Health Sciences Archives

Oct 02, 2019
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda

VIRTUAL REALITY COMES TO ECU

User-friendly virtual reality has arrived on ECU’s Health Sciences Campus. Laupus Library has unveiled a new Virtual Reality Lab, a virtual reality learning, experimentation and development workspace on the second...

Oct 01, 2019
  • Crystal Baity

HEALTHY FARMWORKERS

Heat-related illnesses, pesticide exposure and other occupational hazards face migrant and seasonal farmworkers each day. But a new three-year, $427,551 health disparities grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National...

Sep 27, 2019
  • Erin Ward

DEDICATED TO DENTISTRY

On a hot summer day in New Bern, long lines of people waited to get into the Garber United Methodist Church, but not to worship. On this day, the pews...

Sep 27, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU faculty member joins leadership of National Nursing League

ECU faculty member Dr. Mark Hand has been elected to serve as a member of the National League for Nursing (NLN) Board of Governors for a three-year term beginning this...

Behavioral health consultants provide ongoing services for short-term behavioral health concerns. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Sep 26, 2019
  • Spaine Stephens

COLLABORATIONS IN CARE

A unique grant celebrates East Carolina University’s commitment to using interprofessional collaboration to address emerging and challenging trends in health care, including opioid use and substance abuse prevention and treatment....

Sep 25, 2019
  • ECU News Services

Fallon takes helm of Brody’s pathology department

Dr. John T. Fallon was named chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine, effective Sept. 1. Most recently, Fallon was...

Sep 23, 2019
  • Natalie Sayewich

NURSES ADDRESSING NEEDS

Thanks to new grant funding, graduates from several ECU College of Nursing departments will be poised to provide health care that makes a big difference in small communities. The four-year,...

Sep 19, 2019
  • Spaine Stephens

CELEBRATING SIMULATION

For ECU dental student Toyosi Coker and other students on the Health Sciences Campus, practice makes a perfect blend of confidence and capability. Access to state-of-the-art equipment and technology in...

Sep 18, 2019
  • ECU News Services

Grant will give preschoolers head start on learning about science and health

East Carolina University will lead a new five-year, $1.3 million grant that will give thousands of North Carolina children an early start on learning about science and nutrition. Preschool Education...

Sep 12, 2019
  • ECU News Services

ECU researcher, grad student among American Association of University Women award recipients

An East Carolina University researcher, Dr. Samantha McDonald, and an ECU graduate student, Rachel E.R. Person, have received American Association of University Women (AAUW) 2019-20 fellowships and grants. McDonald, from...