Jules Norwood Archives

Dr. Richard Williams teaches students from his recreational therapy class to play wheelchair basketball in the student recreation center.
Apr 01, 2016
  • Jules Norwood

CONTAGIOUS ENTHUSIASM

Dr. Richard Williams, associate professor of recreational therapy, loves the subjects he teaches and wants his students to feel the same way. His enthusiasm and his impact on East Carolina...

Mar 21, 2016
  • Jules Norwood

HISTORY UNDER GROUND

Students in ECU's Department of Anthropology used ground-penetrating radar to search for objects under the grass of the Greenville Town Common. (Photos and video by Cliff Hollis) Using ground-penetrating radar...

Symposium attendees and visitors had an opportunity to handle non-venomous snakes like this black hognose snake, but not the rattlesnakes, copperheads and water moccasins. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Mar 14, 2016
  • Jules Norwood

SERPENT SPOTLIGHT

North Carolina ranks first in the country for venomous snakebites, so East Carolina University was the perfect setting for Venom Week V, a conference on venomous creatures and the medical...

Mar 11, 2016
  • Jules Norwood

ENERGIZED

A unique collaboration of academic experts and industry professionals in the field of renewable energy is gathering data and developing technologies that could play a key role in the future...

Elizabeth Ables, assistant professor of biology, has received an NIH grant to fund her lab's research into cell fate mechanisms. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Mar 04, 2016
  • Jules Norwood

FLY PAPER

Researchers believe stem cells may be a key to resolving birth defects and diseases such as cancer, and now a project in East Carolina University's Department of Biology is aimed...

Opal Tometi, executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration and co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, was the keynote speaker for Saturday’s N.C. Civility Summit. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Feb 29, 2016
  • Jules Norwood

NO MORE SILENCE

Opal Tometi, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement and executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, challenged East Carolina University students to make a difference during the...

Feb 22, 2016
  • Jules Norwood

CALL FOR CIVILITY

The N.C. Civility Summit, aimed at promoting understanding and positive change on East Carolina University’s campus and beyond, will feature keynote speaker Opal Tometi, executive director of the Black Alliance...

Feb 15, 2016
  • Jules Norwood

SOLE FOOD

Hundreds of pairs of shoes, each with a story to tell, filled the mall near the cupola on East Carolina University’s campus on Feb. 11. The S.H.O.E.S. Project, which stands...

Vashti Kitrell from the Pitt Co. Health Department discusses a display in the lobby of the ECHI with ECU's Xiaoming Zeng during the Mills Symposium. (Photos by Jay Clark)
Feb 08, 2016
  • Jules Norwood

TACKLING TEEN HEALTH

The issues and challenges surrounding teen health were the focus of the 12th annual Jean Mills Health Symposium, held Feb. 5 at the East Carolina Heart Institute at East Carolina...

Located near Windsor, Hope Plantation was the home of former N.C. Governor David Stone and is one of six eastern N.C. historic sites included in research aimed at increasing minority visitation. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Feb 04, 2016
  • Jules Norwood

REFLECTING HISTORY

One East Carolina University student’s research could help museums, plantations and Civil War sites in ongoing efforts to present a balanced view of history and to attract more minority visitors....