Health Sciences Archives

Nov 15, 2021
  • Natalie Sayewich

Simulation exercise brings medical, physician assistant students together to provide emergency care

The following story and photos include imagery that may be sensitive to some readers. Medical and physician assistant students walking into the Brody Commons on Saturday were met with the...

Dr. Philip Rogers gives a report to the ECU Board of Trustees. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Nov 12, 2021
  • ECU News Services

EYE TO THE FUTURE

East Carolina University marked several milestones Friday as it kicked off a historic fundraising campaign and took the first step in the final approval process of creating ECU Health. At...

Nov 12, 2021
  • Spaine Stephens

ECU medical, dental schools partner to improve telehealth access

Faculty in East Carolina University’s Division of Health Sciences are collaborating on grant-funded efforts to enhance connectivity for home-based telehealth primary care access for patients in rural eastern North Carolina...

Nov 11, 2021
  • Rob Spahr

VETERAN SMILES

It is not uncommon to see civilians thank military veterans for their service, but it is not every day when the veteran replies by thanking the civilian for their service...

Nov 10, 2021
  • Erin Ward

RECOGNIZING MILITARY SERVICE

The Distinguished Military Service Society honored service to the nation and service to East Carolina University at a ceremony and dinner held at the Greenville Hilton on Friday. In partnership...

Nov 09, 2021
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda

Neuroscience symposium features ECU medical school alumnus turned Harvard researcher

A Brody School of Medicine alumnus revisited his roots recently when he headlined a neuroscience symposium on campus. The Eastern Carolina Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience (ECCSfN) held its 23rd...

Undergraduate students Marina Boatman and Lauren Johansen position tubes and air filters to collect air samples that will be tested for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
Nov 09, 2021
  • Natalie Sayewich

AIRBORNE DETECTION

Researchers at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine have found a new way to detect the virus that causes COVID-19 by testing the air passing through building ventilation systems....

Fourth-year ECU School of Dental Medicine student Victoria Hardy prepares to perform a root canal on her mother, Barbara Hardy. The School of Dental Medicine is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. (Photos by Rhett Butler)
Nov 04, 2021
  • Spaine Stephens

DECADE OF DENTISTRY

Several years ago, Victoria Hardy stared out the window of an East Carolina University Transit bus at Ledyard E. Ross Hall, the new home of the School of Dental Medicine...

Nov 03, 2021
  • Natalie Sayewich

STARTING STEM EARLY

If you happened to see Dr. Virginia C. Stage on the ground, digging through the dirt to find roly-polies outside ECU’s Health Sciences Building this past summer, you might not...

Oct 29, 2021
  • Rob Spahr

ECU nursing students support abused children with cuddly donations

When there is need in eastern North Carolina, East Carolina University’s College of Nursing always answers the call to serve. This has been evident throughout the COVID-19 pandemic as nursing...