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Apr 10, 2023
  • Ariane Peralta

Elizabeth LaFave wins 2023 Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge!!!

Congratulations to Elizabeth LaFave, IDPBBC-Chemistry Doctoral Candidate and Entrepreneur, for winning the ECU College of Business Pirate Entrepreneurship Challenge! LaFave's company Invenire receives $15,000 seed money! In Elizabeth's words, "Invenire aims...

Apr 08, 2023
  • Ariane Peralta

Dr. Chris Moore receives dissertation award!!!

Congratulations to recent graduate Dr. Chris Moore, who recently received the 2023 ECU Dissertation Award for dissertation entitled “Trophically transmitted parasites as ‘cross-taxon surrogates’ of biodiversity in coastal environments. Congrats,...

Apr 08, 2023
  • Ariane Peralta

Carter Stancil awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!!!

Congratulations to Carter Stancil, who was awarded a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship! More about Carter's doctoral research project HERE! Congrats, Carter!!!!!

Nov 17, 2022
  • Ariane Peralta

Robert Driver awarded NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology!!!

Congratulations to Robert Driver, who was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship in Biology!   Robert will work in the lab of Dr. Hiro Matsunami at Duke University to match...

Aug 08, 2022
  • Ariane Peralta

Welcome IDPBBC Graduate Student 2022 cohort!

Benjamin Brisard (mentor: Dr. Cameron Schmidt): primary research area - cellular bioenergetics Kylie Cashwell (mentor: Dr. Li Yang): primary research area - cancer biology Kendall Clerici (mentor: Dr. Adam Offenbacher):...

Jul 11, 2022
  • Ariane Peralta

Andrew McMains awarded 2022 North Carolina Coastal Research Fellowship

Congratulations, Andrew! Andrew McMains studies fish communities using high resolution acoustic imaging approaches. Andrew's work will shed light on the consequences of dredging on fish communities inhabiting waters in Beaufort...

Jul 11, 2022
  • Ariane Peralta

Robert Driver publishes multiple papers and awarded multiple grants

Congratulations to Robert Driver - for all the recent publications and grants awarded!!! New paper out in PNAS with Chris Balakrishnan on manakin displays (*-equal contribution): Pease, J.B.*, Driver, R.J.*,...

Jul 11, 2022
  • Ariane Peralta

Naomi Jainarine recognized for presentation at American Fisheries Society Tidewater Conference

Naomi Jainarine (third from the right), a PhD student in the Asch Lab, won second place for the best poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Tidewater Chapter of...

Jul 11, 2022
  • Ariane Peralta

Anna Ward will serve as Senator in the Graduate and Professional Student Senate

Congratulations, Anna! Anna Ward selected as a Senator in the ECU Graduate and Professional Student Senate. Anna will be advocating for fellow graduate students in this important governance role.

Aug 24, 2021
  • Ariane Peralta

Recent graduate Dr. Edward Sanderlin receives ECU dissertation award

Congratulations to Edward Sanderlin, PhD (IDPBBC-Biomedicine) for receiving the East Carolina University 2020 Dissertation Award! Dr. Sanderlin's dissertation is entitled The Functional Roles of pH-Sensing G Protein-Coupled Receptors in Intestinal...