Health and Human Performance Archives

Fine arts major Sydney Cook is delving into her creative process through her signature honors project exploring typography, artificial intelligence and more. (Photos by Rhett Butler)
Oct 25, 2023
  • Kristen Martin

BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS

The culminating academic experience for East Carolina University Honors College students is the signature honors project. Through this experience, students can pursue thesis-based or creative endeavor projects with a faculty...

Public health major Tyler West worked closely with Dr. Joseph Lee on a project focusing on data collectors under 21 trying to buy tobacco products. (Photo by Rhett Butler)
Oct 24, 2023
  • Kristen Martin

Tyler West, Public Health

An email started East Carolina University public health major Tyler West’s journey to completing his signature honors project. Through emails from the health education and promotion department and the Honors...

Oct 12, 2023
  • Ken Buday

PharmaFest to offer career paths to ECU students in a variety of programs

The pharmaceutical industry isn’t just for chemists and biologists anymore, and an event at East Carolina University is designed to show just that. The Eastern Region Pharma Center has scheduled...

Oct 05, 2023
  • Kim Tilghman
  • Ronnie Woodward

ADVOCATES FOR FARMWORKERS

East Carolina University faculty members Joseph Lee, Jamie Bloss and Leslie Cofie are building on past successes to serve on a new inter-institutional research team focused on advancing health equity...

Alex Hernandez-Integrated Care services
Oct 03, 2023
  • Ronnie Woodward

MORE THERAPISTS, MORE CARE

Angela Lamson and Jennifer Hodgson began collaborating with Greene County Health Care nearly 20 years ago for an integrated care program to benefit patients in eastern North Carolina and provide...

East Carolina University Air Force ROTC cadets look at photos in a case in the library exhibition “75 Years of Detachment 600: East Carolina’s Air Force ROTC.”
Sep 26, 2023
  • Ronnie Woodward

CELEBRATING 75 YEARS

From the vision and support of then-East Carolina Teachers College president John Messick in the 1940s to current cadets and commander Lt. Col. William Dye, who is East Carolina University...

Erin Roberts, left, uses her fingers to demonstrate eye movement desensitization and reprocessing with colleague Jennifer Matthews.
Sep 06, 2023
  • Ronnie Woodward

EMPOWERING ENC

Faculty members in East Carolina University’s College of Health and Human Performance are taking a multi-layered approach to trauma-informed education and implementation. This focus stems from a four-year grant of...

Martina Van Etten, a STEM Summer Immersion Program students from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, spent the summer at East Carolina University studying sablefish.
Aug 30, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

RESEARCH IMMERSION

This summer, Martina Van Etten has learned about sablefish, a deep-water species native to the eastern Pacific Ocean, through an internship at East Carolina University. A junior biology major at...

East Carolina University Health Education and Promotion professor Dr. Jo Anne Balanay and Fayetteville State University student KiHyira Jones look at a wet bulb globe temperature heat stress monitor positioned in a parking lot outside the Belk Building. They studied heat stress factors this summer.
Aug 30, 2023
  • Ronnie Woodward

SUMMER SAFETY

KiHyira Jones arrived at East Carolina University from Fayetteville State University in early June completely unfamiliar with a heat stress monitor that measures wet bulb globe temperature index. In just...

Provost Dr. Robin Coger, center, discusses research and graduate school with UNC Pembroke junior Martina Van Etten, left, and her mentor Dr. Kat Dale, ECU post doctoral research scholar.
Aug 30, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

BUILDING RESEARCH CONNECTIONS

Twelve students found their footing in research and scientific discovery and learned more about pathways to graduate studies at East Carolina University during the STEM Summer Immersion Program. The program,...