Record #:

25842

Author(s):

Not Given

Abstract:

East Carolina University will house the Chapel Hill-based Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) database designed to store information about the region’s coastal areas. The project provides research about human systems and physical processes through collaboration and high performance computing and visualization.

Source:

Edge (NoCar LD 1741 E44 E33), Vol. Issue , Spring 2007, p6 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Natural disasters--Planning; Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)

Record #:

25843

Author(s):

Lazure, Erica Plouffe

Abstract:

Since arriving at East Carolina University, Dr. Jamie Kruse, professor of economics and director of the Thomas Harriot Center for Natural Hazards Research and the RENCI@ECU Center for Coastal Systems Informatics and Modeling, has built an interdisciplinary program on natural hazards research, and shown students how to approximate and model the uncertainty of disasters.

Source:

Edge (NoCar LD 1741 E44 E33), Vol. Issue , Spring 2007, p8-11, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Natural disasters; Economics

Record #:

25844

Author(s):

Boyd, Doug

Abstract:

Researchers at the East Carolina Heart Institute are working on some varied and groundbreaking studies for eastern North Carolina. Examples include blood vessel disease, heart rhythm and failure, nanoparticles, air pollution’s role in heart attacks, and heart damage repair.

Source:

Edge (NoCar LD 1741 E44 E33), Vol. Issue , Spring 2007, p12-15, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

East Carolina University--Heart Institute

Record #:

25845

Author(s):

Boyd, Doug

Abstract:

After Hurricane Floyd, the small town of Princeville, North Carolina decided to rebuild what had been lost, and keep the oldest African American town in the United States alive. To help with telling the story of Princeville, East Carolina graduate Dazzala Knight and ECU assistant professor of art, Dr. Mark Malley, have enlisted other local artists to produce a large mural depicting the founding and evolution of Princeville.

Source:

Edge (NoCar LD 1741 E44 E33), Vol. Issue , Spring 2007, p16-21, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Mural painting and decoration; Princeville--History; Artists--Princeville

Record #:

25846

Author(s):

Not Given

Abstract:

Doctors, at the East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine, in physiology and emergency medicine have shown some success in using stem cells to restore sensory function and reduce pain after spinal cord injuries in mice.

Source:

Edge (NoCar LD 1741 E44 E33), Vol. Issue , Spring 2007, p24-25 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Stem cell research; East Carolina University. Brody School of Medicine