Lacey L. Gray Archives

An East Carolina University student is reading from a notebook she is holding, while other students sit listening at round discussion tables in the background.
Jan 13, 2026
  • Lacey L. Gray

Novel classrooms increase student engagement

Breaking from traditional teaching styles, East Carolina University students are participating in a new project-based learning classroom structure, actively engaging in meaningful projects and discussions that contribute to an increased...

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Dec 13, 2025
  • Lacey L. Gray

Jesse Rodriguez – University Studies

Helping people is a challenging and rewarding path that East Carolina University senior Jesse Rodriguez has traveled for many years. Originally from Hammondsport, New York, Rodriguez is a nontraditional student...

Dec 08, 2025
  • Lacey L. Gray

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...

Oct 24, 2025
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU awarded $1.65 million to continue researching gambling behavior, risk

East Carolina University’s Gambling Research Policy Initiative (GRPI) has received an extension of a half-million-dollar grant that ended in August of this year. The new $1.65 million funding from the...

Oct 20, 2025
  • Lacey L. Gray

Harriot College honors faculty excellence through professorships

This fall, East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences appointed three faculty members to prestigious professorships that represent a breadth of knowledge and excellence in teaching and...

An East Carolina University faculty member stands holding a test tube and with other tubes on a rack in front of him and metal shelves with more lab equipment behind him as he smiles at the camera.
Oct 14, 2025
  • Lacey L. Gray
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Biologist’s genuine love of research to benefit others

East Carolina University shines when it comes to world-class, award-winning faculty and research, as demonstrated by Dr. Fidisoa “Fidy” Rasambainarivo, a Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences assistant professor...

Oct 08, 2025
  • Lacey L. Gray

Harriot College announces Whichard Distinguished Professor in the Humanities

Dr. Amy E. Wright of Saint Louis University will serve as the David Julian and Virginia Suther Whichard Distinguished Professor in the Humanities in East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College...

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Sep 18, 2025
  • Lacey L. Gray

Thriving in times of radical change: Reconnecting to humanity

East Carolina University welcomed Sam Rad (Samantha Radocchia), an anthropologist, entrepreneur and futurist focused on human connection in the era of artificial intelligence, to campus on Sept. 11 for the first of two events...

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Sep 15, 2025
  • Lacey L. Gray

Grant supports community mental health services, student training

East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences and Brody School of Medicine are joint recipients of a $1.3 million grant to fund critical mental and behavioral health...

Sep 09, 2025
  • Lacey L. Gray

Harriot College thanks donors, honors scholarship recipients at 10th annual celebration

East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences recognized students and thanked its generous donors at the college’s 10th annual scholarship celebration on Sept. 5 in the Main...