Health and Human Performance Archives

Sep 17, 2024
  • Kim Tilghman

ECU senior gains skills and finds new career goal through internship

Yanelis Romero is full of enthusiasm and energy — great qualities for a program assistant working with kids. Her energy is reflected in her resume as well. Originally from Puerto...

Sep 12, 2024
  • Lacey L. Gray

ECU professor attends leadership symposium, forges bonds between ECU ROTC, criminal justice

Dr. Heidi Bonner, East Carolina University professor and chair of the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, had the unique opportunity to participate in the United States Army Cadet Summer...

Sep 06, 2024
  • Ronnie Woodward

Living Learning Communities foster forever bonds

Ballard Hall can be a place to learn about the healthy and friendly rivalry between the East Carolina University Air Force ROTC and Army ROTC programs. Cadets from both units...

Paige Day conducted research on summer rainfall at the Coastal Studies Institute on the ECU Outer Banks Campus. (Contributed photo)
Sep 04, 2024
  • Steven Grandy

Pirates make most of summer experiences

Many East Carolina University students spent their summers as interns, gaining real-world experience in their respective fields. These four Pirates played music, studied rainfall, wrote press releases and kept North...

Aug 27, 2024
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Support grows for ECU’s mission, strategic priorities in FY ’24

In a wave of new gifts and increased participation, donors contributed nearly $56.7 million in philanthropic support for East Carolina University in 2023-24. The fundraising total includes $24.4 million for main campus...

Aug 21, 2024
  • Steven Grandy

Summer Study Abroad

East Carolina University students took advantage of study abroad opportunities this summer. They took solo journeys, developed friendships, learned from the top designers and fine-tuned their voice while visiting destinations...

Aug 21, 2024
  • Steven Grandy

Tuscan travelers

A birthday to remember One could say that international travel runs in Kendall Pixley’s blood. Pixley, a public health and biology major from Indian Trail, is the daughter of a...

Aug 12, 2024
  • Ronnie Woodward

Tech-laden assessment program preps first responders

Brandon Locklear, a captain with City of Greenville Fire/Rescue, has benefited for decades from the East Carolina University cardiovascular health assessment program. Locklear can recall when earlier versions measured body...

Aug 06, 2024
  • Ronnie Woodward

ECU researchers guide heat stress app development

East Carolina University is acknowledged in the settings of an American Industrial Hygiene Association heat stress mobile app, which uses weather forecasts and emphasizes wet bulb globe temperature as the...

Emma Dillon, a fashion merchandising and consumer studies major, has worked with the Professionally Purple Closet on campus. (Photos by Rhett Butler)
Jul 19, 2024
  • Crystal Baity

Student: Emma Dillon

East Carolina University senior Emma Dillon has wanted to work in the fashion industry since she was younger. She took apparel classes in high school after being inspired by a...