Health Sciences Archives

May 18, 2023
  • Spaine Stephens

ECU family medicine founder, educator leaves legacy

James G. “Jim” Jones, founding chair of the Department of Family Medicine in the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, has died. He was 88. Jones had a...

ECU Brinkley-Lane Scholars
May 18, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

Sarah Grace Aldridge

When you come from a family that bleeds Purple and Gold, it’s hard to shake the call to join Pirate Nation. For Sarah Grace Aldridge, continuing her family’s legacy at...

East Carolina University nutrition science students prepare and serve an Italian lunch in the Rivers Building.
May 18, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

HANDS-ON NUTRITION

Food makes life richer, more enjoyable. It solidifies culture and fosters unshakable foundations for families. Food assists with super-human endurance and strength or can destroy a body’s ability to sustain...

ECU Brinkley-Lane Scholars
May 18, 2023
  • Ronnie Woodward

Kaylee Chavis

A line on Kaylee Chavis’ resume includes she is committed to working hard and serving her school, peers and community. She is ready to do that as a Brinkley-Lane Scholar...

ECU Brinkley-Lane Scholars
May 18, 2023
  • Spaine Stephens

Emma Romig

All her life, Emma Romig has been fervent and fearless when it comes to achieving her goals. She’ll bring that same determined personality to East Carolina University when she arrives...

ECU Brinkley-Lane Scholars
May 18, 2023
  • Doug Boyd

Blake Hardee

He's a volunteer firefighter. He’s a veterinary assistant. He’s a Brinkley-Lane Scholar. He’s Blake Hardee, now a senior at D.H. Conley High School who will graduate June 9. In August,...

East Carolina University occupational therapy professor Anne Dickerson and film associate professor Erick Green partnered to create a film to educate emergency workers about elderly driver safety.
May 16, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

SERVICE FILM

What happens when a left-brained clinical researcher, a right-brained film production professor and a crew of East Carolina University students and alumni work together on the issue of older driver...

May 16, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Brody Brothers Endowment provides bridge to future funding

Researchers at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine aim to discover prevention and treatment protocols for many prevalent diseases which represent significant health challenges among the population of eastern North...

Current and past Brody Scholars gathered to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Brody Scholars program.
May 12, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

LEGACY OF SCHOLARS

If not for the Brody Scholars Program Brandon Garcia, Grant O’Brien and Kayla Mayes may have become a leading magician, math teacher and real estate developer. Instead, all three graduated...

May 12, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

ECU’s Brody School of Medicine leads the state in several U.S. News rankings

In a new ranking, East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine leads the state in graduates practicing in federally designated health service shortage areas, and the percentage of graduates practicing...