Health and Human Performance Archives

Darius Lawton has thrived with research opportunities in the College of Health and Human Performance. (Photos by Steven Mantilla)
Apr 26, 2024
  • Ronnie Woodward

Darius Lawton, Sports Studies

STATISTICS Name: Darius Lawton College: Health and Human Performance Major: Sports Studies  Age: 21 Classification/Year: Senior Hometown: Norfolk, Virginia Hobbies/interests: Shopping, Playing and watching basketball and football, playing videogames, making...

Brandon Damgaard, a member of ECU’s Army ROTC and the North Carolina Army National Guard, will see the first of his educational goals accomplished when he graduates this Friday with degrees in biochemistry, biology, chemistry and physics. (Photo by Rhett Butler)
Apr 26, 2024
  • Lacey L. Gray

Brandon Damgaard, Biology, Physics, Chemistry and Biochemistry

STATISTICS Name: Brandon Damgaard College: Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Health and Human Performance Major: B.S. in Biology, B.S. in Physics, B.S. in Biochemistry, and...

Apr 23, 2024
  • Crystal Baity

Faculty honored for passion and excellence with annual teaching awards

On the eve of the last day of class, East Carolina University recognized the hard work of its faculty members at the 2023-24 University Teaching Awards ceremony Monday in the...

Researchers examine a baby during an appointment on campus as part of prenatal exercise research at East Carolina University. (ECU News Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Apr 17, 2024
  • Ronnie Woodward

NIH grant supports additional baby metabolism research

A five-year, $2.5 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health will help East Carolina University faculty members continue research on ways to curb generational obesity. The project, led...

Apr 15, 2024
  • Crystal Baity

Participants will Storm the Stadium in ultimate scholarship fundraising challenge

Storm the Stadium, described as the most challenging stair run in eastern North Carolina, is set for 8 a.m. Saturday at East Carolina University’s Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium. The event raises funds...

Apr 12, 2024
  • ECU News Services

Board of Trustees appoints deans for Health and Human Performance, Graduate School

In its final meeting of the 2023-24 academic year, East Carolina University’s Board of Trustees looked to the future with the appointment of two college deans. The board approved Dr....

Dr. Jan Lewis takes notes as ECU College of Nursing faculty discuss the implementation of artificial intelligence into ECU’s academic and administrative activities. (ECU photos)
Apr 11, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel
  • Ronnie Woodward

ECU academic community studies AI integration into university operations

East Carolina University has embarked on a groundbreaking study to determine how institutions of higher education can incorporate artificial intelligence into teaching, research and administrative activities to keep pace with...

Apr 03, 2024
  • Ronnie Woodward

Exchanging ideas in Peru through sports

Faculty, students and alumni from East Carolina University traveled to Peru in March, embracing a unique opportunity to impact people with and without intellectual disabilities as part of the 2024...

Apr 01, 2024
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Scholarship continues alumnae’s community engagement

Students seeking a degree in social work at East Carolina University could find their experience enhanced by a scholarship honoring the memory of Kristian “Krissy” Monet Richardson ’21. The Krissy...

East Carolina soccer players participate in shooting tests, while wearing GPS tracking vests, as College of Health and Human Performance undergraduate research assistant Lauren McCurdy watches and records data. (Photos by Rhett Butler)
Mar 11, 2024
  • Ronnie Woodward

PEAK PERFORMANCE

Research and sports science have taken Taylor Kinney from studying shoulder biomechanics at a baseball pitching lab in Omaha, Nebraska, and presenting at the 2023 Major League Baseball winter meetings...