WHY PEOPLE SMOKE
Two years ago, East Carolina University psychiatrist Vivek Anand documented adolescent use of and opinions on electronic cigarettes. Now, he’s pinpointing the mechanisms behind smoking behavior. Anand’s 2015 findings showed...
Jules Norwood Archives
STATINS IN FOCUS
Millions of people in the U.S. take statins, a class of drugs prescribed to lower cholesterol, reducing the risk of heart disease and other health problems. Now, researchers at East...
PAINT AND NUMBERS
How do you study a graph if you can’t see it? That’s the problem that faced East Carolina University students Lee Brame and Regan Simmer, his tutor at the Pirate...
MODEL SPECIES
A tiny worm – nematode, technically – commonly found in compost has become a common subject for basic science and health science research, and forms the basis for several projects...
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
East Carolina University Chancellor Cecil Staton outlined his plans and expectations for the coming year during Faculty Convocation at Wright Auditorium Friday, marking the official start of the 2017-2018 academic...
REPRODUCTIVE RESEARCH
Students in Dr. Christopher Geyer’s lab at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine are working to understand and explain the earliest stages of reproduction thanks to a five-year, $1.45...
TRACTOR BEAM
East Carolina University physics professor Dr. Yong-Qing Li and students in his lab have successfully pulled — not pushed — a particle for 10 meters, a distance 10 times greater...
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
As students, faculty, staff and visitors navigate East Carolina University's campus this summer, they are all but guaranteed to encounter construction crews working to keep buildings and infrastructure up to...
PRECIPITATION PATTERNS
Professors and students in East Carolina University’s Department of Geography, Planning and Environment are taking an in-depth look at weather patterns in the southeastern United States, thanks to a $450,000...
Fitting In
Jenna Price knows the transition to college to be a challenge. But she's part of a growing number of students who are getting off to a strong start by being...