Biology News Archives
2011 News

Fox News video featuring Anthony Overton, PhD discussing Historic Beaufort, NC

Biology Undergraduate Honors student Kim Wade is this year's recipient of the Pitt County Wildlife Club Scholarship.

Carol Brackett of ECU won a Paul A. Stewart Award this year with the Wilson Ornithological Society
ECU Scholar and MS in Biology candidate, Lindsay Leverett awarded Shinn Grant

Article in prestigious science magazine Nature highlights work of ECU researchers on Gulf oil spill

Several Biology faculty members and students are to be congratulated for campus-wide awards given out during ECU Research and Creative Achievement Week
2010 News

Raymond O'Connor Seminar Series - Dr. Joshua Lawler, assistant professor at the University of Washington, will present a free, public presentation "Projected Climate Impacts on the Fauna of the Western Hemisphere," at 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 11, in Bate 1031 at East Carolina University.
Download the flyer (pdf)

Dr. Alex Georgakilas to be awarded the prestigious Terashima award, from the Japan Radiation Research Society.

ECU Biology Department Hosts Symposium in Honor of Retiring Distinguished Professors
ECU professors, including Dr. Dave Kimmel, research effects of BP oil spill in Gulf of Mexico and beyond.
Read Ben McGlaughon's Research Blog updated daily from the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

PIRATES camp students have the opportunity to experience real world science applications.

The 2010 American Arachnological Society annual meeting will be co-hosted by Harriot College's Department of Biology and the North Carolina Center for Biodiversity Friday, June 11, through Tuesday, June 15.
Bob Christian received a Summer Visiting Scientist Award at the Baruch Marine Field Laboratory (BMFL), University of South Carolina.

Dr. Kyle Summers research involving monogamy in amphibians featured in Science magazine. Photo Credit: Jason Brown
Will Stolzenburg, formerly of the Nature Conservancy and author of "Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predator is scheduled to speak on Earth Day, April 22, in the Science and Technology building C207 at 7 pm.

Biology Faculty and Advancement Council Members Help Local Students Present at American Association for the Advancement of Science Meetings

An intriguing and compelling example of evolution by natural selection has been demonstrated in a study involving Southern Appalachian Mountain millipedes, conducted by East Carolina University biologists Drs. Paul Marek and Jason Bond.
2009 News

Dr. Trip Lamb of East Carolina University holds the "patch nosed salamander," a new genus and species of lungless salamander that he helped identify. ECU News Services photo by Cliff Hollis.

Photo by Kyle Summers
Biology professor Joe Luczkovich stands at the back of the boat with students from the marine class returning from a day trip to Isla Taboga (visible in background) in the Pacific.