Nursing Archives

Wrenn Whitfield, from left, Teresa Hupp, Abby Ulffers and Kaylee Warren became best friends during their time at East Carolina University and encouraged each other on their journeys to success.
Apr 27, 2023
  • Kristen Martin

LIFE-CHANGING BOND

In Hollywood, college is pictured as a place where you’ll find yourself and — more importantly — you’ll find your lifelong friends who support and encourage you to be successful....

Kim Larson, left, Ganna Rozumna and Natalia Sira discuss a nursing collaboration project. Larson is the first member of East Carolina University's College of Nursing to receive a Fulbright Scholar award.
Apr 24, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

NURSING FULBRIGHT

Kim Larson, an East Carolina University professor of nursing, learned in February that she would be the first member of the College of Nursing to receive a Fulbright Scholar award,...

Faculty members who received the UNC System Board of Governors Distinguished Professor for Teaching Awards stand with Provost Robin Coger, left, and Faculty Chair Anne Ticknor and Chancellor Philip Rogers, right.
Apr 14, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

‘UNWAVERING COMMITMENT’

East Carolina University recognized and celebrated outstanding faculty members during the 2023 University Teaching Awards ceremony Tuesday night in the Murphy Center. “I’m so proud we’re a university that offers...

Apr 11, 2023
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda

Medical Education Day showcases health professions education research, innovation

Students in the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University — as well as students from other health sciences disciplines — shared their research and networked with other students...

Mar 22, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

ECU medical students establish ‘doula-like’ volunteer program

Getting through medical school can be tough — long hours, books and tests, and more books. However, between classes and all-nighters, two students from the East Carolina University Brody School...

Mar 17, 2023
  • Kim Tilghman

REDE bus tour encourages collaboration for transformation

While many stayed home or traveled to warmer climates during spring break, a group of East Carolina University faculty, students and staff embarked on a tour throughout eastern North Carolina’s...

The East Carolina University College of Nursing’s Courtney Caiola, Becky Bagley, and John Smoot played a pivotal role in helping a nursing student care for her newly adopted child.
Mar 02, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

DONATION OF LOVE

Sometimes it takes a village. And a caravan. And complete strangers. Julianne Szymanski has been a labor and delivery nurse for a decade and a half. She has had a...

Kuan-Hung Chen, an IT consultant with the East Carolina University College of Nursing, works on graphic elements of a virtual reality game used to teach students.
Mar 01, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

GAMING HEALTH EDUCATION

Sometimes gaming doesn’t mean playing a game. In June of 2022, Josh Peery, a game designer and instructional technology consultant for East Carolina University’s College of Nursing, was asked to speak...

Feb 09, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

ECU College of Nursing honors its preceptors of the year

When many think of a university education, the images that often come to mind are those of young adults sitting in neat rows in a lecture hall. Nursing students’ practical...

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,...