ECU Contributor Archives

Third-year med student Noopur Doshi practices airway management in the Interprofessional Clinical Simulation Center.
Nov 20, 2018
  • Rob Spahr

IMPROVING MEDICAL EDUCATION

A handpicked group of the nation’s leading medical schools – of which ECU’s Brody School of Medicine is a founding member – will have extra time to partner on projects...

ECU is dedicated not just to educating its dental students via hours in clinical simulation labs but also to connecting them to the community for real-world experience and giving back through events like the inaugural ECU Smiles at the School of Dental Medicine community service learning center in Sylva on Thursday.
Nov 19, 2018
  • Spaine Stephens

SALUTES AND SMILES

For Lloyd Holland, walking into the East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine’s community service learning center in Sylva, N.C., felt like coming home all over again. Holland and about...

Anita Hill, law professor and women’s and civil rights advocate, spoke to a nearly full house in ECU’s Wright Auditorium on Nov. 15. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Nov 16, 2018
  • Lacey L. Gray

MOMENT OF A SOCIAL MOVEMENT

Anita Hill, law professor at Brandeis University and a women’s and civil rights advocate, was welcomed with a standing ovation at East Carolina University’s Wright Auditorium on the evening of...

Nov 15, 2018
  • ECU News Services

ECU hosts art sales, concerts to celebrate season

Highlights:  Nov. 29-Dec. 1 – School of Art and Design annual Holiday Art Sale Nov. 30-Dec. 1 – School of Art and Design annual Holiday Glass Sale Nov. 30-Dec. 2 –...

Nov 15, 2018
  • ECU News Services

ECU opens newly-named Dwight M. Holland Ceramics Classroom in the School of Art and Design

School of Art and Design students at East Carolina University now have access to a unique ceramics art teaching tool through a gift by former Asheboro art teacher and N.C....

ECU student Mila Bolash, left, portrays Edwin Drood and Drew Wells portrays John Jasper in
Nov 13, 2018
  • Bri Deel

‘THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD’

The East Carolina University School of Theatre and Dance is bringing the hilarious, interactive whodunit mystery musical,“The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” to the stage. The musical is based on an...

Dr. Gene Tranbarger, the first male president of the NCNA and an ECU faculty emeritus, speaks during the College of Nursing Diversity Day event on Nov. 1 as assistant professor Dr. Thompson Forbes and incoming American Nurses Association president Dr. Ernest Grant look on.
Nov 13, 2018
  • Natalie Sayewich

MEN IN NURSING

Why does diversity matter? This was the question that directed a conversation held recently at the East Carolina Heart Institute featuring trailblazers of the nursing profession sharing insights with current...

Nov 12, 2018
  • ECU News Services

ECU’s Brody School of Medicine celebrated as national leader in family medicine

No other medical school in North Carolina – and only one other in the nation – has produced a higher percentage of family physicians in the last decade than the...

Nov 06, 2018
  • ECU News Services

ECU launches microenterprise program

East Carolina University is launching an innovative new strategy to help revitalize communities in eastern North Carolina, turning to its students to develop and support new enterprises in the region....

Chancellor Cecil Staton honored and recognized philanthropy at ECU with his Chancellor’s Amethyst awards at a ceremony on Nov. 1 in Greenville.
Nov 05, 2018
  • Erin Ward

CHANCELLOR’S AMETHYST

At East Carolina University, there are several names on campus that are instantly recognizable. Jenkins and Minges are among them. Students and faculty know the Jenkins Fine Arts Building and...