 2022 American Water Resources Association (AWRA) Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Scholarship. The association awarded just three of the scholarships in...

East Carolina University researchers are at the forefront of efforts to better understand the interactions between coastal ecosystems, communities and storm impacts.
Nov 03, 2022
  • Jules Norwood

COASTAL TEAMWORK

Along the coast of North Carolina and around the world, there is a delicate and dynamic balance between coastal ecosystems and communities. East Carolina University researchers are at the forefront...

Sep 21, 2022
  • Ken Buday

Solar demonstration, seminar part of ECU’s Pollution Prevention Week

East Carolina University is marking Pollution Prevention Week with a number of activities on campus. “This is a national week, and we are one of many universities celebrating,” said Dr....

Mason Muskett, an ECU 2022 graduate, sorts through clothes at My Sister’s Closet. The boutique uses its proceeds to support Greenville's Center for Family Violence Prevention.
Aug 24, 2022
  • Ronnie Woodward

SISTERS OF SUPPORT

Dr. Runying Chen hasn’t bought brand-new clothing in a couple of years. She does love to shop, however, but prefers to do it at the upscale resale boutique My Sister’s...

Aug 08, 2022
  • Lacey L. Gray

TRANSFORMATIONAL VOICES

East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences will launch the 16th season of its Voyages of Discovery Series this fall, featuring three experts who will address the topics of...

Chad Carwein, university sustainability manager, supervises while Julia Florack works with a bee hive frame.
Apr 22, 2022
  • Jules Norwood

DIG IT

East Carolina University and its student environmental organizations celebrated Earth Day with a full week of events, kicking off with a honey extraction demonstration and wrapping up with a farm...

Apr 11, 2022
  • Ronnie Woodward

Transition to updated accessible icon begins on main campus

The Hildreth family’s roots were in Reading, Mass., for decades until 2012, when a move to New Bern made eastern North Carolina home. A significant part of that process was...

Mar 30, 2022
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU’s Voyages of Discovery Series features distinguished teaching professor of environmental biology

East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences wraps up the 15th season of its signature Voyages of Discovery Series at 7 p.m. April 14 with a free,...

Mar 21, 2022
  • Ken Buday

ECU team publishes research on use of recycled masks in asphalt

While some may see trash, others see opportunity. “You want to fully utilize any waste. It’s not waste. It can be a resource,” said Dr. George Wang, chair of East...