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The main campus encompasses over 400 acres in an urban forest setting within the city of Greenville and is convenient to both the downtown area and shopping centers. The campus is a pleasing mixture of architectural styles. Most of the four million square feet of academic, research, and residence facilities have modern appointments and are well equipped. The health sciences campus, located on 50 acres, houses the Brody School of Medicine and is the hub of the university's health sciences program. The west research campus is the newest addition to the university with over 400 acres and is the home for several research and graduate programs.
Since 1993, the university has spent over $200 million for capital expansion. Joyner Library houses over one million volumes; student services have been enhanced by the addition of Todd Dining Facility and the Student Recreation Center. Dowdy Ficklen Stadium was expanded to 45,000 seats, and the health sciences complex has been expanded by the addition of the Warren Life Sciences Building. Major renovations have been completed on Jarvis Residence Hall, Student Health Services, the Wright Place, and the Blount Intramural Sports Complex. In 2000, the university began a six-year capital expansion that will exceed $200 million. Campus beautification continues to be a priority with the goal of preserving and enhancing the charming character of the campus.
RESEARCH COMMITTEE AND RESEARCH FACILITIES
In addition to research that is financed by outside agencies, research and publication by faculty members are supported by funds administered by the Faculty Senate Research and Creative Activity Committee and the vice chancellor for research and graduate studies.
The main campus library at East Carolina University is Joyner Library , a facility containing 1,088,000 bound volumes, more than two million pieces of microform, and 4,763 serial titles. The newspaper files on microform are extensive and serve as an important library resource. As a selective depository for United States Government publications, the Joyner Library documents department contains over 918,218 international, federal, and state documents and 99,577 maps.
The East Carolina University Archives , a depository for the university's historical, administrative, and legal records, is located in Joyner Library.
The East Carolina Manuscript Collection is located within the special collections department of Joyner Library. This repository contains approximately 4,110 linear feet of records. Holdings of the collection include letters, diaries, speeches, scrapbooks, ledgers, legal and financial records, photographs, and related material dating from 1715 to the present. Active collection development occurs in four basic categories: North Carolina-related materials, military papers, missionary papers, and tobacco records.
Joyner Library's holdings in education, naval and maritime history, and law reference materials are particularly strong. Access to information resources is provided by CD-ROM and on line services located in the reference department.
The library's Teaching Resources Center houses a variety of curriculum resources for preschool through twelfth grade students.
Joyner Library is open 116 hours each week. Hours are posted on the main entrance of the building. Special hours are posted for holidays and semester breaks. The library maintains a recording of current operating hours that may be obtained by telephoning 252-328-4285.
The Music Library , a branch of Joyner, is located in the A. J. Fletcher Music Center. This library houses more than 62,500 items, including books, scores, video and sound recordings, and periodicals. The library provides reference services, computer searches, a reserve collection, and listening facilities. The Music Library is open seventy-eight hours each week.
William E. Laupus Health Sciences Library
Brody Medical Sciences Complex
The William E. Laupus Health Sciences Library serves as the primary information resource facility for the university's health science programs. Located in the Brody Medical Sciences Complex, the Health Sciences Library contains approximately 145,814 bound or hard copy volumes, the equivalent of an additional 177,015 volumes in microformat, and receives 1,545 periodical and serial subscriptions.
The library is equipped with more than 100 computers available for public use and supports a growing program of electronic information and services. Reference services, bibliographic instruction, class reserves, historical collections, and a state of the art computer lab are also available. Additional information about library program, services and hours may be found by visiting our website at http://www.hsl.ecu.edu.
Information Technology and Computing
Services
124 Austin
Information Technology and Computing Services (ITCS) provides computing, network, and outreach support for academic education, research, and administrative programs on campus. ITCS partners with campus departments, other universities, and industry to make strategic investments in the information technology infrastructure. East Carolina University has over sixty student computer laboratories located throughout campus that support both discipline-specific applications as well as general computing on campus. Internet access is provided in our Cyber Cafe and through wireless connectivity on campus. Information technology assistance is provided through the university-wide Help Desk and computer training courses are offered on a regular basis. ITCS supports an immersive visualization facility for teaching and learning, a high performance computing facility that provides computing resources on an SGI Origin 2000 parallel processing computer, and a high-speed connection to the Internet. ECU's web portal (OneStop) enables students to access grades, register for classes, and transact many everyday administrative functions on line. Further information about ITCS and the information technology environment on campus may be obtained by writing the Chief Information Officer, 124 Austin Building, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858-4353 or calling 252-328-6401.
Oak Ridge Associated Universities
East Carolina University has been a sponsoring institution of Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) since 1992. ORAU is a private, not-for-profit consortium of sixty-five colleges and universities and a management and operating contractor for the US Department of Energy (DOE) with principal offices located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Founded in 1946, ORAU provides and develops capabilities critical to the nation's technology infrastructure, particularly in energy, education, health, and the environment. ORAU works with and for its member institutions to help faculty and students gain access to federal research facilities; to keep members informed about opportunities for fellowship, scholarship, and research appointments; and to organize research alliances among its members in areas where their collective strengths can be focused on issues of national importance.
ORAU manages the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) for DOE. ORISE is responsible for national and international programs in science and engineering education, training and management systems, energy and environment systems, and medical sciences. ORISE's competitive programs bring students at all levels, K-12 through postgraduate, and university faculty members into federal and private laboratories.
ORAU's office for University, Industry, and Government Alliances (UIGA) seeks out opportunities for collaborative alliances among its member universities, private industry, and federal laboratories. Current alliances include the Southern Association for High Energy Physics (SAHEP) and the Center for Bio-Electromagnetic Interaction Research (CBEIR). Other UIGA activities include the sponsorship of conferences and workshops, the Visiting Scholars Program, and the Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards.
Requests for more information about ORAU programs should be directed to the Graduate School office; telephone 252-328-6937.
Research opportunities are available at the Institute for Coastal and Marine Resources, the Biotechnology Center, the Developmental Evaluation Clinic, the Mental Health Training Institute, East Carolina Regional Development Institute, East Carolina Business Foundation, the Speech and Hearing Clinic, and the Reading Laboratory.
SPONSORED JOURNALS AND PUBLICATIONS
The Children's Folklore Review, sponsored by the East Carolina University Department of English, is the official publication of the Children's Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society. The Review, published twice a year for CFS members throughout the United States and in over a dozen foreign countries, contains information and articles of interest to scholars working with children and their lore.
The Concord Saunterer, published by The Thoreau Society since 1966, is an annual journal of biographical, historical, textual, bibliographical, and interpretive articles relating to Henry Thoreau and his associates, Concord, and American Transcendentalism. An international journal in both authorship and readership, The Concord Saunterer has a circulation of more than 2,000 and includes distinguished work by established and emerging scholars.
The Minnesota Review, published since 1992 at East Carolina University, is one of the few remaining full-range literary journals publishing fiction, poetry, and photography as well as criticism and reviews. A progressive journal, the Minnesota Review addresses some of the more urgent literary and cultural issues of our day.
The North Carolina Folklore Journal, published twice a year, includes folklife studies of traditional groups and cultural forms: verbal folklore and musical lore, analyses of folklore in literature, and interviews with folk traditional artists. Established in 1948, NCFJ publishes work by an interdisciplinary array of scholars and is sponsored by the North Carolina Folklore Society (established in 1913), the North Carolina Arts Council, the Department of English, and the College of Arts and Sciences.
The North Carolina Geographer has published high quality articles on the social and physical geography of North Carolina since its inception in 1941. The Geographer providing not only a forum for those interested in such research but also a highly visible testament to the quality research undertaken within the state. Geography faculty from East Carolina University, Western Carolina University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and other universities have contributed cutting-edge work subsequently read inside and outside of North Carolina.
The North Carolina Literary Review is published annually by the Department of English, East Carolina University, and the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association. NCLR publishes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction prose by and interviews with North Carolina writers and articles and essays about North Carolina literature, history, and culture.
Tar River Poetry, an international journal of poetry and reviews, is published twice a year (fall and spring) under the auspices of the East Carolina University Department of English.
East Carolina University seeks to provide instruction, research, and service for the state and nation . University policy promotes these activities in a free and open environment with the intent to publish new information and results in the appropriate scholarly literature. However, the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina has determined that patenting, licensing, and copyrighting of products resulting from the work of university employees and students utilizing university facilities must be consistent with the university's mission and purposes. University ownership of patents, licenses, in some cases in policies issued by the University of North Carolina and East Carolina University, and copyrights is described in detail in The University of North Carolina Patent and Copyright Policies. Copies of these policies can be obtained from the Office of Technology Transfer. East Carolina University policies and procedures are published in the Faculty Manual, Part VII.