ECU students measure “Green House” effect |
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Seven thousand-square-foot rental homes. Heat pumps rendered inefficient from the salt air. No vegetation or trees to shade structures. It’s enough to give Al Gore nightmares.
A partnership between Outer Banks BlueGreen, Resort Realty and East Carolina University’s Center for Sustainable Tourism is angling to help Gore rest easy while encouraging rental home owners to upgrade the “green” status of their investments.
Hunt McKinnon, from ECU’s Department of Interior Design, recently brought two interior design undergraduates, Brenna Laffey and Eva Chan, and a graduate assistant, Stefanie Benjamin with the Sustainable Tourism Center, to the Outer Banks to conduct a survey. Read more… |
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Adults with dyslexia use photography and art to convey their world view
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Children with dyslexia grow up to be adults with dyslexia. The challenges associated with dyslexia do not diminish with time but often become more complex in adulthood. Researchers at East Carolina University and the Dyslexia Research Institute used a unique process to help adults with dyslexia describe just how challenging their lives can be over and beyond their language-based difficulties. Read more… |
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Mothers with MS may be unique in their management of fatigue |
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Mothers with multiple sclerosis (MS) may be managing fatigue in strikingly different ways than well mothers or those with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), say researchers at East Carolina University. In spite of the debilitating fatigue that many people with MS regularly experience, the fatigue that mothers with MS experience was not associated with their parenting. Read more… |
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Students develop logic model for real world offender re-entry program |
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Sharon Ballard, associate professor of child development and family relations, asked her master’s level students in Program Planning & Evaluation for Child and Family Services to tackle an important issue that each member of the class will face as professionals in organizations and human service agencies serving children, families, and older adults. Read more… |
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