Design for Disability initiative kicked off with a kickball game
Judy Byrd has three goals. “I want every child to be included in their PE class. I want every child to have the opportunity to learn how to play sports....
Health and Human Performance Archives
HEALTHY FARMWORKERS
Heat-related illnesses, pesticide exposure and other occupational hazards face migrant and seasonal farmworkers each day. But a new three-year, $427,551 health disparities grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National...
ENJOYING WATER SPORTS
Adapting to a new way of life is something Brent Carpenter of Greenville has had to do for the past decade and a half. He was once an avid wakeboarder;...
Student: Irma Lappin
East Carolina University senior Irma Lappin does more each day than the typical college student. Lappin, originally from Mexico, came to the United States at the age of 6 and...
DESIGN MATTERS
East Carolina University researchers hope their findings on consumers’ views of packaging design will impact the FDA’s review of a new heated tobacco product expected to be sold in the...
HEELING IS HEALING
Brent Carpenter says he sometimes feels like a duck out of water, but research at East Carolina University is helping him get back in his element by learning to sail....
Pecheles Automotive Group sponsors ECU HHP’s Winner’s Circle Breakfast for 15th Year
Anna Horzempa could not continue her education at East Carolina University without financial support from scholarships. “Anyone can face circumstances that may change their financial need,” Horzempa told the audience...
College of Health and Human Performance honors 2019 Wall of Fame inductees
Three people were inducted on April 12 to the East Carolina University College of Health and Human Performance Marvin and Joyce Johnson Wall of Fame. The inductees were Sharon Ballard,...
RETOOLING CHRISTENBURY GYM
An interior design class at East Carolina University has been working this semester on a project close to home: Christenbury Memorial Gym The students have created conceptual designs for potential...
Alumna honored for early career achievement
Catherine Parker received the inaugural Public Health Early Career Alumni Achievement Award during a College of Health and Human Performance’s National Public Health Week event on April 4. Just six...