Health sciences authors recognized with awards
More than 100 authors and a range of health aspects were highlighted at the 18th East Carolina University Health Sciences Author Recognition Awards. Award winners representing the Brody School of...
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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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...