Testifies before Congressional Subcommittee
ECU’s director of the Center for Sustainable Tourism, Pat Long, spoke before a Congressional Subcommittee this week on the topic, “Where the Jobs Are – Promoting Tourism to America.” Long spoke on rural tourism and sustainability in the tourism ecomony before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade, Committee on Energy and Commerce in the U.S. House of Representatives. Read more/see video...
Named top nurse at medical school
The nurse specialist in the Department of Psychiatric Medicine at the ECU Brody School of Medicine received the honor Thursday at a school banquet celebrating National Nurses Week. She has been a nurse for 14 years and has worked at ECU since 2007. "I absolutely love everything about nursing," Merritt said. "It is one of, if not the, most diverse careers anyone could choose. There is so much you can do as a nurse and so many directions that you can take.... Nursing is often not an easy job, but I cannot think of any job more rewarding." Read more...
Published in Psychiatric Times
An article by Dr. Sy Saeed, chair of the Department of Psychiatric Medicine at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, titled "Is Your Signal to Noise Ratio Improving," was featured in the latest issue of Psychiatric Times. Saeed's article speaks to the challenges that psychiatrists and other mental health providers face attempting to stay current with a rapidly expanding body of medical knowledge. Read the article (free registration required). Contact Saeed.
Quoted in Bloomberg story
ECU business professor James Kleckley was quoted in a Bloomberg article on the difficulty of finding replacements for lost jobs in eastern North Carolina. The article, titled "Postal Jobs Leave Down Tobacco Road as Chicken Jobs Awaits," details the effects on workers if Kinston's postal processing plant is closed to save money. Read the article. Contact Kleckley.
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Police use hinders modernization
East Carolina University criminal justice professor Hamid R. Kusha said that an ancient system continues to impede Iran’s efforts to modernize its national police force. In his case study “Impediments to Police Modernization in Iran, 1878-1979,” published recently in "Policing and Society," Kusha discusses the history of policing in Iran and the many failed tries at modernizing the country’s National Police. Read more...
In Top Ten Again 
The Brody School of Medicine at ECU is one of the top medical schools in the country for sending graduates into family medicine. Based on a three-year average for the period ending last October, 20.9 percent of the school’s graduates have entered an accredited family medicine residency program. That ranked ECU first in the country and marked the sixth consecutive year ECU has been ranked in the top 10. Read more... Quoted in the Washington Post
ECU political science professor Jody Baumgartner was quoted in a Washington Post article about Mitt Romney's selection of a vice president as a running mate in the upcoming presidential campaign. Baumgartner indicated in the article that service as a U.S. senator greatly enhances a candidate's chance of being selected as a running mate. Read the article. Contact Baumgartner. Purple, gold plaid an ECU original
At East Carolina University, Pirate pride is written in purple and gold. ECU fans proclaim their love of all things Pirate with purple and gold bumper stickers, tee shirts, jewelry and baseball caps. Now thanks to an ECU professor, fans have yet another option for displaying their Pirate pride. Dr. Runying Chen in the Department of Interior Design and Merchandising has created an original, officially licensed, tartan plaid pattern in ECU purple and gold. Read more... Conference on terrorism at ECU
ECU religious studies professor Dr. Derek Maher is among the keynote speakers at the international conference on terrorism at ECU April 19 - 20. Maher is speaking on "Tibetan Terrorism, A Case Study in Name-Calling." Additional ECU speakers include David Durant of Joyner Library; religious studies professor Dr. Calvin Mercer; and political science professors Drs. Carmine Scavo, Robert Thompson, Alethia Cook and Jalil Roshandel. The conference will focus on the Moral Psychology of Terrorism, Implications for Security. Read more... ECU professors named FDD fellows
Two ECU professors were selected as academic fellows for 2012-13 by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a non-partisan policy institute headquartered in Washington, D.C. William Bloss, a criminal justice professor in College of Human Ecology and Robert Thompson, political science professor in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences, will travel to Israel at the end of May for an intensive course in terrorism studies and in particular, how democracies can defeat the worldwide terrorist threat. Read more... MLK research noted by CNN
The city of Memphis, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, has named a street for the civil rights leader. A CNN story about that street naming quoted research by ECU geography professor Dr. Derek H. Alderman, who has done extensive study on street naming as a method of commemorating King. Read the CNN article. Read more about Alderman's MLK research. Contact Alderman.
Second year as Hamstring winner
ECU medical student Sebastian DeMarco crossed the finish line first at the March 31 Hamstring Hustle 5K Run/Walk, making this his second straight win. The event invited participants of all ages to join in the fun, with a portion of proceeds benefiting the ECU Pediatric Healthy Weight Research and Treatment Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping children achieve a healthy weight. Read more...
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Wins national music competition
ECU senior Caroline Cox of Southern Pines won top honors at the Music Teachers National Association Young Artist String Competition. Cox, 21, is a double performance major in violin and piano, studying violin with Ara Gregorian and piano with Keiko Sekino. The MTNA Young Artist Performance Competition took place March 26, during the 2012 MTNA National Conference in New York City. As a national competition winner, Cox received $3,000, provided by the MTNA Foundation Fund. Read more...
Speaking before U.S. House Committee
ECU management professor Dr. William C. McDowell in the College of Business speaks March 28 at a U.S. House Committee on Small Business hearing titled "Large and Small Businesses: How Partnerships Can Promote Job Growth." The hearing will focus on alliances between small and large business and how those partnerships can promote job creation. McDowell is among four experts scheduled to present. Read more...
NCATA Hall of Fame Inductee
Katie Walsh, ECU director of athletic training, was inducted to the North Carolina Athletic Trainers’ Association Hall of Fame. She is one of three women recognized with hall of fame membership. Walsh was inducted at the NCATA meeting in Wrightsville Beach March 17. She was one of the first females to work full time in men’s professional athletics. Read more...
Competing in national challenge
Two teams of ECU students creating marketing campaigns are entering the final weeks of a nationwide competition. Fifty-eight ECU seniors are tasked with designing a strategy to reach college students aged 18-25. Each team is awarded $3,000 to spend on the project. Thirty-three ECU students are competing in the startUP Productions Marketing Challenge to craft a campaign for zaahah.com. Another 25 students are working in the 2012 Honda Civic Coupe project. Read more... Research reveals oil spill impact
Research by ECU faculty and students has confirmed that oil from the April 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico made it into the ocean’s food chain. In their study recently published by Geophysical Research Letters, the researchers found that crude oil from the spill entered the food chain through the tiniest of organisms, zooplankton, which forms the base of the food chain in marine ecosystems. Read more...
ECU faculty, students conserve for Spring Break
ECU graduate students in the Maritime Studies program were featured in a News and Observer story about Spring Break work preserving artifacts from a shipwrecked Civil War blockade runner. The students were working at the Department of Cultural Resources' Underwater Archaeology Branch at Fort Fisher. Read the article. Read more about ECU's program in Maritime Studies. Watch N.C. Department of Cultural Services video about the work.
Riggs quoted in New York Times
ECU geology professor Dr. Stanley Riggs was featured in a New York Times article about the difficulty of maintaining coastal Highway 12 along North Carolina's Outer Banks. With fellow ECU scientists, Riggs recently co-authored a book, "The Battle for North Carolina's Coast," that described the problems inherent in maintaining the road. Read the NY Times story. Read more about the book. Contact Riggs.
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Ringing the NASDAQ bell
ECU dietetic internship program director Sylvia Escott-Stump rang the NASDAQ stock market opening bell March 2, in her role as president of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the world's largest organization of food and nutrition professionals. Download a video from the event. See more images. Visit the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Contact Escott-Stump. Video game for wounded warriors
ECU professor of recreation and leisure studies Dr. Carmen Russoniello is featured in a U.S. Army news article on his work involving biofeedback training to help wounded soldiers control post traumatic stress and brain injury. Russoniello's work helps soldiers control functions such as heart rate, breathing, brainwaves and muscle tone. He is working on a portable biofeedback system that can be delivered through a video game. Read the story. Read more about ECU's work through the Wounded Warrior program. Contact Russoniello.
"Great Mind' in PKP Forum
ECU surgeon and director of the East Carolina Heart Institute Dr. Randolph Chitwood was featured in a member spotlight in the spring 2012 Forum, a publication of the academic honor Society Phi Kappa Phi. The publication noted that Chitwood was the first surgeon in North America to use robotics to repair mitral valves, is a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor and a 2004 Phi Kappa Phi National Scholar. Read the feature. Rethinking causes for extinction
ECU chair of biology Dr. Jeff McKinnon co-authored an article "Biodiversity: Species choked and blended" in the journal Nature and was interviewed in a podcast about species and evolution on the Nature web site Feb. 16. He examined the extinction of hybrid species due to poor fit with available resources, not intrinsic shortcomings within the blended species. Hear the podcast. Read the article.
Strategies for family life professionals
ECU certified family life educators Sharon M. Ballard and Alan C. Taylor have compiled strategies for working with 11 diverse family groups in their new book, “Family Life Education with Diverse Populations.” The book is aimed at students and professionals who need cultural competence for best results in working with families in today’s global society. Read more...
'Boomerang Kids' here to stay
East Carolina University child development and family relations professor Bryce Jorgensen and ECU alumna Maureen McNamara were featured on a WNCT-TV news program on "Boomerang Kids," who return home following graduation. Jorgensen said the phenomenon is likely here to stay. Read/watch the story. Contact Jorgensen.
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Meets First Lady
ECU dietetic internship program director Sylvia Escott-Stump met First Lady Michelle Obama Jan. 29 at a Virginia event focused on healthy school lunches. Read more...
Restaurant robberies
Armed robberies at thirteen fast food restaurants in eastern North Carolina have caused concerns among restaurant owners and patrons. ECU criminal justice director Dr. William Bloss spoke on WITN-TV news Jan. 25 about the robberies. He said it is unlikely that the same people are committee all the robberies. Contact Bloss. Read/view the WITN interview.
Music therapy interest rising
An article in the Raleigh News and Observer highlighted the rising interest in music therapy as a way to calm patients and enhance medical care, citing music therapy work that helped U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords recover from a gunshot to the brain. ECU offers undergraduate and graduate options in music therapy and hosts an ECU chapter of the American Music Therapy Association. Dr. Barbara Memory is director of ECU's music therapy program. Read more....
Selected as ARRL treasurer
ECU vice chancellor for administration and finance and Rick Niswander was selected as treasurer of the National Association for Amateur Radio. Niswander is an ARRL life member, who was first licensed in ham radio in 1967. A certified public accounant, he also serves as executive treasurer for the ECU Foundation, the ECU Medical Foundation, the ECU Alumni Association and the Pirate Club. Niswander is also a professor of accounting at ECU. He holds a BBA in accounting from Idaho State University and a Ph.D. in accounting from Texas A & M. Read the ARRL announcement. Contact Niswander.
'Musician of excellent technique'
ECU music professor Hye-Jin Kim was featured in a Palm Beach Daily News story that highlighted her performance at the Young Artists Series at the Kravis Center's Rinker Playhouse. The article described Kim as a "musician of excellent technique, deep musicianship and a gratifying taste for off-the-beaten-track repertoire." Read the article. Listen to music selections and read more about Kim.
Quoted by MSNBC
John Lee Powers, curator of anatomical materials at ECU's Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, was quoted in an MSNBC article on the difficulty of handling oversized bodies that have been donated for medical research. Read the story. Read more about ECU's anatomical donation program in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology. Contact Powers.
Homicide rates tied to community
ECU criminal justice professor Patrice Morris, a native of Jamaica and expert on crime and homicide in the Caribbean, was quoted in the Virgin Islands Daily News regarding the levels of violence in the community. "The more socially cohesive a community is here, the higher the homicide rate," Morris said. Read the story.
Interviewed on Fox Business News
ECU biology professor Dr. Anthony Overton was interviewed Dec. 26 by Fox Business News regarding the fishing industry in historic Beaufort, N.C., and the necessity for sometimes unpopular regulations that conserve and manage fish populations. Contact Overton. Watch the Fox Business News interview.
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