Health Sciences Archives

Feb 02, 2023
  • ECU Advancement

Pirate dental student earns inaugural Osborne scholarship

Alexis Lollis ’21, a first-year student at East Carolina University's School of Dental Medicine, has been chosen as the inaugural recipient of the Dr. Colin Osborne Jr. Scholarship. Named in...

Feb 01, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

Occupational therapy, dental students work to build hand strength, relationships

A two-minute walk across East Carolina University’s Health Sciences Campus was all it took for students to break down barriers and build interdisciplinary relationships. On an overcast Thursday, eight second-year...

Jan 31, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

ECU farm to clinic program boosts nutrition initiative

East Carolina University students are all in for experiential learning opportunities, especially when it comes to the farm to clinic program in the College of Allied Health Sciences’ Department of...

ECU School of Dental Medicine student Cesar Pelaez is helped into his white coat by faculty members Hanan Elgendy and Luis Sensi during the school’s Jan. 27 White Coat Ceremony.
Jan 31, 2023
  • Spaine Stephens

DENTAL COATING CEREMONY

The East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine presented its second-year students their white coats on Friday marking the transition from preclinical work to the clinical phase of their dental...

Case study team members from the College of Allied Health Sciences pose before an award ceremony including Nina Thompson, from left, Claire Kraft, Robert Kulesher, Bradly Boaz and Gwendolyn Daniels.
Jan 27, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

HEALTH SERVICES MANAGEMENT

In late October, four East Carolina University students got gussied up and stood in a large, sun-splashed College of Allied Health Sciences conference room and presented their plan for how...

Jan 26, 2023
  • Spaine Stephens

Banquet honors graduating medical students, legacy of caring

The 39th annual Andrew A. Best, MD Senior Recognition Banquet honored an eastern North Carolina legacy in medicine — and celebrated the graduating members of the Student National Medical Association...

Jason Higginson, Brody School of Medicine executive dean and chief health officer for ECU Health, took over command Jan. 21 of the Navy Reserve Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command–Bethesda.
Jan 25, 2023
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda

TAKING COMMAND

For someone who claims to not believe in multitasking, Jason Higginson certainly excels at it. In addition to serving as executive dean of East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine,...

Jan 25, 2023
  • ECU News Services

ECU, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy establish early assurance program

The UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, the No. 1 pharmacy school in the country, and East Carolina University have established an early assurance program. This partnership means current and incoming...

East Carolina University's online master’s degree programs in nursing have been ranked in the top 10% in the U.S. for 2023.
Jan 24, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

ADVANCED DEGREES

East Carolina University’s online master’s degree programs in business, criminal justice, education and nursing are among the best in the nation in a new ranking by U.S. News & World...

East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine resident Charles Haddock explains a procedure to patient Santana McCoy at the school’s clinic in Hyde County.
Jan 23, 2023
  • Spaine Stephens

FULFILLING A PROMISE

Once a month, the post office building on Main Street in Swan Quarter also serves as the area’s only oral health care location for miles around. East Carolina University’s School...