Health Sciences Archives

East Carolina University professor Xin Hu shares his cell imaging research with attendees at the biomaterials research cluster launch event held at Research and Creative Achievement Week. The new cluster focuses on engineered materials that can be used for joint replacements, heart valves, surgical sutures or ligament replacements, among others.
Apr 18, 2019
  • Matt Smith

NEW RESEARCH CLUSTER

Researchers are putting a focus on biomaterials with the launch of East Carolina University’s newest research cluster. On April 5, the university launched its biomaterials research cluster as part of...

Apr 09, 2019
  • Spaine Stephens

PATIENTS TEACH STUDENTS

In the mind and heart of 92-year-old Claudine Humphrey, age is nothing but a number. While that generational debate rages on, what’s set in stone is the bond Humphrey built...

Ruba Raza gets her hair cut by Stephani Funez during the 2019 Pirates Vs. Cancer event in the Health Science Campus student center.
Apr 08, 2019
  • Rob Spahr

PIRATES VS. CANCER

Stefani Funez spends most of her days trying to entertain herself in a hospital room. This has been the case for the 15-year-old Duplin County resident since she was diagnosed...

Apr 08, 2019
  • ECU News Services

Brody chapter of Gold Humanism Honor Society inducts new members

The East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine chapter of the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) recently inducted nine new members. Third-year medical students Ryan Accomazzo, Matthew Drake, Kelsey Evans,...

Apr 05, 2019
  • ECU News Services

CON faculty member uses radio segment to discuss health topics

One College of Nursing faculty member has found a creative way to air—and share—health information with the community. Wendy Bridgers, clinical instructor in baccalaureate education in the College of Nursing,...

Apr 02, 2019
  • ECU News Services

Agricultural health, safety issues addressed during collaborative N.C. symposium

Agromedicine experts from around the country descended on the Research Triangle on March 27 to discuss issues facing agricultural industry workers and their families. The 2019 North Carolina Agricultural Health...

Mar 26, 2019
  • ECU News Services

College of Nursing inducts 8 new members into Hall of Fame

The ECU College of Nursing inducted eight new members to its Hall of Fame on Friday, March 15, 2019, and honored its newest Distinguished Alumni Award winner during a ceremony...

Dr. Andrew Stuart holds the SpeechEasy, a device he and two other ECU faculty members invented that helps people who stutter to speak normally. Stuart was recently elected as an inaugural member of the National Academy of Inventor’s Senior Member class.
Mar 22, 2019
  • Natalie Sayewich

INVENTOR HONOR

An ECU faculty member whose work has allowed thousands the ability to communicate normally was recently elected to the inaugural class of the National Academy of Inventors Senior Members. Dr....

Shayna Mooney reacts after learning she will complete her internal medicine residency at Carlilion Clinic-Virginia Tech School of Medicine.
Mar 15, 2019
  • Rob Spahr

MATCH DAY 2019

Fourth-year medical students gathered in the auditorium of ECU’s Brody School of Medicine on Friday – surrounded by their peers, professors and family members – to open letters telling them...

From left, Dr. Ray Hylock, Dr. Xiaoming Zeng, Dr. Ashkat Kapoor and Dr. Paul Toriello (not pictured) are working on a three year grant from the Kate B. Reynolds Trust to build a data system to track the progress in behavioral health initiatives in Beaufort County.
Mar 13, 2019
  • Natalie Sayewich

CHANGE YOU CAN MEASURE

A grant for more than $400,000 awarded to East Carolina University’s Department of Health Services & Information Management will allow Beaufort County health care professionals to measure the effectiveness of...