Dr. Jamie DeWitt Archives

Mar 11, 2021
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda

EXPLORING PFAS

A professor at East Carolina University was recently selected to join the National Academies’ Standing Committee on Use of Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions (ESEHD). Dr. Jamie DeWitt of the...

Jul 14, 2020
  • ECU News Services

ECU researcher co-authors international plea for government, businesses to avoid harmful chemicals

WHAT: A group of 16 scientists from universities, the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the European Environment Agency, and non-governmental organizations recently published a peer-reviewed article in Environmental Science &...

Apr 20, 2020
  • Matt Smith

RESILIENT RESEARCH

Despite the challenges brought on by COVID-19, many East Carolina University researchers are finding ways to carry out their work, even if it means leaving their wet labs high and...

Mar 31, 2020
  • ECU News Services

LEANING IN

As East Carolina University students switched from in-person to distance education-only classes last week, hundreds of faculty and staff worked from home. Face-to-face lectures or meetings were replaced by virtual...

Dec 19, 2019
  • ECU News Services

2019: THE HIGHLIGHTS

There is much to be proud of in Pirate Nation. At East Carolina, we're leading and building. Our faculty and staff are discovering and inspiring. Our students and alumni are...

Nov 15, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU researcher opens her lab to students from Chowan University

A group of environmental science students from Chowan University recently spent an afternoon in an East Carolina University lab, learning from a researcher who, within the past year, has been...

Aug 29, 2019
  • Doug Boyd
  • Kristen Martin

DIGGING INTO RESEARCH

County Home Road. The name is sort of self-explanatory. Somewhere along this stretch of highway south of Greenville was a building or buildings where some people lived. But who were...

May 14, 2019
  • Rob Spahr

CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY

A researcher at ECU’s Brody School of Medicine testified before a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee Wednesday, May 15, about the negative health effects of chemical compounds that are estimated...

Jan 28, 2019
  • ECU News Services

2019 Engagement and Outreach Scholars Academy cohort announced

East Carolina University’s Office of Community Engagement and Research has announced the members of its 2019 Engagement and Outreach Scholars Academy cohort. The 2019 cohort represents 11 members from seven different...

Jan 10, 2019
  • Rob Spahr

RESEARCHING HEALTH EFFECTS OF PFAS

A professor at ECU’s Brody School of Medicine has received state and federal funding to study the health effects of potentially harmful chemical compounds that were found in North Carolina...