Health Sciences Archives

Aug 21, 2025
  • Steven Grandy

Caleb Spruill, biology/chemistry/public health, Duke University School of Medicine

A family history of kidney disease led East Carolina University student Caleb Spruill to apply for a summer research program at Duke University School of Medicine. Where a summer of...

Aug 21, 2025
  • Steven Grandy

Kara Dubois, neuroscience and psychology; Medical College of Georgia

Some East Carolina University students spent their summers next to the pool or playing video games. Senior Kara Dubois spent her summer conducting research in a medical lab. Dubois of...

Aug 19, 2025
  • ECU News Services

Pirates take advantage of summer study abroad opportunities

East Carolina University students grabbed their passports this summer as they participated in numerous study abroad opportunities. From group trips to solo positions, students went to all corners of the...

Aug 15, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Nurse’s global impact inspires gift for next generation of ECU nursing

The family of a Pirate Nurse is carrying on her spirit of 50 years of nursing service by funding a scholarship that has helped unburden the next generation of graduates...

purple 'research one' banners hang proudly displayed in front of ECU's Wright building
Aug 14, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Student success initiatives grow with strategic support in FY 2025

Donors have embraced East Carolina University’s priority fundraising focus to further initiatives like scholarships and research, contributing nearly $74.4 million in philanthropic support, according to a fiscal year-end wrap-up of...

Two teen boys and one teen girl play their saxophones.
Aug 06, 2025
  • ECU News Services

Youth thrive at ECU summer camps

It’s a hot summer day and the East Carolina University campus is bustling with middle school students pitching entrepreneurial ideas, high school band students rehearsing and future teachers working on...

A tray of reddish brown portions of clay awaits artists, two of whom are reaching and grabbing a portion.
Aug 05, 2025
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Soft clay bonds medical students, MFA artists

It began with a lump of clay. For a happy moment, five second-year medical students and five Master of Fine Arts degree seekers sat smacking and squeezing their formless medium...

Jul 30, 2025
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Medical students’ 40-hour orientation hints at work weeks to come

Damani Fitzgerald and Emily Jordan were both in clinical spaces this spring when they got the phone call. The call. The one inviting them into East Carolina University Brody School...

Jul 28, 2025
  • Steven Grandy

These classes give ECU students the coolest schedule

East Carolina University students can choose from hundreds of classes when they make their schedule for each semester and a handful may cause a second glance when looking through the...

Jul 22, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

Interlibrary loan process makes swift, free connections

The thesis research process for East Carolina University music graduate student Matthew Mantini could have been costly, including when he was interested in one full score that cost $255 to...