An ECU construction management professor and a local construction company have teamed up in search of a solution to a problem facing the North Carolina Department of Transportation. The NCDOT’s...
The stories of African slaves who in 1710 escaped a pair of wrecked Danish ships off Costa Rica are being told thanks to underwater archeology work by ECU maritime studies...
A group of ECU researchers studying the effects of school leadership has secured a five-year, $9.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The study is led by primary...
Ground-level air pollution can cause a variety of health problems, and Kym Gowdy is taking a closer look at how and why. Her work, funded by a five-year, $2.5 million...
For more than 20 years, conservationists in the Caribbean have been working to protect the endangered Nassau grouper. Thanks to those efforts, populations of this critical reef fish have stabilized...
A tiny worm commonly found in compost has become a useful subject for research and forms the basis for several projects across ECU that have received federal funding. “Caenorhabditis elegans...
Sightings of nursing bull sharks in coastal estuaries such as North Carolina’s Pamlico Sound are on the rise, largely due to ocean warming, a phenomenon that is encouraging bull sharks...
Researchers in ECU’s program in maritime studies are working with the Department of Defense on a project they hope will give some peace of mind to U.S. military families who...