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...
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...
Neurodegenerative diseases – such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and ALS – are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among older adults. Consuming docosahexaenoic acid, an omega-3 fatty acid found in...
Eastern North Carolina has a rich baseball tradition, with a pair of Hall of Famers among its native sons. That tradition could take a step forward through work ECU researchers...
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...