Impact, emotions come full circle at Camp WholeHeart
There is a phrase Brad Worrell likes to voice about Camp WholeHeart, which is for children 7 to 17 years old living with complex heart defects. “This is really their...
Health and Human Performance Archives
HEALTHY OUTCOMES
Babies with less fat, strong hearts, better metabolism and healthy cells are the benefits of exercise by pregnant women, according to research at East Carolina University. Linda May, an associate...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...