Health and Human Performance Archives

Mar 17, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall
  • Ronnie Woodward

Caswell’s $280,000 gift impacts students, families

An internship at Caswell Development Center has fueled recreational therapy major Jordan Cianci’s passion to work with adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Social work major Niki Cobb became emotional...

A man in blue shirt stands in front of a building, proudly smiling.
Mar 13, 2025
  • Kim Tilghman

Award Honors a Lifetime of Achievement

Dr. Joseph (Joe) A. Houmard, professor of kinesiology in East Carolina University’s College of Health and Human Performance, has been recognized with the Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Research...

Two women, dressed in purple scrubs, hold the side of a cake beneath the face of a man seated between them.
Mar 07, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Donor support burns brightly during Pirate Nation Gives

More than 2,300 alumni, friends and students took the cake to support East Carolina University during Pirate Nation Gives on March 5. Gifts came from far away and right in...

Mar 04, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

ECU set to celebrate ninth day of giving Wednesday

Students on the East Carolina University Club Volleyball team intend to compete in nationals this year in Phoenix, Arizona. They are counting on donations and bonus money earned during Pirate...

Mar 03, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Pirate Nation Gives offers many ways to support university

Scan the code and give to an area of East Carolina University that is important to you. Using the QR code embedded on signs around campus and seen in this...

Group smiling together with foliage decoration in background.
Feb 27, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

Lamson awarded for impact, excellence in public service

RALEIGH — Dr. Angela Lamson had a natural and definitive response to the phone call she received informing her she won the 2024 Governor James E. Holshouser, Jr. Award for...

Feb 12, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

Fifty years of enhancing recreational therapy

East Carolina University is serving as a vibrant hub for National Recreational Therapy Month in February. On the state level, ECU will host the North Carolina Recreational Therapy Association’s Student-Professionals...

A young woman in a brown sweater smiles as she stands next to an older woman with a black scarf and brown sweater to get their picture made against a purple background. At right, a person holds a cell phone up to take the picture.
Jan 31, 2025
  • Ken Buday

ECU Excels celebrates successes of freshmen, transfer students

Kinley Nance showed up at East Carolina University in the fall not knowing what to expect. The freshman from Chadbourn was nearly three hours from home, living on her own...

Jan 29, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Heath care students learn to learn from one another

In the 1980s, health care educators began to rethink how health sciences students, including future doctors, nurses, physical therapists and their allied health peers, should learn their jobs. Interprofessional education,...

Jan 28, 2025
  • Lacey L. Gray

Spanish for medical careers: Students shadow professionals at ECU Health

East Carolina University aspires to prepare students with the knowledge, skills and values to succeed in a global, multicultural society. In the fall, students in the Spanish for Health Professions...