Dr. Carol Goodwillie received funds from the faculty senate’s Teaching Grants Committee – making the first service learning science course at ECU possible. Thirty of Goodwillie’s students helped remove invasive...
Dr. Ariane Peralta and three co-authors published an article in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, "A social-ecological framework for 'micromanaging' microbial services", that was featured on the cover of the November 2014 issue....
Molly Albecker (Ph D student,CRM), Bevin Blake (MS Biology student), Payal Chokshi (MS Biology & MBA student), Ian Davison (MS Biology student), Dorothy Dobbins—Finalist (Molecular Biology/Biotechnology student), Matt Edwards (MS Biology student), Scott Jones (PhD student, IDPBS), Morgan Kain--Winner, catchiest title (MS Biology student), Lauren McCarthy—Finalist (PhD student, IDPBS), Jillian Osborne (MS Biology student), Adam Stuckert (PhD student, IDPBS), Lenny Yong (PhD student, IDPBS)...
Four researchers in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences Department of Biology at East Carolina University have secured a Major Research Instrumentation grant from the National Science Foundation....
An undergraduate student of Dr. Yiping Qi is the first author of a Perspective article in Science magazine about the possible mechanism of ALS disease. Joseph W. Paul III completed a prestigious summer internship in Stanford University, during which he helped his internship advisor review two original manuscripts on the topic, which resulted in the published article....
Dr. Krista McCoy presented a talk about how environmental chemical exposure leads to endocrine disruption and childhood disease at the recent TEDMED live talk on September 12, 2014. Dr. McCoy...
A paper on mimicry and speciation in the Peruvian poison frog, Ranitomeya imitator, was published in Nature Communications in August 2014. The paper was authored by Evan Twomey and Dr....
Dr. Roger Rulifson, professor in the Department of Biology and senior scientist with the ECU Institute for Coastal Science and Policy, was named a 2014 Thomas Harriot College of Arts...
Research from the ECU Department of Biology on Peruvian glassfrogs was highlighted in National Geographic. Graduate student Evan Twomey, quoted in the piece, has teamed with former grad student Jesse Delia in the research. According to the article, the research has identified four new species of the see-through frogs, some with green bones. The species is known for gaudy coloring including yellow circles around the eyes....
Lauren McCarthy, a Ph.D. student in Dr. Dave Chalcraft's lab, was selected as the winner of the Ecological Society of America Aquatic Ecology Section Best Student Talk Award at the...
Jeff McKinnon and Chris Balakrishnan for their recent NIH grant Dave Chalcraft and Heather Vance-Chalcraft for a Centennial Award for Service. Anne Bunnell for a Robert L. Jones Award for...
And Chris Balakrishnan, Founder/Godfather of Nerd Nite, and Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Biology. Nerd Nite has teamed up with the Smithsonian's second annual The Future Is Here Festival May 16-18, 2014 in Washington DC so you can learn about the merging of science and science fiction from the most prestigious minds in the world while having fun!...
GREENVILLE, N.C. (April 10, 2014) — Dr. Edmund Stellwag, director of the East Carolina University Genomics Core Facility and Biotechnology Education Program and associate professor of biology, has received a North Carolina Biotechnology Center grant for the purchase of an Ion Proton DNA sequencer that will benefit collaborators from both East and West campuses....
Molly Albecker (Dr. M. McCoy) was the recipient of two awards in support of her study of the long-term ecological consequences of sea level rise and saltwater intrusion into coastal...
Two students studying in the Biochemical Toxicology lab of Dr. Xiaoping Pan were the first authors of two recently published papers featured by the Editor-in-Chief of the professional journal Archives...
Two graduate students (Faten Taki and Dorothy Dobbins) and two undergraduate students (Joseph Polli and Erin Connolly) won presentation awards at the November 8-9 Sigma XI Student Research Conference, held...
Jeff McKinnon, Professor and Chair of the Department of Biology, has published an invited commentary in leading journal Nature on the "rare male effect" in the guppy. Maria Servedio, Associate...
Functional diversity within a morphologically conservative genus of predators: implications for functional equivalence and redundancy in ecological communities. Functional Ecology 2007, 21, 793–804