NURTURING NUTRITION
While East Carolina University is known for preparing educators for the classroom, a team of Pirate researchers is studying how teachers’ personal views on healthy behaviors impact their students. Virginia...
Allied Health Archives
BREAKING BARRIERS: BLACK HISTORY AT ECU
The following stories were originally published by ECU News Services in 2021. Timeline sources: ECU Joyner Library Desegregation website, ECU Heritage Hall and ECU News Services archives
HISTORY MAKER: LEDONIA S. WRIGHT
A proponent of the health and wellness of minority and low-income populations, North Carolina native Ledonia Smith Wright was a trailblazer. Born on Jan. 5, 1930, in Rockingham, she went...
CARRYING ON
As baby boomers age, some are outliving their ability to drive. That’s why it’s important to have a transportation plan, and East Carolina University occupational therapists are helping older drivers...
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY SCHOLARSHIPS
We fill our days with regular activities — we get dressed, eat breakfast, brush our teeth, text a friend, drive the car, check email — often without having to put...
FALL 2020 COMMENCEMENT — COLLEGE CELEBRATIONS
Graduates, parents, families and friends, please join us at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 4 for our virtual Fall 2020 Commencement Ceremony. Watch the ceremony live on the commencement website, or...
MOBILE HEALTH SCREENINGS
An ECU Brody School of Medicine-led initiative that provides telehealth screenings to eastern North Carolina children has enlisted a creative way to bring health care to the students during the...
CONNECTING THE COMMUNITY
Laupus Library has been awarded a $75,000 grant through the Institute of Museum and Library Services to provide laptops and health education instruction to the school-aged children of migrant farmworker families in...
ECU Jean Mills Symposium explores race and medicine during pandemic, protests
Defining moments of the year 2020 have exposed the impact of health disparities and how they are perpetuated in health care and medical education, says Dr. Damon Tweedy. The Duke...
DRIVING INDEPENDENCE
For parents of teens in Dr. Anne Dickerson’s driving boot camp, there aren’t enough words to describe what she and her East Carolina University occupational therapy graduate students have given...