Health Sciences Archives

Apr 10, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

ECU and Golden LEAF Foundation commemorate success

Golden LEAF Foundation scholarships are a family tradition for East Carolina University senior Sarah Nasser and sophomore Khalid Nasser. Both are current scholars. Their younger brother, Saad, has been accepted...

Apr 10, 2025
  • ECU Health News

Brody students recognize patients and families with Legacy Teachers Celebration

In the third year of medical school, students step out of the classroom and into clinical settings for the first time as physicians in training. As they interact with patients,...

Apr 09, 2025
  • Crystal Baity

ECU graduate programs earn high rankings

East Carolina University’s master’s and doctoral programs in allied health sciences, medicine and nursing earned high rankings once again this year in U.S. News & World Report’s 2025 Best Graduate...

Apr 08, 2025
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Child life specialists treat childhood fears, grow resilient humans

Thursday mornings at the Brody Outpatient Clinic’s pediatric hematology-oncology practice is given over to children with sickle cell disease, a congenital condition that limits aerobic activity and can be painful...

A woman in a red shirt and black coat sits in a lab with test tubes and gloves
Apr 08, 2025
  • Shelby Hudnall

Faculty: Dr. Morgan Milton

As the temperatures rise, Dr. Morgan Milton’s research on Vibrio bacteria highlights the growing risks and why we should remain vigilant during the warmer months. At East Carolina University’s Brody...

Young woman with hand on her side posing in front of a body of water and trees. A bench is visible in the background.
Apr 04, 2025
  • Alondra Martinez

Student: Riley Bessetti

From an early age, Riley Bessetti was drawn to science. Now a fifth-year doctoral candidate in East Carolina University’s Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the Brody School of...

A female M4 student with tan skin and light hair cries with excitement of finding out where she matched, surrounded by family.
Mar 24, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel
  • Bobby Ampezzan
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda
  • Spaine Stephens

Match Day 2025

Across the nation, medical students learned Friday where they will spend the next several years completing their residencies, the postgraduate training program for recent medical school graduates to gain specialized...

Mar 10, 2025
  • Bobby Ampezzan

National Academy of Sciences member shares genetics research, hope that assisted reproduction can be safer.

To Dr. Marisa Bartolomei, the investment East Carolina University has made in research is impressive. Last month, the university was granted R1 status by the American Council on Education and...

A physical therapy student encourages a HABIT camp participant during a race in the Health Sciences Student Center gym in December.
Mar 10, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Innovative study shows therapy’s lasting impact on children’s hand function

Sometimes rigorous scientific research and therapeutic treatment comes in the form of a ninja warrior course. Natalie McBryde graduated from East Carolina University in May 2024 with a degree in...

Two women, dressed in purple scrubs, hold the side of a cake beneath the face of a man seated between them.
Mar 07, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Donor support burns brightly during Pirate Nation Gives

More than 2,300 alumni, friends and students took the cake to support East Carolina University during Pirate Nation Gives on March 5. Gifts came from far away and right in...