2024 Research & Scholarship Awards

The annual Research & Scholarship Awards recognize excellence among artists, scholars, researchers and inventors at East Carolina University. Our faculty’s research and creative activities impact their field, their students, the region and the world.

 

Event Details


Tuesday, April 2, 2024
5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Harvey Banquet Hall at the Murphy Center
660 Ficklen Dr, Greenville, NC 27858

 

Event Program


Welcome
Robin Coger, Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

Remarks
Sharon Paynter, Acting Chief Research and Engagement Officer

Recognition and Presentation of Awards

  • Recognition of Research Administration
  • Presentation of Trendsetter Awards
  • Presentation of SPARC Awards
  • Recognition of EOSA Cohort
  • Presentation of Scholarship of Engagement Award
  • Recognition of Inventors
  • Presentation of Five-Year Research and Creative Activity Award
  • Presentation of Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity

Closing Remarks
Robin Coger, Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs

View the ceremony slideshow. (PDF)

 

Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Research & Creative Activity


Dr. Xiaoping Pan
Professor, Biology
Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences

 

Five-Year Research & Creative Activity


Dr. Christine Habeeb
Assistant Professor, Kinesiology
College of Health and Human Performance

 

Scholarship of Engagement 

Dr. Kristen Cuthrell
Professor, Rural Education Institute
College of Education
Excellence in Research Administration

Jessica Miller
CON and CAHS Research Administrative Hub Director
and Pre-Award Grant Manager

Carlyle Rogers
Director of Licensing & Commercialization

University Inventors 

US Patent 11,610,170
Systems, Methods, and Computer Program Products for Generating a Normalized Assessment

US Patent 11,676,232
Apparatus For Improving Applicant Selection Based on Performance Indices

Robert Todd Watkins
School of Dental Medicine

 

US Patent 11,647,889
Near-Infrared Fluorescence Imaging for Blood Flow and Perfusion Visualization and Related Systems and Computer Program Products

Xin-Hua Hu
Physics

Kenneth Jacobs
Physics

 

US Patent 11,925,635
Methods and Compositions for Maintaining Opioid Efficacy in the Treatment of Pain

Kori Brewer
Emergency Medicine

Stefan Clemens
Physiology

 

US Copyright Ref TX0009293654
Malkin Gambling-Motivated Crime Diversion Checklist

Michelle Malkin
Criminal Justice & Criminology

 

Senior National Association of Inventors Inductees

Rukiyah Van Dross-Anderson
Pharmacology & Toxicology

Stefan Clemens
Physiology

 

2023-2024 Engagement and Outreach Scholars Academy (EOSA) Cohort


Carrie Bergeson
Human Development and Family Science

Yilei Huang
Construction Management

Eric Wade
Coastal Studies

Tianjiao Zhao
Construction Management

 

Sponsored Activities and Research Catalyst (SPARC) Award Winners


John Farrow
Microbiology and Immunology

Ted Graber
Physical Therapy

Michael (Drew) Honaker
Surgery

Misun Hur
Geography, Planning, and Environment

Jinkun Lee
Engineering

Susan McRae
Biology

Adam Offenbacher
Chemistry

Anne Spuches
Chemistry

 

Trendsetter Award Winners


Early Achievement

Kawanna Bright
Interdisciplinary Professions

Michelle Malkin
Criminal Justice and Criminology

Mid-Career

Hanan Elgendy
General Dentistry

Abby Schwartz
Social Work

Zhen Zhu
Engineering

 

Eminent Achievement

Margaret Bauer
English

Sy Saeed
Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine

*The 2024 Trendsetter Award recipients were announced during the awards ceremony.

 


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