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This fall, the East Carolina University Honors College will welcome 20 new Brinkley-Lane Scholars to campus.
Metal design professor Mi-Sook Hur has received a Fulbright award to conduct a 10-month research project on Korean metalsmithing and enamel crafts.
Undergraduate, graduate nursing students partner though simulation to care for psychiatric patients.
ECU researchers, with university and community partners, secure a $7.5 million NSF grant to tackle local geoscience issues.
ECU’s Dr. Van Dross-Anderson is among the initial researchers granted NCInnovation funding for advancing melanoma treatment.
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