CONCUSSION AND RECOVERY
Researchers in the Department of Kinesiology at East Carolina University are using virtual reality to study balance control in concussion and recovery. Concussions are most often caused by a blow...
Health and Human Performance Archives
Student: Israel Mendez
Israel Mendez is a senior public health major with a concentration in community health at East Carolina University. He grew up in Morganton and is the oldest of 10 children....
HHP honors outgoing Dean Glen Gilbert
Family, friends, faculty and staff from the College of Health and Human Performance and across East Carolina University and beyond celebrated Glen Gilbert’s service to ECU at a ceremony Dec....
MANNERS RULE
An East Carolina University course is reinforcing table manners, business dress and effective communication as students prepare for spring internships and graduation. Kelli Russell, instructor in the College of Health...
MAJOR LEAGUE
As the Houston Astros clinched a victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in a home run happy Game 5 of the World Series on Oct. 29, East Carolina University alumnus Scott...
RIGHT OF LINE
East Carolina University’s Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Detachment 600 has been honored as one of the best in the nation. The group has received the Right of...
Talking to children about recent tragedies
For weeks, social media feeds and televisions have been filled with harrowing stories of survival from hurricanes, floods and gun violence in the United States. Exposure to these stories may...
ECU Club Baseball’s Tanner Duncan signs contract with MLB’s Houston Astros
Tanner Duncan has been on a whirlwind ride during the month of June. The ECU Pirate has experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. On June 1, Tanner...
ECU professor to chair national NIH study section
Dr. Joseph Houmard, the LeRoy T. Walker Distinguished Professor in kinesiology at East Carolina University, will serve as chairperson of the Clinical and Integrative Diabetes and Obesity study section for the...
Graduate student receives national kinesiology award
East Carolina University graduate student Daniel Kuhman has received the 2017 American Kinesiology Association National Master’s Scholar Award. Kuhman is a graduate assistant in ECU’s Biomechanics Laboratory in the Department...