PRINTING PROTECTION
A group of East Carolina University students has teamed up with faculty and administrators from various departments in hopes of providing needed safety equipment to medical personnel. With concerns over...
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SOURCING SANITIZER
As the residents of eastern North Carolina adapted to working from home and homeschooling, and the first cases of COVID-19 in Pitt and Beaufort counties were confirmed, community members began...
Faculty: Dr. Rebecca Snyder
Dr. Rebecca Snyder may be relatively new to Pirate Nation, but East Carolina University’s mission to support the rural region in which it is located made coming to ECU an...
LEANING IN
As East Carolina University students switched from in-person to distance education-only classes last week, hundreds of faculty and staff worked from home. Face-to-face lectures or meetings were replaced by virtual...
Brody student appointed to national committee
The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) recently appointed William H. McAllister as a 2020-2021 student member to the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME). McAllister, a third-year medical student...
ON THE ROAD AGAIN
For the third consecutive year, East Carolina University’s Purple and Gold Bus Tour rolled through eastern North Carolina in early March, traveling more than 380 miles to 13 locations across...
ECU professor co-chaired task force that set state’s health goals for 2030
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has released a report detailing health goals for North Carolinians by the year 2030. The report, “Healthy North Carolina 2030: A...
MATCH DAY 2020
Fourth-year Brody School of Medicine students learned Friday where they will spend the next several years completing residency training. The highly anticipated Match Day ceremony is normally held in the...
MATCH DAY AND A BIRTHDAY
It’s fitting that Match Day is also the fourth birthday of Lynette Staplefoote-Boynton’s son, Josiah. For them, her journey through medical school has truly been a family affair. Staplefoote-Boynton; her...
PERFECT MATCH
Gabe Gaweda was willing to walk through lava for Maggie Jordan. It wasn’t real lava, just placemats on a gymnasium floor to indicate lava. Still, that game four years ago...