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2011 News

Anthony Overton

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

Kim Wade

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

Carol Brackett

Carol Brackett of ECU won a Paul A. Stewart Award this year with the Wilson Ornithological Society

Lindsay Leverett

ECU Scholar and MS in Biology candidate, Lindsay Leverett awarded Shinn Grant

Ed Stellwag

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

research week 2011
Several Biology faculty members and students are to be congratulated for campus-wide awards given out during ECU Research and Creative Achievement Week

 Louv  NC Biodiversity Center Hosts an exciting Earth Day Event April 15th and 16th, featuring
internationally renowned
author, Richard Louv.


Mark Brinson

Save the date: Ceremony for dedication of Brinson-Christian Ecology Laboratory planned for March 18.

 gulf oil spill research Drs. Anthony Overton, Ed Stellwag, Baohong Zhang and Xiaoping Pan's research on the effects of the gulf oil spill is featured on PBS NewsHour.

2010 News

climate change flyer-image

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)

Terasima Award

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

brinson christian

ECU Biology Department Hosts Symposium in Honor of Retiring Distinguished Professors

kimmel

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.

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

arachnological

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.

christian

Bob Christian received a Summer Visiting Scientist Award at the Baruch Marine Field Laboratory (BMFL), University of South Carolina.


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Dr. Kyle Summers research involving monogamy in amphibians featured in Science magazine. Photo Credit: Jason Brown

earth day speaker

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.


aaasciencephoto

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


millipede

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

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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.

panamajoe

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.