ENHANCING ECU’S REACH
East Carolina University is receiving $1.39 million for a collaborative project that aims to improve access to digital technology and literacy, resources and skills training for residents in 29 eastern...
Health Sciences Archives
SHARED SUCCESS
The first thing you need to know about the Rogan sisters is simple, but helpful — Skylar wears glasses and Madison doesn’t. For identical twins who are as identical as...
ANYTHING BUT A GAME
“I said HUT! I said HUT!” Three young boys roughhousing an improvised game of football in an East Carolina University conference room on a cool, overcast late fall day wasn’t...
ECU alumna named N.C. Distinguished Family Physician of the Year
Shannon B. Dowler, a 1999 graduate of the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, was named the 2022 Distinguished Family Physician Award winner by the North Carolina Academy...
PARKINSON’S PILOT
One of the ironies of Parkinson’s disease, which is marked by an increasing inability for sufferers to control their movements, is that movement helps to stave off the disease’s progression....
Brody chapter of Gold Humanism Honor Society inducts new members
The East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) recently inducted 12 new members. Fourth-year medical students Gary Allen, Mona Amin, Kari Beasley,...
Privette meeting room a venue for exchanging ideas, positive interactions
Doug Privette ’72 came to East Carolina University in 1968 with a suitcase and a plan to focus exclusively on academics. He found friends and his life’s purpose in ECU’s...
ECU 2022: YEAR IN REVIEW
If one word sums up Pirate Nation in 2022, it's "renewal." Pirates returned to campus with a rejuvenated sense of hope in response to COVID-19. Chancellor Philip Rogers was officially...
AUDACITY TO ASPIRE
Nearly 2,000 East Carolina University graduates turned their tassels in Minges Coliseum on Friday, celebrating fall commencement 2022 along with their families, friends, and university faculty, staff and administrators. Chancellor...
Nursing researcher breaks communication barriers with HIV-positive women
One thread that East Carolina University health sciences researchers keep pulling at to unravel the heavy burden of chronic disease in eastern North Carolina is disconnectedness. Many of the people...