MITCHELSON'S MEMO

Good Monday to you. It’s another good day to be a Pirate and another good day to celebrate the mission that we all treasure. One of the very best things that we share as a university community is a passionate commitment to our mission. We are proud to proclaim promises to maximize student success and lead regional transformation. Those commitments are a clear source of ECU identity for the outside world and a clear source of internal cohesiveness. Our intentionality within instruction, research, and service for these two dimensions (student success and regional transformation) has only increased since we issued our mission statement with BOT and BOG approval in 2013.

Institutional vigilance and intentionality do not just happen. We have certainly built institutional infrastructure and programming dedicated to maximizing student success and regional transformation. I was proudly reminded of our student-centeredness a little over a week ago at our annual Student Success Conference, hosted in our spectacular new main campus student center. The Pirate Academic Success Center, Writing Center, Math Cave, Student Transitions, Career Services, Student Leadership and Civic Engagement, Advising Collaborative, Counseling Services, Predictive Analytics, and Living-Learning Communities were highlighted for over 400 attendees (nearly half from other institutions). Then, I was reminded of our regional commitment just last week when Chancellor Staton and VC Golden hosted an industry round-table. Industry awards were delivered (Grady-White and Grover Gaming), updates were provided on research growth and our progress with innovation/entrepreneurship, and a new “collaboratory” was announced. The ECU Collaboratory will apply advanced analytics and visualization to arrive at good solutions to regional public and private problems within a specially designed space. As we achieve this mission and tell the story, national notoriety will derive.

ECU has had a Regional Transformation Council (RTC) since 2014 when we created it as part of our application to be designated as an APLU Innovation and Economic Prosperity (IEP) University. We were successful in our application and became one of a handful of such universities. That RTC continues to meet on a regular basis and is made up of two VCs, deans/directors from most colleges, and other key leaders within REDE. The meetings are intended to keep us all abreast of developments (internal and external) and to set agendas for growing emphases like innovation and entrepreneurship (with students!). Plans for Building 43 (our designated innovation/entrepreneurship on-campus hub) emerged from that Council. So, our intention to lead regional transformation comes with a heavy dose of planning and coordination across a broad spectrum of our campus. Collectively, the RTC serves on just about every board dealing with economic development, locally and regionally (Pitt County Development Commission, Uptown Greenville, Greenville-Pitt County Chamber, Pitt County Committee of 100, NCEast Alliance, NC Global Transpark, etc.). Internal (faculty, staff, students) and external voices are always present at our RTC meetings.

Late last week we held the inaugural meeting of the Undergraduate Student Success Council (UGSSC). Institutionalizing a university-wide group to address our prime directive, student success, is essential to carrying on the work of recent ad hoc groups like the Finish in Four Initiative and the Chancellor’s Enrollment Management Task Force. The UGSSC is made up of 25 passionate professionals with representation from Academic Affairs, Health Sciences, Student Affairs, Administration and Finance, REDE, and the Chancellor’s Division. Simply put, we need to do a better job of attracting students to Greenville NC and then insuring that they have every opportunity to succeed once they join us, before leaving with a career path in front of them. While we would have come to this level of intentional collaboration sooner or later, our decline in total enrollment last fall becomes a focal point for the early efforts of the UGSSC. Our intention to maximize student success can only be achieved with another heavy dose of planning and coordination at institutional level.

Student Success and Regional Transformation. That’s our mission. We are better organized now to get the job done than we ever have been. The RTC and the UGSSC help to insure that we do not shrink from the task. More importantly, faculty, staff, and students get up every morning and live the mission. It’s good to live intentionally. Thank you for doing just that.

Regards,

RonM

PIRATE ACADEMIC SUCCESS CENTER

Pirate Academic Success Center (PASC) offers freshmen the opportunity to join center learning communities designed to increase their academic engagement and college success, providing common coursework, academic peer mentoring, study skills coaching, and tutoring services. This year 106 freshmen joined a PASC learning community in Fall 2018. In addition, 115 freshmen with a cumulative GPA under a 2.0 joined Mindset for Success, a spring semester program devoted to their academic recovery. The center is in the Old Cafeteria Complex and offers tutoring, course focused study groups, workshops, course content videos, study skills coaching, and academic mentoring services. All PASC services are free to ECU students. Faculty or staff wishing to refer students to PASC services should contact Dr. Elizabeth Coghill at coghille@ecu.edu.

GLOBAL AFFAIRS

The Office of Global Affairs and the College of Education are currently hosting 14 students from Shaanxi Normal University in Xi’an, China. The students are on campus to improve their English language skills, experience American culture, and learn about the US primary, secondary and higher education system with visits to local schools and cultural attractions. Special thanks to Dr. Allen Guidry (College of Education), Nicole Ianieri (Global Affairs), Tricia Wilson-Okamura (Foreign Languages and Literatures), Dr. Jennifer Valko (FLL) and student assistants Diamond Ragin and Leigh Ann Fleming for their efforts on this program. Finally, thanks to the numerous members of the ECU community who will serve as weekend host families for the students.

Sixty ECU students received a total of $54,000 in study abroad scholarships for summer and fall programs through the Thomas W. Rivers Foreign Exchange Scholarship Fund, the Harold H. Bate Foundation Study Abroad Scholarship Fund, and the Mary Paschal and Marguerite Perry Endowment Fund. This disbursement represents a second round of funding and is in addition to the $126,000 in scholarships awarded to 114 students in November.

Program deadlines for fall 2019 and full-year exchange programs are February 15th. The deadline for fall registration for ECU Tuscany – ECU’s full-time, general education campus in the medieval village of Certaldo, Italy – is February 28th. Please remind any students who may be interested in spending a semester abroad that now is the time to finalize their program applications.

Enrollment at the ECU Language Academy (ECULA) reached 33 students in January, an all-time high. ECULA students, including full-time, part-time, and short-term participants, are working to improve their English fluency, in many cases with the goal of entering ECU degree programs. Please consider volunteering to serve as a conversation partner for our students. Conversation hour is Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM in Brewster D311.

RESEARCH, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ENGAGEMENT

ECU reinforced its commitment to drive economic growth in the region with the announcement of its new Economic Growth Collaboratory. The collaboratory focuses on the development of powerful new approaches which leverage big data and analytics with data visualization and community-wide collaboration to find meaningful pathways and opportunities for economic growth. The collaboratory officially launches in March with an initial focus on value-add agriculture.

Faculty members, postdoctoral scholars and graduate students are encouraged to volunteer as judges for this year’s Research and Creative Achievement Week. Judges can sign up to participate online. Judging workshops are required for new graduate students and are scheduled for March 12, 5-6 p.m., Rawl 101, and March 21, 5:00-6:00 p.m., Brody 4N86. The 2019 Research and Creative Achievement Week will be held April 1-8 at the main student center.

Sharon Paynter, assistant vice chancellor for community engagement and research, has been named to the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities’ inaugural Commission on Economic and Community Engagement’s executive committee. The commission was created to lead the APLU’s mission of expanding economic development and community engagement. CECE focuses on broadening engagement through three areas including talent and workforce development; innovation, entrepreneurship and tech-based economic development; and place development through public service, outreach, extension and engagement.

The Office of Community Engagement and Research’s State Employees Credit Union Public Fellows Internship Program received $100,000 in funding from the SECU Foundation for 2019. The program’s site application process is underway and student recruitment will begin for 20 internship sites across eastern North Carolina in early February. The 2019 cohort is the fifth group of students to participate in the program. The internships connect the university and regional communities through projects that address community-identified priorities. Undergraduate student placements provide opportunities for fellows to develop leadership, analytical, problem solving, communication and project management skills, as well as allowing them to network in professional settings. Click HERE to learn more about the program.

ECU’s Office of Community Engagement and Research has announced the members of its 2019 Engagement and Outreach Scholars Academy (EOSA) cohort. The 2019 cohort represents 11 members from seven different ECU colleges and schools. Established in 2009, EOSA provides professional development and project support for community-engaged research projects. Faculty are selected to the program through a peer-reviewed process and participate in cohort-based workshops while developing a research project with a community partner. Projects result in a culture of partnership, reciprocity and high-quality scholarship across campus and beyond.

The Snow Hill startup company Glean, LLC – a 2018 I-Corps graduate – won the People’s Choice Award on January 15 at the American Farm Bureau’s Ag Innovation Challenge at its annual meeting in New Orleans. Since completing I-Corps, Glean hired several ECU student interns and received a $50,000 seed grant from N.C. Idea to further develop their product line of beet, pumpkin and sweet potato flours, powders and gummies.

Additionally, ECU start-up company RFPi Inc. received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin marketing its iCertainty™ blood flow and perfusion imaging medical device for use by surgeons in open surgery. iCertainty™ is the first commercially available imaging device that shows real-time blood flow and perfusion in vascular structures and critical tissues during surgeries without the use of injections, dyes, radiation, direct patient contact or surgical interruption. Co-inventors of iCertainty™ include Bruce Ferguson, formerly of the Brody School of Medicine’s Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, and Cheng Chen, Xin Hua Hu and Ken Jacobs from the Harriot College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Physics.

OFFICE FOR EQUITY & DIVERSITY

The Office for Equity and Diversity (OED) recently coordinated a visit with ECU academic deans and administrators to the University of Florida (UF), a high producer of Ph.D.’s underrepresented in their field, to explore the potential for developing faculty pipelines.

UF hosted ECU on January 23-24. ECU deans and administrators met with their UF counterparts to learn more about program needs and commonalities, as well as the opportunity for partnership around collaborative research. During the visit, the ECU team also participated in a networking meeting with UF postdoctoral scholars and Ph.D. candidates.

Investing in relationships with key sources of qualified, diverse talent (pipeline relationship development) is a strategic approach and among best practices designed to achieve diverse recruitment pools. Next steps include further developing this collaborative relationship and the promise and potential for diversifying our faculty.

COLLEGE UPDATES

COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES

Dr. Dale Knickerbocker, professor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, has been elected president of the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts, an organization of scholars, writers, and publishers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in literature, film, and the other arts, with more than 500 members from 27 countries. His three-year term will begin March 2019.

Dr. Jessica Ford, assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, is the 2019 American Psychological Association Division 19, Military Psychology, Early Career Psychology Committee Chair Select. She will join a trio of ECPs (including the current and past chair) for a three-year commitment to the Division 19 Executive Committee.

LaKela Atkinson, an English PhD student, has been elected to a two-year term on the Southeastern Writing Center Association Board as the HBCU Representative. Atkinson will be working closely with HBCUs and helping the organization meet the needs of these institutions.

Aleck Tan, a maritime studies major, has been appointed as the 2019-2021 graduate student representative for the Advisory Council of Underwater Archaeology. The ACUA is the only international advisory board for underwater archaeology, and it is an honor for Tan to be appointed.

Dr. Scott Curtis, distinguished professor of atmospheric science in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, has won the Meritorious Service Award from the Geological Society of American Environmental and Engineering Geology Division.

William “Chris” Thaxton, a biology graduate student who will graduate in May, is one of 66 students from across the United States who has received a 2019 John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship. Read more HERE.

Sociology graduate student Cassie Meyer’s honors paper won the Himes Award for Outstanding Student Paper in Sociology from the North Carolina Sociological Association. Meyer will receive a monetary award and is invited to present her paper at the NCSA Annual Conference on February 15. The title of Meyer's thesis is “Investigating the Effect of Paternal Incarceration during Childhood on Adolescent Academic Achievement, Behavior, and Peer Groups.”

COLLEGE OF BUSINESS

The Risk Management & Insurance program recently hosted Distracted Driving Week, which included a distracted driving simulator for students and others to try. The simulation included various scenarios where driving while distracted by cell phone usage could lead to accidents. According to the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles, 20.3 percent of 2016 crashes in North Carolina involved distracted driving. Twenty-five deaths also were attributed to distracted driving.

Dr. Kim Cameron, the William Russell Professor of Management & Organizations with University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, will be the College of Business' 2019 Cunanan Family Leadership Series Speaker. Scheduled for February 5, 2:00-3:00 p.m. in the Black Box Theater of the new Main Campus Student Center, Cameron’s discussion is titled "Enhancing Excellence at ECU through Positive Leadership." His presentation will highlight research and empirically-based practices that have been shown to produce high levels of performance in students, leaders and organizations.

A record-setting 40 companies will be on hand for this year’s School of Hospitality Leadership Career Fair, which is Wednesday, February 6, 1:30-4:30 p.m. at the Student Center, Main Campus. The event is open to all ECU students. Business dress and resumes are required.

Teams Health4PINE, ECU Events and Team Buzz Box will represent ECU internationally at the regional finals of the ninth Annual Hult Prize competition, which will be held in March and April of 2019 in London, Bogota, Oslo and other cities. The Hult Prize is a crowdsourcing platform that identifies and launches disruptive and catalytic social ventures that aim to solve the planet’s most pressing challenges. The first round of the competition was November 2018, which marked the Miller School of Entrepreneurship’s third straight year of hosting the event. Three ECU teams had to respond to the theme of this year’s challenge: solving youth’s unemployment.

Sara Thorndike, the Vice Chancellor of Administration and Finance, recently spoke to School of Hospitality Leadership seniors and presented an overview of the planning process for an ECU hotel on Reade between Third and Fourth Streets in Uptown Greenville. As course work, the students, assigned in multiple groups, will conduct a preliminary feasibility study for the hotel. They also will recommend a concept and brand, analyze competition, estimate growth of demand for room nights, conduct penetration analyses, estimate an average of daily rates and provide an estimate of annual operating results.

Businessstudent.com just ranked the College of Business' MBA program No. 8 nationally (and No. 2 in the Southeast) in its 2019 Editors’ Choice Online MBA Programs report. Online MBA Report also ranked the online program No. 3 in the state of North Carolina and No. 17 in the south. To determine these rankings, Online MBA Report evaluated more than 300 institutions and looked at criteria such as academic reputation, value, selectivity, program quality and enrollment numbers.

The Department of Accounting recently hosted the second Accounting Research Roundtable Gathering (ARRG) on ECU’s campus. Six doctoral students in accounting, representing four different universities, presented their research ideas in an informal, round table discussion. Accounting students and faculty also participated in the discussion and provided feedback on the presentations.

The Miller School of Entrepreneurship recently collaborated with the College of Nursing for the Midwifery Mini Business Institute, which is part of a semester-long program that prepares professional nurses as safe and competent practitioners of nurse-midwifery. Students participated in the all-day workshop that included activities to get them thinking about how to start a business and the develop a business plan. At the end of the semester, student groups will pitch their business plans to the class.

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

Two local programs collaborated to celebrate the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service at River Park North. About 40 student volunteers from Boys & Girls Clubs of the Coastal Plain (BGCCP) – Jack Minges Unit and East Carolina University College of Education’s STEM-CORPS EAST AmeriCorps program spent the morning cleaning up River Park North. Afterward, the Americorps members enjoyed lunch at the ECU Health Sciences Student Center and then watched a video on the life and legacy of Dr. King. For more information about the STEM-CORPS EAST program, click HERE.

Robert (Robbie) Quinn has joined the Rural Education Institute as a new Research and Innovation Associate Faculty Member. Quinn holds a position as Associate Professor of Art Education and serves as Assistant Dean of Curriculum and Assessment in the College of Fine Arts and Communication. Dr. Quinn’s work within REI will be focused upon supporting ongoing research with middle school art teachers and computational thinking, researching STEAM-based curriculum implementation at Greene County High School art classes, and building on relationships with art teachers in Latham Clinical Network schools to determine arts-based interventions with ongoing research regarding mental health and technology integration.

Two members of the ECU College of Education faculty, Dr. Mikkaka Overstreet (Department of Literacy Studies) and Dr. Christina M. Tschida (Department of Elementary and Middle Grades Education) were named the Spring 2019 honorees for the Profiles in Diversity award at the college’s faculty and staff meeting on Friday, January 25. The Profiles in Diversity award recognizes faculty or staff from across the ECU College of Education for their commitment to issues of diversity, equity, and social justice in their life and work. Special attention is given to faculty and staff whose identities and work may have been historically marginalized in society and mainstream educational research and practice. Read more about the biographies and work of Drs. Overstreet and Tschida HERE.

The Rural Education Institute is pleased to announce that COE Alumna, Lindsey Cahoon, has been named the North Carolina Sanford Teacher Award winner by Sanford Education Programs at National University. The Rural Education Institute is part of the Sanford Education Collaborative- a network committed to teaching excellence. While the profession demands that teachers value their students and work hard to help them learn, Sanford Teacher Award winners do this and more. They exemplify the best models, in and out of the classroom, for helping students gain lifetime lessons that linger long after the student has forgotten how to factor a quadratic equation or who signed the Treaty of Ghent. Click HERE for the Sanford Teacher Award announcement and a complete list of winners by state.

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

The Department of Construction Management’s Dr. George Wang paid a visit to two universities in Taiwan during a trip in December, exchanging ideas with faculty members at National Taiwan University (NTU) and delivering a guest lecture at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU). His lecture to about 70 graduate students in the Department of Civil Engineering at NCKU focused on the materials and methods of building sustainable civil infrastructure. The visit has established connections for possible future research collaboration, academic exchange and study abroad opportunities for students, he said.

Construction management student Joseph Franklin was selected by the Associated General Contractors Education and Research Foundation as the winner of its annual Allhands Essay Competition. Franklin will travel to the AGC convention in Denver in April and earned a $1,000 cash prize for himself and $500 for his faculty advisor, Bryan Wheeler. Franklin’s essay addressed the issue of attracting and retaining top employees in the construction industry.

COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS & COMMUNICATION

Nanyoung Kim's paper, “Challenges of teaching and preparing edTPA,” was published in the January issue of Art Education.

School of Art and Design graduate students Carolyn Buss and Sephra Reyes chaired and produced another robust Material Topics Symposium. The three-day event serves metals (jewelry) students from ECU, is a homecoming event for alumni, and attracts undergraduate and graduate students internationally. Read more HERE.

School of Music faculty Catherine Garner, piano, and Daniel Shirley, tenor, presented a joint master class followed by a recital of British songs at Wingate University on January 18.

Stephen Ivany (trombone) gave guest recitals at the Florida State University, Troy University, the University of West Florida and Columbus State University in late January. In March, he’ll serve as guest artist in residence at the University of Delaware’s Trombone Day.

Clarinetist Douglas Moore-Monroe spent 10 days in China in November as a guest of the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music. He gave master classes, lessons to individual students, coached chamber music ensembles and produced a recording due out for commercial release next year. He also taught at Beijing’s Music High School. In other news, he was a guest musician with the Baltimore Symphony on November 30 and December 2, playing in a program featuring Joshua Bell performing Saint-Saens’s Violin Concerto #3 and Vaughan-Williams’s Symphony #4.

The ECU Tuba/Euphonium Ensemble is one of 40 groups invited to perform at the 2019 International Tuba Euphonium Conference to be held at the University of Iowa on May 25 through June 1. The ensemble, under the direction of Drs. Jarrod Williams and Stephen Ivany, will perform a concert of world premieres composed by ECU music composition students and faculty.

COLLEGE OF HEALTH & HUMAN PERFORMANCE

The College of Health and Human Performance hosted a college-wide workshop, Advancing Prevention Science Across Disciplines, on January 14 at the East Carolina Heart Institute. Dr. Debra Berke, psychology program chair and founder of the Doctor of Science in Prevention Science at Wilmington University in Delaware, delivered the keynote address. Speakers who joined the group via video conference included:

• Dr. David Murray, director, Office of Disease Prevention, National Institutes of Health
• Dr. George Hobor, program officer, Communities of Health, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Dr. Leslie Leve, president of the Society for Prevention Science, associate vice president for research and associate director of the Prevention of Science Institute, University of Oregon

In the afternoon, working groups discussed their research, teaching and service related to topics including: disability and chronic illness, service members, bioenvironmental health and quality living environment, biobehaviorial health and quality of life in communities (cellular, individual, social, community and constructed environment, as well as policy levels), and training in the helping professions toward enhancing quality of life.

A follow-up open house will take place on February 13 for HHP faculty to see the fruits of their labor and add to summaries of the working group products.

HONORS COLLEGE

Congratulations to EC Scholar Meghan Lower on her upcoming publication! Lower, who works with Dr. Joi Walker, will see "Facilitating Argumentation in the Laboratory: The Challenges of Claim Change and Justification by Theory," published in the Journal of Chemical Education.

This year’s Senior Impact Trip for EC Scholars included service at the Ronald McDonald House, conversation and a studio tour with renowned artist and ECU alumnus Mark Horton, a visit to Fort Sumter, and much more. The enrichment experience is an opportunity to meaningfully connect and make a difference in the world.

ECU’s Hult Prize Challenge winner Health for People in Need Everywhere (Health4PINE), a nonprofit founded by EC Scholar Pranaya Pakala, is now the recipient of a Google Grants award. Google Grants is an in-kind advertising program that awards free online advertising to registered nonprofits via Google AdWords. Their awards support organizations that share Google’s philosophy of community service to help the world. The Health4PINE team, comprised of Pranaya Pakala, EC Scholar Phoenix Little, and fellow ECU teammates Johanna Adamo and Gina Bonini, will be the only U.S. team competing in the London Regional Final for a chance to win $1M in seed capital!

INTEGRATED COASTAL PROGRAMS

CSI’s Science on the Sound lecture series continues in February. Joe Hoyt, Maritime Archaeologist, NOAA’s Monitor National Marine Sanctuary and ECU alum will present “Battle of the Atlantic off the North Carolina Coast” February 21, 2019, at 6:00pm. The Science on the Sound series, held monthly, highlights research on coastal topics of interest to northeast North Carolina. Each of these programs is broadcast live here and on our Facebook page. After the broadcast, the programs can be found on our YouTube Channel.

ICP/CSI will partner with North Carolina Land of Water (NCLOW) to host a Star Party for the general public on February 5th from 6-9 p.m. at Jennette’s Pier in Nags Head. The event will feature interactive planetarium showings led by astronomer Brian Baker beginning at 6:00, 7:00 and 8:00 p.m. with children’s activities, stargazing, telescopes, and opportunities to explore the portable, indoor planetarium throughout the evening. This event is funded by North Carolina Sea Grant and the North Carolina Space Grant Program.

Dr. Lindsay Dubbs, CSI research scientist and UNC-CH Research Assistant Professor, co-authored a paper with her students on the environmental impacts of one of a variety of coastal energy sources, salinity gradient energy (SGE). SGE technology captures the energy released from the controlled mixing of waters of different salinities found naturally in estuarine systems or in other combinations of anthropogenic sources of brine and fresh waters. This paper highlights areas of concern and lack of knowledge related to implementing this technology, which can help guide environmental impact assessment and monitoring priorities of site managers.

An interdisciplinary team of East Carolina University (ECU) coastal scientists has been awarded rapid-response grant funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study exposure to and existence of contamination in private drinking water wells in Sampson and Duplin Counties following Hurricane Florence. The study will gauge residents’ perception of risk to their water supply from before to after the storm, identify steps they have taken to protect themselves from this perceived risk, and use water quality data to determine the degree to which their perceived risk matches actual contamination. The study team includes Dr. Jake Hochard, principal investigator (PI) and natural resource economist at ECU and the Coastal Studies Institute (CSI); Ariane Peralta, microbial ecologist (BIO); Randall Etheridge, ecological engineer (ENG, Center for Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering); and Jamie Kruse, economist and Director of the ECU Center for Natural Hazard Research. Read more HERE.

Mike Muglia, CSI research scientist, is part of team funded by DOE for next generation marine energy devices. The project, entitled “Device Design and Robust Periodic Motion Control of an Ocean Kite for Hydrokinetic Energy Harvesting,” will develop and prototype an ocean kite system and corresponding controller for harvesting marine hydrokinetic (MHK) energy resources that cannot be economically harvested through existing MHK devices. By exploiting periodic cross-current motion on a high lift/drag rigid kite design, the kite-based system will be capable of generating over an order of magnitude more power using the same amount of material as a stationary system (or, equivalently, the kite-based system will be able to generate the same amount of power using an order of magnitude less material). The project itself will focus on the hydrodynamic and dynamic modeling, model-based design refinement, control design, and progressive prototyping of the ocean kite design. Read more HERE.

ACADEMIC LIBRARY SERVICES

Do you have students interested in research in areas such as politics, public policy, law, education, criminal justice or sociology? A new student research award has been established, honoring Senator Robert Morgan’s legacy and raising awareness of his papers here at ECU. The $1,000 award will be granted to recognize excellence in student research. The award is open to undergraduate and graduate students. Submissions may be traditional papers or scholarly digital projects and must focus on material contained in the Robert Morgan Papers, in Joyner Library’s Special Collections. The Morgan Papers reflect his career in the legislative and executive branches of government and as a lawyer, as well as a member of the ECU Board of Trustees. They span topics including government, politics, law, special and higher education, history, public administration, sociology and criminal justice. The deadline for submission is May 15, 2019. For more details, click HERE. Please share this with your students and encourage them to submit work.

GRANTS AND CONTRACTS

December 2018

Award Title: High Pressure Liquid Chromatography two-day course

Principal Investigator: Jack Pender, Chemistry, College of Arts & Sciences

Sponsor: Pitt Community College

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Award Title: 2018 Hurricane Season: RAPID: Rural residents' self-protections to perceived and actual contamination risk in private drinking wells after Hurricane Florence

Principal Investigator: Jacob Hochard, Economics, College of Arts & Sciences

Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)

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Award Title: NCLR 2019: African American Literature

Principal Investigator: Margaret Bauer, English, College of Arts & Sciences

Sponsor: North Carolina Arts Council

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Award Title: 2018 Hurricane Season: RAPID : Are short-lived storm surge events the key sources of long-term saltwater intrusion in coastal aquifers impacted by tropical cyclone activity?

Principal Investigator: Alex Manda, Geology, College of Arts & Sciences

Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)

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Award Title: IUSE: EHR: Assessing Virtual Reality Field Experiences for Enhanced Learning in the Geosciences

Principal Investigator: Stephen Moysey, Geology, College of Arts & Sciences

Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)

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Award Title: Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Research Hub and Spoke Program

Principal Investigator: Jennifer McKinnon, History, College of Arts & Sciences

Sponsor: University of Wisconsin at Madison

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Award Title: The Role of Stigma in Partner Violence: A Social Psychological and Ecological Perspective

Principal Investigator: Heather Littleton, Psychology, College of Arts & Sciences

Sponsor: University of New Hampshire

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Award Title: Video Segments of CSI Research and Education Projects

Principal Investigator: Ronald McCord, Coastal Studies Institute, Academic Affairs

Sponsor: Dare County Government Education Television

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Award Title: ECU SAE Automotive Design

Principal Investigator: Tarek Abdel-Salam, Dean's Office, College of Engineering & Technology

Sponsor: North Carolina Space Grant Consortium (NC Space Grant)

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Award Title: Sun River Services / Wilson CC / PLC Training

Principal Investigator: Jimmy Lin, Technology Systems, College of Engineering & Technology

Sponsor: Wilson Community College

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Award Title: CITE # 486 Thermo-Fisher, Basic PLC, PCC

Principal Investigator: Jimmy Lin, Technology Systems, College of Engineering & Technology

Sponsor: Pitt Community College

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Award Title: North Carolina New Teacher Support Program. This is Z-Smith Reynolds funding allocation to the New Teacher Support Program for the 2018-2019 program year

Principal Investigator: Mark L'Esperance, Elementary & Middle Grades Education, College of Education

Sponsor: Z Smith Reynolds Foundation

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Award Title: NC NewMusic Initiative--Copland Performance Program (2018-2019)

Principal Investigator: Edward Jacobs, School of Music, College of Fine Arts & Communication

Sponsor: Aaron Copland Fund for Music

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Award Title: Tobacco Retailer Density: Meta-Analysis

Principal Investigator: Joseph Lee, Health Education & Promotion, College of Health & Human Performance

Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)

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Award Title: Preventing Lyme disease exposure among outdoor workers

Principal Investigator: Stephanie Richards, Health Education & Promotion, College of Health & Human Performance

Sponsor: University of Rhode Island

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Award Title: Tobacco Retailer Density: Meta-Analysis

Principal Investigator: Joseph Lee, Health Education & Promotion, College of Health & Human Performance

Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)

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Award Title: Region 10 Technical Assistance 2018-2019

Principal Investigator: Joseph Lee, Health Education & Promotion, College of Health & Human Performance

Sponsor: Pitt County Health Department

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Award Title: NC Higher Education AOD Coalition

Principal Investigator: Jennifer Matthews, Health Education & Promotion, College of Health & Human Performance

Sponsor: Wake Forest University School of Medicine

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Award Title: East Carolina Regional Training Center North Carolina Communities Initiative (NCCI): NC Behavioral Health Equity and Community Health

Principal Investigator: Jennifer Matthews, Health Education & Promotion, College of Health & Human Performance

Sponsor: Wake Forest University School of Medicine

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Award Title: Mosquito Identification Service II

Principal Investigator: Stephanie Richards, Health Education & Promotion, College of Health & Human Performance

Sponsor: Albemarle Regional Health Services

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Award Title: National Quality Improvement Center for Adoption and Guardianship Support and Preservation (QIC-AG) 2018-2019

Principal Investigator: Kevin White, Social Work, College of Health & Human Performance

Sponsor: University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee