Discovery Archives

Dr. Saeed talks to a student from Elizabeth City
Jun 27, 2022
  • Spaine Stephens

BCBS gives $1.54 million to fund behavioral health program between ECU and ECSU

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina awarded $1.54 million to ECU to provide telepsychiatry services over the next five years for students at Elizabeth City State University. This...

Feb 07, 2022
  • Doug Boyd

ECU receives $5 million to strengthen coastal communities

A $5 million federal grant will support ECU researchers and students as they work to strengthen resilience in communities along the Albemarle-Pamlico estuary system of coastal North Carolina.  ECU will...

Feb 07, 2022
  • Jules Norwood

Could Sodom have been destroyed by meteor?

An ancient Middle Eastern city likely was destroyed by a cosmic airburst and could have been the origin of the biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah. That’s according to an...

Jun 02, 2021
  • Ken Buday

Carbon-fiber bridge coming to the coast

While the entire bridge won’t be built of the black composite material, its use as a reinforcing component should reduce construction and maintenance costs while extending the life of the...

Jun 01, 2021
  • Jules Norwood

On the wing

Through a long-standing partnership between ECU and Sylvan Heights Bird Park in Scotland Neck, researchers have sequenced the genome of the white-winged wood duck, which could help in the conservation...

Jan 05, 2021
  • Matt Smith

Physiologist receives patent for treating restless legs

An ECU faculty member’s latest patent may change the way restless legs syndrome is treated, leading to more effective care over a longer period of time for patients. Stefan Clemens,...

Jan 05, 2021
  • Matt Smith

Team awarded $1.5 million to study watershed resiliency

An ECU research team will use a grant of nearly $1.5 million from the National Science Foundation to combine science and economic policy to support eastern North Carolina’s environment, farmers...

Emily Yeager
May 27, 2020
  • Crystal Baity

Oyster tourism could be next big thing in eastern North Carolina

In stuffing, soup or simply steamed, oysters are a part of many food traditions. Making it easier for consumers to find oysters is one of the long-term goals of a...

Students work on setting up equipment as part of Teresa Ryan’s sound propagation research in June 2019 on the Outer Banks.
May 12, 2020
  • Ken Buday

ECU research could help save lives of military personnel

Teresa Ryan, an assistant professor in the East Carolina University Department of Engineering, has received a $370,000 grant to continue her efforts to help protect military personnel. Ryan has been...

Students working at the Brunswick Town dig site
Oct 01, 2019
  • Doug Boyd

Sedition and whiskey

Decades before Americans fought taxes in the Whiskey Rebellion, colonists apparently drank whiskey and talked rebellion in a southeastern N.C. tavern ECU students uncovered this summer. Last year at the...