2019 End of Year Research Report
It’s with great pleasure that I share the exciting news that 2018-19 was the most productive, and by many measures, the most successful year regarding research, innovation and creative activities in ECU history. In fact, last fiscal year, we achieved all-time research records in multiple categories, including total sponsored awards, research awards and submitted proposals.
Growth in research was identified as a strategy for increasing revenue through the 2015 Fiscal Sustainability Initiative and was included as a top priority in subsequent ECU and UNC System strategic plans for our university.
The continued growth of research and creative activities at ECU is inspiring and is a result of the hard work accomplished by our faculty, student researchers, innovators, and dedicated professional staff and administrators who support these programs.
REDE will continue to report on important milestones, including the National Science Foundation’s annual Higher Education Research and Development Survey rankings. Your continued efforts to grow research and creative activities have important and lasting effects on the well-being of our region, further enhancing the reputation of our university. Most importantly, you’re helping better prepare our students for success both in the classroom and after graduation. Thank you for all that you do!
Dr. Jay Golden, Vice Chancellor for REDE and Professor of Engineering
FY2019: $129,039,569
FY2018: $97,246,000
33% Annual Growth
Increased $16M
76% Annual Growth
Increased $9.1M
99% Annual Growth
622 Submitted Proposals
21% Annual Growth
$232,275,248 in Total Value
14.5% Annual Growth
Unit | FY 2018 | FY 2019 | $ Growth |
Brody School of Medicine | $10,042,826 | $15,079,808 | $5,036,982 |
Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences | $4,224,442 | $7,416,884 | $3,192,442 |
College of Education | $1,656,270 | $4,745,639 | $3,089,369 |
Integrated Coastal Programs | $0 | $1,928,172 | $1,928,172 |
College of Allied Health Sciences | $571,799 | $1,888,970 | $1,317,171 |
College of Nursing | $72,604 | $1,060,883 | $988,279 |
School of Dental Medicine | $100,269 | $1,060,431 | $960,162 |
College of Health and Human Performance | $2,016,851 | $2,935,758 | $918,907 |
College of Business | $0 | $357,394 | $357,394 |
College of Engineering and Technology | $589,652 | $946,137 | $356,485 |
College of Fine Arts and Communication | $20,000 | $7,267 | -$12,733 |
Unit | FY 2018 | FY 2019 | Percentage Growth |
| Academic Affairs | $10,578,437 | $18,336,251 | 73.34% |
| Health Sciences | $10,787,498 | $19,090,092 | 76.96% |
F&A Awarded
FY2019: $9,821,301
FY2018: $6,375,833
54% Annual Growth
FACULTY STARTUP PACKAGESIn 2019, REDE supported 86 faculty startup packages, up 10.2% from 2018. This provided an investment of $4.3M, up 12% from the previous year. These funds support our new faculty in developing their labs and equipment, as well as providing faculty and student research support.
INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH CLUSTERSSeveral of our pan-university research clusters increased their activities, membership and research productivity in FY2019. REDE supported efforts by the clusters to further engage faculty, students and industry, and seeded promising research ideas through funding support.
RESEARCH AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIESF&A supports faculty senate campus-wide programs, which in FY2019, provided funding to faculty in the arts, humanities, natural sciences and the social sciences.
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCHF&A directly supports undergraduate student research. In FY2019, ECU was able to provide a 36.5% increase in UG research support from the prior year. Our goal is for ECU to graduate the most students per year with mentored research experiences in the UNC System.
Postdoctoral Programs Conferences • Research Field Sites • Travel Awards • Faculty Professional Development
FELLOWSHIPS
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- Dr. Baohong Zhang, Biology
National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow
- Dr. Andrew Stuart, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
- Dr. Alex Manda, Geological Sciences
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship
- Dr. Rebecca Asch, Biology
Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies Scholars & Society Fellowship
- Dr. Helena Feder, English
Yale University Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition Fellowship
- Dr. Karin Zipf, History
AAAS Judicial Branch Fellowship
- Dr. Mamadi Corra, Sociology
American Academy of Arts and Letters Goddard Lieberson Fellowship in Music
- Dr. Travis Alford, Theory, Composition and Musicology
National Academy of Kinesiology Fellow
- Dr. Paul DeVita, Kinesiology
- Dr. Joseph Houmard, Kinesiology
American Heart Association Cardiovascular and Stroke Nursing Council
- Dr. Linda Bolin, Nursing
American Dental Education Association Fellowship
- Dr. Paul Lindauer, Surgical Sciences
American Board of Dental Public Health Diplomate
- Dr. Mark Moss, Foundational Sciences
American Board of Orofacial Pain Diplomate
- Dr. Amna Hasan, Surgical Sciences
Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program
- Dr. Crystal Chambers, Educational Leadership
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION PROGRAM DIRECTOR APPOINTMENT
- Dr. Chris Balakrishnan, Biology
UNESCO PROGRAM IN MARITIME STUDIES
- ECU’s Maritime Studies program was invited and joined UNESCO’s prestigious research and education program for underwater archaeology.
CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY
- Dr. Jamie DeWitt, Pharmacology and Toxicology
NEW AGENCY BOARD APPOINTMENTS
- Dr. Ronny Bell, Chair for NIH grant review panels
- Dr. Joseph Houmard, Chair of NIH study section clinical and integrative diabetes and obesity panel
- Dr. Reide Corbett, Integrated Coastal Programs, NOAA’s North Carolina Sentinel Site Cooperative Management Team
- Dr. Cristina Richie, Bioethics, Founded the NC Unit of UNESCO and Chair of the Bioethics Steering Committee
- Dr. Stephen Russ Price, BSOM, President-elect International Society of Renal Nutrition and Metabolism
EARLY CAREER AWARDS
NSF CAREER
- Dr. Ariane Peralta, Biology
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education Early Career Fellowship
- Dr. Jacob Hochard, Economics
BOOKS
- Dr. Edmund Wall, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Foundation for a Natural Morality: A Deductive Approach for Defending and Developing a Moral Theory
- Dr. Christopher Oakley, History, New South Indians: Tribal Economics and the Eastern Band of Cherokee in the Twentieth Century
ARTS
- Dr. Edward Jacobs, Theory, Composition and Musicology, completed “Anima/Animus” for solo marimba and “Qualia” for five trumpets, published by ACA
- Dr. Cynthia Bickley-Green, Art Education, Yellow Miss painting, U.S. Department of State Art in Embassies Program
STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLARS
- Emory Wellman, Biology, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- Shawna McMillin, Kinesiology, NIH F-31 Fellowship
- Katelyn Kotlarek, Communication Sciences and Disorders, NIH F-31 Fellowship
- Jocelyn Bayles, Honors College, Nutrition and Hispanic Studies, Truman Scholar finalist
- Suja Davis, Nursing, received the top student abstract Biobehavioral Research Interest Group, Southern Nursing Research Society
- Shelby Powers, Physiology, best poster award,
American Urological Association - Omar Glover, Dental Medicine, selected to participate in the NIH Medical Research Scholars (MRS) program; one of only two dental students to be invited
- Dr. Samantha McDonald, Dental Medicine Foundational Sciences, awarded an American Association of University Women (AAUW) Postdoctoral Fellowship