Congratulations to Steven Orr, a graduate student in Dr. Issa's lab, winner of the People's Choice award, and to all presenting at the 2017 Three Minute Thesis Competition. Thanks to their efforts (and their mentors), Biology was able to retain the Departmental Championship Title!...
BRUCE PANNETON (BS Biology ’96, MS Biology ’02 with Professor Hal J. Daniel, III) is now Dean of Health Sciences and Public Safety at Edgecombe Community College, NC. Bruce is former chair of the Science Department at ECC and received the ECC Keihin Endowed Faculty Chair in 2009 which rewards excellence in teaching....
Heather Vance-Chalcraft and Claudia Jolls will be collaborating on a National Science Foundation Noyce Grant, which will provide 30 scholarships for ECU students to earn science or mathematics teaching licensure and a master's degree....
Biology Alumnus (BS ‘76 and MS ’79); Dr. Robert Twilley has been honored by Environmental Law Institute as the recipient of the 2017 National Wetlands Award for Science Research. Dr. Mark Brinson received the same award in 1995, so ECU Biology can claim TWO recipients of this prestigious award!...
Congratulations to Elizabeth Ables who was selected by a committee of faculty and graduate students as the winner of the 5th Annual ECU Distinguished Graduate Faculty Mentor Award, Master’s Category....
Joe Luczkovich was recently elected as the President-Elect of the Atlantic Estuarine Research Society (AERS), the oldest scientific society dedicated to the study of estuaries in the world -founded in 1948. Joe will serve one year as President-Elect, two years as President and two more years as Past-President. Congratulations!...
Dr. Bob Christian is co-author of a recently published article presenting an approach for predicting the role of individual taxa in the response of food webs to perturbations, and using this framework to quantify the relative trophic importance and oil sensitivity of salt marsh organisms to the 2010 Deepwater Horizonspill....
Congratulations to Beth Thompson who was recognized with an ECU 2016-2017 Scholar-Teacher Award. The Award Ceremony will be held on Thursday, April 20 2017 from 5:00-6:30 pm in the Murphy Center....
Congratulations to Dr. Ariane Peralta who was nominated and selected to be this year's awardee for the 2017 Coastal Maritime Council Coastal Scholar Award, based on her demonstrated intellectual merit and broader impacts as a coastal scholar during her time at ECU....
Congratulations to Kyle Summers, who was recently honored with a 2017 East Carolina University Lifetime Research/Creative Activity Award....
Rebecca Asch is co-author of a manuscript recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that examines the relationship between phytoplankton productivity and fisheries catch on a global scale, and makes projections of the future impacts of climate change on fisheries catch potential....
Congratulations to Molly Albecker on receiving a competitive NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant in the Directorate for Biological Sciences! Her award is titled "DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Mechanisms of adaptation to saltwater by an amphibian." Molly is a PhD candidate in the lab of Dr. Michael McCoy in the Biology department....