RURAL HEALTH EDUCATION
The college and schools on East Carolina University’s Health Sciences Campus share a mission produce top-notch health care professionals to serve North Carolina. A key component of that commitment is...
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RURAL PATIENT CARE
ECU Health serves a vast rural region made up of 29 counties and is home to more than 1.4 million people. Like many rural regions, people across eastern North Carolina...
INTERNATIONAL GROWTH
To help kick off International Education Week, East Carolina University recognized faculty, staff and students for their outstanding work in pursuing international opportunities during its International Awards Ceremony. “As you...
RECOVERY GRANT
Dr. Leigh Atherton, an associate professor in East Carolina University’s College of Allied Health Sciences, has a simple-sounding proposition — engage individuals who are being tested for HIV to gauge...
ECU Allied Health students awarded prestigious national scholarships
The East Carolina University College of Allied Health Sciences is famous for its selectiveness — last year about 600 potential students applied for just 36 spots in the school’s physician’s...
ECU School of Dental Medicine awarded Delta Dental Foundation grants
Thanks to two generous grants from the Delta Dental Foundation, the ECU School of Dental Medicine will continue its efforts of providing transformational care to rural and underserved communities across...
INVESTING IN STUDENTS
East Carolina University’s Board of Trustees on Friday approved the site of a new medical education building on the health sciences campus. Trustees also approved an increase in tuition for...
ECU, ECU Health provide school children glimpse of possible health care careers
Seventy-five middle and high school students from communities in 15 eastern North Carolina counties spent their Saturday getting a first-hand understanding of what careers are available in the health care...
PIRATE HEROES
When they found a fellow student in cardiac arrest, East Carolina University students Krysta Byrd and Bradly Boaz stepped in to help, and their actions helped save a life. The...
ECU research study aims to unravel secrets of human gene expression
A pair of researchers at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine have received $280,000 in funding from Janssen Pharmaceuticals to study the way that genes are expressed in humans,...