Spotlight Archives

Aug 30, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

GRANT FUNDS INNOVATIVE RESEARCH INTO FERTILITY CHALLENGES

Research scientists from Biology and the Brody School of Medicine received nearly $2 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health to find better ways to help people dealing...

Aug 16, 2023
  • Lacey Gray

FIRST-EVER SURVEY OF MARINE BIOINVASIONS FROM THE MID-ATLANTIC

Dr. April Blakeslee, associate professor of biology, and her graduate student are part of a group of scientists investigating non-native marine species in mid-Atlantic marinas.

Aug 15, 2023
  • Lacey Gray

DISAPPEARING ISLAND

ECU faculty and students in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment are studying the impact of erosion on Sugarloaf Island.

Aug 03, 2023
  • Jules Norwood

THE STORIES IN SOOT

An ECU geological sciences lab is tracing fire's fingerprints through history.

Aug 03, 2023
  • Lacey Gray

ECU TO ASSIST INTERNATIONAL TEAM ON $1.5M FUNDED RURAL, COMMUNITY RESEARCH PROJECT

Two Harriot College faculty will spend the next five years researching and implementing community-based interventions to reduce heat-related illnesses in rural Mexico.

Aug 03, 2023
  • Lacey Gray

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES

Faculty and students are researching the effects of climate on marine species and changing fish populations.

Apr 10, 2023
  • Kim Tilghman

LIFETIME OF CARING: PIONEER RESEARCHER RECEIVES LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Yu “Frank” Yang, a professor of chemistry, is passionate about his work, students, colleagues, ECU and our planet.

Feb 02, 2023
  • Kim Tilghman

STUDENT PLANNING PROJECT HELPS TOWN REVITALIZATION

The town of Maysville is celebrating an $850,000 grant to revitalize its main street - an ECU class project helped make it possible.

Jan 26, 2023
  • Meaghan Skelly

CHLOE SCATTERGOOD IS PASSIONATE ABOUT ARCHAEOLOGY

Scattergood wants people to know that her fields isn't just about digging through dirt.

Dec 05, 2022
  • Lacey Gray

RESEARCHING HIDDEN SHIPWRECKS

For more than 200 years, boats have unknowingly passed over a presumed historic shipwreck off the southern coast of Antigua. Now, ECU maritime historians and students are researching the vessel.