Health Sciences Archives

May 01, 2020
  • ECU News Services

PIRATE GRIT ANCHORS GRADUATES

A 71 year old who returned last fall to complete his degree, a future doctor, a born leader with his eye on the White House, a major in the U.S....

May 01, 2020
  • Natalie Sayewich

FINDING BALANCE

Visit our YouTube channel for the closed-captioned version of this video. As Jacob Buccini helps others find their balance, he finds his own, forging a path that lets him care...

May 01, 2020
  • Ken Buday

CALLED TO SERVE

Visit our YouTube channel for the closed-captioned version of this video. Maj. Jessica Georgi may do more before 9 a.m. than most people do all day. Georgi serves in the...

May 01, 2020
  • Kristen Martin

COMMUNITY ADVOCATE

Visit our YouTube channel for the closed-captioned version of this video. Serena Mooney leverages her passion for overlooked communities and advocacy as a future health care professional to shape her...

Apr 30, 2020
  • Spaine Stephens

VIRTUAL COOKING CLASS

A popular class on weight management and diabetes prevention shifted from in-person to online because of the COVID-19 pandemic—but thanks to community partnerships, participants still reaped the fruits of the...

Apr 29, 2020
  • Natalie Sayewich

HELPING THE HELPERS

Update 5/21/20:  Communities throughout North Carolina continue to support health care providers in Greenville through generous donations of personal protective equipment. The Chinese-American community in Greenville recently donated 10,000 additional...

Apr 28, 2020
  • Ken Buday

Faculty: Dr. Ford Grant

Among the limbs in Dr. Ford Grant’s family tree is a link to Daniel Boone. But it’s the roots of that family tree that guided the clinical associate professor in...

Apr 27, 2020
  • Janiya Winchester
  • Rob Spahr

SUPER SPONGE

Dr. John Cavanagh was sitting in a collaborator’s office at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration location in Charleston, S.C., in 2002 when a picture came onto a computer screen...

Apr 23, 2020
  • Natalie Sayewich

PREVENTING COVID-19 BURNOUT

As we navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors, nurses and other health care providers are being faced with unprecedented challenges, including shortages of staff and equipment needed to provide care to...

Apr 21, 2020
  • Erin Ward

‘WE ARE FIGHTING’

East Carolina University doctors, nurses and health care workers near and far are risking their lives to serve others during the coronavirus pandemic. From a nursing student working long shifts...