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ECSU Student-Athletes Celebrate ‘Favorite Faculty and Staff’ at Second Annual Faculty and Staff Appreciation Night
Robert Kelly-Goss March 5, 2020
Elizabeth City State University’s athletics department hosted its second Faculty and Staff Appreciation Night during the men and women’s basketball games against Bowie State University on Feb. 12. Before each match-up, student athletes honored their favorite faculty and staff. “Our...

Eight ECSU Students Attend National Transportation Conference
Robert Kelly-Goss February 24, 2020
ECSU Daniel Ashley, Heidi Mollenkopf, Tera Banks, Tyler McCoy, Tammie Simmons, William Helms, and Brenden Rawls, joined dean of the school of science, aviation, health, and technology, Dr. Kuldeep Rawat at the Transportation Research Board conference in Washington D.C. in...


ECSU Drone Lab Partners with Audubon North Carolina for Marsh Ecosystem Research in Currituck Sound
Robert Kelly-Goss February 21, 2020
Elizabeth City State University’s drone technology team is partnering with the Audubon Society to survey Pine Island in the Currituck Sound, along North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Using the university’s drones, experts and program students, surveys of the island’s flora will...

ECSU Forms Education Taskforce with Area School Districts
Robert Kelly-Goss February 10, 2020
Elizabeth City State University’s Department of Education has formed an education taskforce to determine how to better prepare the next generation of teachers. The first taskforce meeting will be held Thursday, Feb. 13, according to ECSU’s director of teacher education,...


Watch News 3 WTKR’s Report on ECSU’s Hurricane and Mental Health Research
Robert Kelly-Goss February 5, 2020
An Elizabeth City State University research team is studying the effects of hurricanes on mental health throughout the coastal North Carolina region, and Dr. Kulwinder Kaur has been awarded a $50,000 grant for that study, leading Hampton Roads News 3,...

ECSU Examines Hurricane Effects on Mental Health with Dept. of Homeland Security Research Grant Award
Robert Kelly-Goss February 3, 2020
Dr. Kulwinder Kaur An Elizabeth City State University research team is studying the effects of hurricanes on mental health throughout the coastal North Carolina region, and Dr. Kulwinder Kaur has been awarded a $50,000 grant for that study. The Department...


ECSU Visual Arts Professors Spend Holidays Teaching in China
Robert Kelly-Goss January 27, 2020
ECSU visual arts professor, Dr. Eric Luchian, center, stands with his students at the Shanqui Normal University in Shangqui, China. Dr. Luchian and visual arts professor John Stiles taught in China for two weeks over the holiday break. Visual arts...

ECSU Awarded Charitable Trust Grant for Medicaid Research
Robert Kelly-Goss January 23, 2020
Elizabeth City State University along with university professor, Dr. Anthony Emekalam, has been awarded $184,000 by the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust for the Medicaid Transition Evaluation for Eastern North Carolina, also known as the ECSU MEDITEEN project. According to...


Qatar University Awards More Than $200,000 Grant to ECSU for Renewable Energy Research
Robert Kelly-Goss January 16, 2020
Dr. Bijandra Kumar Elizabeth City State University has been awarded a $207,600 grant from Qatar University for professor of technology, Dr. Bijandra Kumar’s work studying inexpensive and efficient plant carbon dioxide conversion to fuel. According to Dr. Kumar, plants convert...

ECSU Kinesiology Professor Named Southern District University Health Educator of the Year
Robert Kelly-Goss December 18, 2019
Elizabeth City State University associate professor of kinesiology, Dr. Kacey DiGiacinto, has been named the Southern District University Health Educator of the Year. Dr. DiGiacinto was contacted by the executive director of the Virginia Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation,...