Dr. Rachel Gittman has named been named as a recipient of the prestigious 2024 Dean’s Early Career Awardby the dean of East Carolina University’s Thomas Harriot College of Arts and...
The Department of Biology will hold online or in-person seminars during Fall 2023 semester. All in-person seminars are located in Life Sciences and Biotechnology 1006. Links for online-only seminars will...
Thanks to the support of individuals like Dr. John and Nancy Bray, the Department of Biology has been able to support several efforts to improve public awareness about biodiversity and...
Congratulations to Drs. Elizabeth Ables, Anne Bunnell, Sue McRae and Heather Vance-Chalcraft for being recognized for their outstanding efforts in teaching. Dr. Ables received The Board of Governor’s Award for...
Congratulations to Drs. Rachel Gittman and Dr. Jean-Luc Scemama for being recognized at this year’s ceremony. Dr. Gittman received ECU’s Scholarship of Engagement Award because of her outstanding ability to...
Jeff McKinnon (Biology) recently completed a spring break study abroad trip to Costa Rica with 14 undergraduate students, most enrolled for introductory laboratory credit. During this field intensive, students learned...
ECU’s second-year dental students participated in a ceremony on Jan. 2023 where they received their white coat and made a pledge to their future patients as they begin their care...
Congratulations to David Murray and Valentine Okafor for their selection into the Class of 2026 ECU Brody Scholars. The Brody Scholarship is ECU’s most prestigious medical scholarships and includes four...
Assistant Professor Rebecca Asch and Ph.D. student Brian Bartlett were one of seven teams across the nation awarded funding by the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Climate Program Office...
Recent efforts by biology faculty and their collaborators has resulted in the securing of two external awards that will help us to improve opportunities for underrepresented populations in STEM disciplines....
Congratulations to Carol Gause who received a grant from the Carolina Bird Club and the Frances Peacock Scholarship for Native Bird Habitat from the Garden Club of America. Carol will use these funds...
Congratulations to Robert Driver (IDPBBC student in Biology) who was recently elected as Chair of the Graduate Student Advisory Council for the Society for the Study of Evolution. The Society...
Congratulations to Dr. Rebecca Asch who recently received funding from the National Science Foundation. Dr. Asch and her colleagues intend to utilize six multi-decadal fisheries data sets to investigate the...
Biology is very proud of Dr. Carol Goodwillie’s recognition at ECU’s recent Research and Scholarship Award’s ceremony...
Biology is very proud to share the news that Dr. Peralta’s has been awarded ECU’s Five-year Achievement Award for Research and Creative Activities. Dr. Peralta’s field of expertise is microbial ecology....
Blackbeard, ECU’s acoustic wave glider, is being used as part of an effort to determine the migratory pathways of southern flounder....
Interested in fisheries or marine sciences?...
Tim Lee awarded a grant from the Lerner-Gray Memorial Fund for Marine Research...
Kristen Orr, an MS student in the lab of Dr. Sue McRae, created fifteen illustrations of various ant species for the book "Tales from the Ant World" by renowned biologist and Pulitzer prize-winning author E.O. Wilson....
Biology Sophomore Anna Williams (B. S., Molecular Cell Biology, Class of 2022) is the recipient of one of the 2020-2021 George T. Barthalmus Undergraduate Research Awards. Anna’s research in Dr. Elizabeth Ables’s lab studies how germ cells divide to form interconnected multicellular cysts....
Erin Field was interviewed by Ira Flatow on NPR's Science Friday on October 16, 2020. She was featured due her work exploring the microbiome of shipwrecks - in particular the Pappy's Lane shipwreck located in Pamlico Sound....
Biology faculty lead efforts for $1.5 million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation to study how environmental change, like sea level rise, influences the effect of agricultural pollution on watersheds. Dr. Ariane Peralta.....
Emory’s Masters degree research in the lab of Dr. Rachel Gittman focuses on oyster reef restoration. In May 2018, oyster reefs were built from two different substrata on eroding salt...