Dental Archives

Feb 09, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

COMMITMENT TO SERVICE

The Service League of Greenville has spent 83 years quietly doing big things for the community. A scholarship endowment, established in 2018 through the ECU Medical and Health Sciences Foundation,...

Feb 02, 2023
  • ECU Advancement

Pirate dental student earns inaugural Osborne scholarship

Alexis Lollis ’21, a first-year student at East Carolina University's School of Dental Medicine, has been chosen as the inaugural recipient of the Dr. Colin Osborne Jr. Scholarship. Named in...

Feb 01, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

Occupational therapy, dental students work to build hand strength, relationships

A two-minute walk across East Carolina University’s Health Sciences Campus was all it took for students to break down barriers and build interdisciplinary relationships. On an overcast Thursday, eight second-year...

ECU School of Dental Medicine student Cesar Pelaez is helped into his white coat by faculty members Hanan Elgendy and Luis Sensi during the school’s Jan. 27 White Coat Ceremony.
Jan 31, 2023
  • Spaine Stephens

DENTAL COATING CEREMONY

The East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine presented its second-year students their white coats on Friday marking the transition from preclinical work to the clinical phase of their dental...

East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine resident Charles Haddock explains a procedure to patient Santana McCoy at the school’s clinic in Hyde County.
Jan 23, 2023
  • Spaine Stephens

FULFILLING A PROMISE

Once a month, the post office building on Main Street in Swan Quarter also serves as the area’s only oral health care location for miles around. East Carolina University’s School...

Dec 19, 2022
  • Matt Smith

ECU 2022: YEAR IN REVIEW

If one word sums up Pirate Nation in 2022, it's "renewal." Pirates returned to campus with a rejuvenated sense of hope in response to COVID-19. Chancellor Philip Rogers was officially...

Almost 2,000 graduates were recognized at East Carolina University’s fall 2022 commencement ceremony in Minges Coliseum.
Dec 16, 2022
  • ECU News Services

AUDACITY TO ASPIRE

Nearly 2,000 East Carolina University graduates turned their tassels in Minges Coliseum on Friday, celebrating fall commencement 2022 along with their families, friends, and university faculty, staff and administrators. Chancellor...

Dec 07, 2022
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

CITA Foundation grants $50K to boost ECU dental student exam success

A gift to East Carolina University’s School of Dental Medicine will play an essential role in preparing students for success. Each class of dental students must complete an exam for...

Nov 30, 2022
  • Rob Spahr

ECU’s Laupus Library celebrates more than 120 health sciences authors

More than 120 authors from across East Carolina University’s Health Sciences Campus were honored during Laupus Health Sciences Library’s 17th annual Health Sciences Author Recognition Awards on Nov. 8. The...

Nov 23, 2022
  • Spaine Stephens

ECU dental school named Apple Distinguished School for sixth consecutive time

The ECU School of Dental Medicine has been recognized as an Apple Distinguished School (ADS) for 2022-25 for its use of technology in every aspect of teaching, learning and clinical...