2025 Research & Scholarship Awards
The annual Research & Scholarship Awards Ceremony honors the outstanding achievements of artists, scholars, researchers, and innovators at East Carolina University. Join us in celebrating the faculty whose research and creative endeavors are making a lasting impact in their fields, enriching the lives of their students, and shaping the future of our region and the world.
This year’s ceremony is sponsored in part by NCInnovation.
Event Details
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Main Campus Student Center, Ballroom C
501 E 10th St, Greenville, NC 27858
ECU News Story: Honoring innovation and discovery
Event Program
Recognition and Presentation of Awards
- Recognition of Research Administration
- Presentation of Order of the Anchor Society
- Presentation of Trendsetter Awards
- Recognition of Inventors
- Recognition of EOSA Cohort
- Presentation of Scholarship of Engagement Award
- Presentation of Five-Year Research and Creative Activity Award
- Presentation of Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity
View Ceremony Presentation (PDF)
Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Research & Creative Activity
Professor, Kinesiology
College of Health and Human Performance
Five-Year Research & Creative Activity
Associate Professor, Biology
Coastal Studies Institute
Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences
Professor, Biology
Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences
Annette Alligood
University Program Specialist, College of Health and Human Performance
Gaelle Deshayes
University Program Specialist and IACUC Director, Department of Comparative Medicine, Brody School of Medicine
US Patent # 12,220,404
Treatment and Management of Augmentation in Restless Legs Syndrome
Stefan Clemens
Physiology
US Patent # 12,106,392
Apparatus For Improving Appliant Selection Based on Performance Indices
Robert Todd Watkins
School of Dental Medicine
US Copyright # TX 9-376-326
“Temper”: A WBGT-based Heat stress App
Jo Anne Balanay
Health Education and Promotion
Sinan Sousan
Public Health
US Trademark # 98139128
TAR-PAMLICO BEC Blue Economy Corridor
Emily Yeager
Recreation Sciences
National Academy of Inventors:
New Senior Member Inductees
Kori Brewer
Emergency Medicine
Mark Mannie
Microbiology & Immunology
National Academy of Inventors:
In-Memoriam Member Induction
Andrew Stuart
Communication Sciences & Disorders
Joseph Kalinowski
Communication Sciences & Disorders
2024-2025 Engagement and Outreach Scholars Academy (EOSA) Cohort
Michael Daniels
School of Social Work
Sarah Maness
Health Education and Promotion
Lindsey Oakes
Recreation Sciences
Order of the Anchor Society
This is a new recognition highlighting those with awards totaling $1M or more in a single fiscal year.
Family Medicine
Kinesiology
Addictions and Rehabilitation Studies
Engineering
Advanced Nursing Practice and Education
Pediatrics
Health Education and Promotion
Internal Medicine
Integrated Coastal Programs
Interdisciplinary Professions
Family Medicine
Parking and Transportation
Advanced Nursing Practice and Education
Human Development and Family Science
Interdisciplinary Professions
Educational Leadership
Kinesiology
Biology
Public Health
Coastal Studies
Public Health
Pediatrics
Internal Medicine
Pediatrics
Educational Leadership
Foundation Sciences
Water Resources Center
Coastal Studies
Coastal Studies
Technology Systems
Biology
Public Health
Engineering
Interdisciplinary Professions
Internal Medicine
Microbiology and Immunology
Center for Telepsychiatry and e-Behavioral Health
Psychology
Internal Medicine
Surgery
Chemistry
Health Education and Promotion
Office for Faculty Excellence
Foundation Sciences
Internal Medicine
Trendsetter Award Winners
Early Achievement
Ciprian Popoviciu
Technology Systems
Chandra Speight
Advanced Nursing Practice & Education
Swati Surkar
Physical Therapy
Mid-Career Achievement
Loni Crumb
Interdisciplinary Professions
Karlene Cunningham
Psychiatry
Behavioral Medicine
Robert Hughes
Chemistry
Eminent Achievement
Yong-Qing Li
Physics
Linda May
Kinesiology
Samuel Sears
Psychology
*The 2025 Trendsetter Award recipients were announced during the awards ceremony.
