Dental Archives

A dental student stands posing in front of Ross Hall, smiling and wearing blue scrubs.
May 05, 2025
  • Spaine Stephens

Student: Madisyn French

Although East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine student Madisyn French is far from her hometown of Cherokee, North Carolina, she is eager to establish her role in the clinical...

May 01, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Dogwood Health Trust invests in dental care for western North Carolina

East Carolina University’s School of Dental Medicine aims to increase sustainability and provide more patient access in western North Carolina through a grant from Dogwood Health Trust. The three-year, $593,000...

Apr 17, 2025
  • Crystal Baity

Outstanding faculty honored at 2025 University Teaching Awards

East Carolina University celebrated faculty members who excel in the classroom and beyond at the 2025 University Teaching Awards ceremony Tuesday in the Main Campus Student Center. “Our students, region...

Two women, dressed in purple scrubs, hold the side of a cake beneath the face of a man seated between them.
Mar 07, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Donor support burns brightly during Pirate Nation Gives

More than 2,300 alumni, friends and students took the cake to support East Carolina University during Pirate Nation Gives on March 5. Gifts came from far away and right in...

Mar 04, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

ECU set to celebrate ninth day of giving Wednesday

Students on the East Carolina University Club Volleyball team intend to compete in nationals this year in Phoenix, Arizona. They are counting on donations and bonus money earned during Pirate...

Mar 03, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Pirate Nation Gives offers many ways to support university

Scan the code and give to an area of East Carolina University that is important to you. Using the QR code embedded on signs around campus and seen in this...

A student pauses in mask and scrub cap as another provider continues working on a patient in a dental suite.
Feb 26, 2025
  • Spaine Stephens

Dental school’s annual Sonríe Clinic brings smiles to Hispanic community

Language barriers highlight the obstacles in the way of human connections — but a smile is universal. East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine students, residents, faculty, staff, undergraduate student...

A man in a gray shirt and black apron holds a coffee order.
Feb 06, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Awaken Coffee expands to ECU: Empowering the differently abled, one cup at a time

As of Feb. 3, the East Carolina University Health Sciences Campus is fully caffeinated again. Awaken Coffee, which offers premium coffee brewed and served by members of the greater Greenville...

Jan 29, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Heath care students learn to learn from one another

In the 1980s, health care educators began to rethink how health sciences students, including future doctors, nurses, physical therapists and their allied health peers, should learn their jobs. Interprofessional education,...

Jan 22, 2025
  • Crystal Baity
  • Shelby Hudnall

Treasured Pirates, longtime employees honored at recognition ceremony

East Carolina University’s 2024 Treasured Pirates and employees who have achieved 30 or more years of state service were recognized in a ceremony at Harvey Hall on Jan. 13, the...