ECU achieves historic research, grant funding
ECU received $85.6 million in sponsored awards, its highest level on record, during fiscal year 2023. Sponsored awards come from a variety of sources, including industry and foundations as well...
Winter 2024 Archives
Malkin establishes gambling research, policy project at ECU
Michelle L. Malkin, an assistant professor of criminal justice and criminology at ECU, is leading a project that aims to study the evolving landscape of gambling in North Carolina and...
Events highlight Air Force ROTC’s decades of impact and alumni
ECU this fall celebrated 75 years of its Air Force ROTC unit. Stemming from a 1947 application initiated by then college President John Messick, Air Force ROTC Detachment 600 opened...
ECU joins partnership to boost innovation in NC
Thanks in part to university research, North Carolina has great potential for research and development but trails other states in commercializing that research, according to NCInnovation, a nonprofit formed to...
Athletic aspirations
Sophia LoCicero Year: Graduate Student Major: Speech-language pathology Hometown: Lynbrook, N.Y. From an early age, Sophia LoCicero ’22 knew she wanted to play college sports. “I wanted to be...
QAR lab partners with Waccamaw Siouan Tribe to conserve 930-year-old canoe
Watch a video on the Lake Waccamaw canoe It’s not uncommon for children to step on a submerged log or stump while playing in a North Carolina lake or river....
Study by ECU medical student shows effects of wildfire smoke on infants
Radhika Dhingra already had the letters “Dr.” before her name before she stepped foot into the Brody Medical Sciences Building as a medical student. Dhingra completed her undergraduate education in...
Research team identifies new type of muscle
ECU physiologists and graduate students – as well as a high school student – have worked together over the past couple of years to discover and describe a muscle in...
Experts seek ways to save Sugarloaf Island
It might be winter now, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a great time to be at the beach. That goes for tourists as well as ECU scientists, such as...