Spotlight Archives

Nov 10, 2022
  • Nathan Richards

CLUES TO A FORGOTTEN FISHERY

Graduate students in the program in maritime studies searched for clues to a forgotten fishery within the dark waters of Albemarle Sound.

Sep 28, 2022
  • Lacey Gray

RECRUITING STUDENTS TO STEM

ECU is one of five NC universities collaborating on a $3.4 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to better recruit and support students from underrepresented backgrounds in STEM.

Sep 27, 2022
  • Kim Tilghman

BUILDING DISASTER RESILIENCE

Dr. Meghan Millea, professor of economics and interim director of ECU’s Natural Hazards Research Center, is part of a team on a new $16 million NSF grant.

Sep 21, 2022
  • Lacey Gray

FELLOWSHIP SUPPORT FOR ECU RESEARCHER’S PROJECT WITH THE DPAA

Dr. Jen McKinnon, professor of history, has been awarded an additional $75,000 to support another year of the Defense POW MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) research project she has led since...

Sep 16, 2022
  • Doug Boyd

ECU ALUMNUS WANTS TO SOLVE THE MYSTERIES OF MIGRAINES

A spring 2022 graduate of East Carolina University with a master’s in biomedical science and a concentration in neuroscience, Mandee Schaub plans to help people like her who suffer from debilitating headaches.

Sep 06, 2022
  • Lacey Gray

BRINGING PROBLEM GAMBLING TO LIGHT

Research by Dr. Michelle Malkin, assistant professor of criminal justice, shows that North Carolina has a high rate of problem gambling despite the lack of legalized gambling available in the state.

Aug 02, 2022
  • Lacey Gray

FORGOTTEN WWII BATTLE

Researchers in East Carolina University’s Program in Maritime Studies have received a $707,000 grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Office of Ocean Exploration and Research to explore a World War...

Jul 20, 2022
  • Lacey Gray

GAINING CAREER EXPERIENCE

East Carolina University students in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences recently completed a month-long archaeology dig of one of the oldest structures in Bath, the oldest town in North Carolina....

Jul 06, 2022
  • Lacey Gray

DIVE THERAPY AND RECOVERY

East Carolina University researchers continue to search for and recover missing aircraft and WWII personnel off the coast of Saipan through a project led by Thomas Harriot College of Arts and...

Jun 15, 2022
  • Lacey Gray

WORKAHOLISM AND DIABETES

East Carolina University faculty in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences and the Brody School of Medicine have received $451,053 in grant funding from the National Institutes of Health to research an association...