Health and Human Performance Archives

Oct 04, 2011

'Aging in place' offers benefits for aging population and for job-seekers

By Peggy Novotny East Carolina University researchers are calling for more awareness and more dedicated professionals who will develop options to allow aging Americans to spend their later years in...

Oct 04, 2011

Study examines effectiveness of electronic health messaging

  By Kathy Muse East Carolina University health education professor Dr. Alice Richman received a Merck & Company grant of $115,000 to study whether electronic reminders and educational messages might...

Sep 22, 2011

‘Skeeters’: They’re big. They’re biting.

In eastern North Carolina, they're most likely called "Skeeters," but regardless of the name, mosquito populations surge after rains like those brought by Hurricane Irene and the rain expected to...

Sep 20, 2011

Despite Rain, Roadside Cleanup Volunteers Shine

  Gray skies and day-long drizzle did not deter volunteers from joining a roadside cleanup organized by students in East Carolina University’s College of Health and Human Performance Sept. 17....

Sep 15, 2011

New Greenville restaurant donates 10 percent of food sales to ECU

The new Carolina Ale House in Greenville will donate 10 percent of food sales during its first open week, Sept. 17 – 23, to the East Carolina University Department of...

Aug 31, 2011

FoodMASTER program receives $1.27 million NIH grant

A $1.27 million grant to the East Carolina University FoodMASTER program will help middle school students learn mathematical and science concepts through activities based with food. ECU nutrition science professors...

Aug 31, 2011

Researchers seek volunteers for generation gap investigation

East Carolina University child development and family relations professor Dr. Mark White is among a group of researchers who are investigating whether the generation gap truly exists. Researchers in The...

Aug 30, 2011

Exotic locales enhance summer studies for ECU students

By Kathy Muse Snorkeling in the waters of the largest coral formation in the world, experiencing the viability of tourism within a village community in the South Pacific, studying global...

Aug 23, 2011

ECU study examines sleep and fatigue in chronically ill mothers

  Health care providers should be particularly attentive to supporting high quality sleep for chronically ill mothers of young children, according to a new study by East Carolina University researchers....

Aug 18, 2011

Hospitality management professor James A. Chandler mourned

Students, faculty, alumni, and friends of the ECU Department of Hospitality Management and the College of Human Ecology mourn the death of professor James A. Chandler, who passed away on...