Brody School of Medicine names new chair of pediatrics
The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University has named a new chair for the Department of Pediatrics. ECU neonatologist Dr. Jason Higginson assumed the role June 1. Since...
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TARGETED TREATMENT
Physicians at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine are the first in the mid-Atlantic region to offer a new treatment option for pancreatic cancer. The treatment involves the use...
Student: Jim Eubanks
Jim Eubanks is passionate about helping people who suffer from the No. 1 cause of disability worldwide: spine-related disorders. The rising third-year medical student entered the Brody School of Medicine...
Bassman Honors Thesis Award winner announced
Hannah G. Woolard is the winner of the 2015-2016 Michael F. Bassman Honors Thesis Award, which recognizes students in East Carolina University’s Honors College for excellence in research and writing....
PIRATE READ
Incoming East Carolina University students will explore complex themes of racial injustice before even stepping foot into a classroom with this year’s Pirate Read selection. Bryan Stevenson’s memoir “Just Mercy”...
ECU awards inaugural Humanities Scholarship
East Carolina University sophomore Garrett Yarbrough, a soon-to-be 18-year-old from LaGrange, NC, is the inaugural recipient of the Humanities Scholar Program and will receive an annual $3,000 scholarship through his...
WHERE THERE’S SMOKE
An East Carolina University researcher and colleagues at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have found broad support for raising the minimum age for tobacco sales in North...
‘GREAT BENEFIT’
A new training course and flight simulator used by U.S. Army and Air Force cadets at East Carolina University is helping develop the nation's future military leaders. Unique among schools...
SERVING THOSE WHO SERVE
The accolades have been numerous - East Carolina University is recognized nationally as a university dedicated to those who have served in the Armed Forces. And for the College of...
OCEAN OUTREACH
For years, beachgoers have learned to “break the grip of the rip” by swimming parallel to shore to escape currents pulling them out to sea. Now a partnership of researchers,...