Nursing Archives

Nov 13, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel
  • Spaine Stephens

Doctor’s three decades of service leaves lasting impact on medical training

Dr. Walter “Skip” Robey retired in October after more than 30 years of service at the Brody School of Medicine, but his lasting legacy will be the medical simulation program...

Nov 06, 2024
  • Jules Norwood

Graduate students pitch research projects in Three-Minute Thesis competition

Sixteen East Carolina University graduate students took the stage Monday afternoon to pitch their research projects in the Three-Minute Thesis competition in the Main Campus Student Center ballrooms. Xanthia Saganis,...

Nov 06, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

Nursing alumni prove ECU’s commitment to service after Hurricane Helene

When Hurricane Helene rolled into western North Carolina in late September, Pirate nurses — from the mountains to the coast — dropped what they were doing and rushed to storm-ravaged...

A woman places a case of water in a semi-trailer with the ECU athletic logo on the side.
Oct 10, 2024
  • ECU News Services

Pirates come together for Hurricane Helene relief

The remnants of Hurricane Helene combined with heavy rainfall in the days prior to the storm caused historic flooding and devastation in the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee after...

Oct 10, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

Professor, student team up to study impact of foreign medical missions

Lindsay Jarman started volunteering on mission trips shortly after graduation as a nurse from Georgia Southern University — in Kenya, Honduras, Ecuador and Zimbabwe — to help provide a range...

Oct 07, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

Grants to address substance use disorder crisis in eastern NC

A team of researchers and clinicians from the East Carolina University’s health sciences schools and colleges has been awarded a nearly $900,000 grant from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental...

Sep 26, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

Pirate nurse alumna leads health care change in Moldova

Alumna Hilary Mendel had a plan to change the world when she arrived at East Carolina University in 2006. The Pirate nurse has seen that vision through, using her nursing...

Sep 20, 2024
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Access Scholarship program yields transformative student success

Anyone seeking to understand East Carolina University’s strategic focus on student success and its intersection with philanthropy need only visit a scholarship event like the Access Scholarship luncheon held Sept....

Sep 11, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

Pirate Nurse takes flight over eastern NC to save lives

As a boy, Hunter Venters walked the fields of his family’s farms near Chicod in southern Pitt County. From time-to-time small planes would fly overhead. Venters doesn’t remember wanting to...

Sep 06, 2024
  • Ronnie Woodward

Living Learning Communities foster forever bonds

Ballard Hall can be a place to learn about the healthy and friendly rivalry between the East Carolina University Air Force ROTC and Army ROTC programs. Cadets from both units...