Allied Health Archives

Dec 18, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Society inductees spark a bright future through planned gifts

What is the outcome and impact of a charitable planned gift in an estate plan? For East Carolina University Bea Chauncey Scholarship recipient Caroline Kuskowski, a planned gift created the...

A woman in a dark blazer pets a black dog on a leash.
Dec 09, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Animal partners prepare counseling students for challenging client work

Dr. Celeste Crawford, a clinical associate professor in East Carolina University’s Department of Addictions and Rehabilitation Studies and director of the Navigate Counseling Clinic, usually has a teaching assistant at...

Nov 25, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Neuroscience symposium links students, scientists and innovation

On a bright Halloween day, researchers from East Carolina University and institutions across the state gathered for the 27th annual ECU Neuroscience Symposium to show off their work to fight...

Nov 13, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

Authors recognized for scholarly contributions

East Carolina University’s libraries formally recognized ECU authors during a two-day span, hosting a ceremony on Health Sciences Campus and then a Main Campus ceremony the following day. “This enriches...

Nov 04, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Healing After Helene: One Pirate therapist’s call to serve

After Hurricane Helene struck the mountains of western North Carolina, word of the destruction leaked slowly from the mountainsides and overwashed valleys. For one Pirate alum, a family rescue mission...

Oct 27, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel
  • Ronnie Woodward

Interprofessional event recognizes housekeepers’ role in health care

Over two days in late September, more than 500 East Carolina University students gathered to consider the importance of all members of the health care team — learning from those...

Oct 23, 2025
  • University Advancement

Four ECU alumni honored for distinguished military service

Four East Carolina University alumni were honored for their service to the country during the Distinguished Military Service Society (DMSS) ceremony at the Main Campus Student Center on Sept. 26. Retired Air...

Oct 14, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

ECU, community colleges partner to transform health information careers

An innovative partnership between the baccalaureate health information management program at East Carolina University’s College of Allied Health Sciences — and nearly a dozen community colleges across the state —...

A professor dressed in purple and gold poses in an industrial kitchen on ECU's campus.
Aug 27, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Nutrition professor aims to boost The Gambia’s public health system with Fulbright scholarship

In January, Dr. Toyin Babatunde, an associate professor of nutrition science in East Carolina University’s College of Allied Health Sciences, will head to Banjul, the capital of The Gambia, to...

Aug 21, 2025
  • Steven Grandy

Caleb Spruill, biology/chemistry/public health, Duke University School of Medicine

A family history of kidney disease led East Carolina University student Caleb Spruill to apply for a summer research program at Duke University School of Medicine. Where a summer of...