Medical Archives

Aug 19, 2025
  • ECU News Services

Pirates take advantage of summer study abroad opportunities

East Carolina University students grabbed their passports this summer as they participated in numerous study abroad opportunities. From group trips to solo positions, students went to all corners of the...

purple 'research one' banners hang proudly displayed in front of ECU's Wright building
Aug 14, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Student success initiatives grow with strategic support in FY 2025

Donors have embraced East Carolina University’s priority fundraising focus to further initiatives like scholarships and research, contributing nearly $74.4 million in philanthropic support, according to a fiscal year-end wrap-up of...

Two teen boys and one teen girl play their saxophones.
Aug 06, 2025
  • ECU News Services

Youth thrive at ECU summer camps

It’s a hot summer day and the East Carolina University campus is bustling with middle school students pitching entrepreneurial ideas, high school band students rehearsing and future teachers working on...

A tray of reddish brown portions of clay awaits artists, two of whom are reaching and grabbing a portion.
Aug 05, 2025
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Soft clay bonds medical students, MFA artists

It began with a lump of clay. For a happy moment, five second-year medical students and five Master of Fine Arts degree seekers sat smacking and squeezing their formless medium...

Jul 30, 2025
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Medical students’ 40-hour orientation hints at work weeks to come

Damani Fitzgerald and Emily Jordan were both in clinical spaces this spring when they got the phone call. The call. The one inviting them into East Carolina University Brody School...

a group of students laugh as they navigate a team building challenge involving purple, intertwined yarn.
Jul 21, 2025
  • Bobby Ampezzan

On track for more than a decade

When Kamryn Henderson came to the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University last summer, she brought with her the discipline and poise of a track and field athlete...

Jul 17, 2025
  • Kim Tilghman

MOTHeRS project wins national award for advancing maternal mental health care

An East Carolina University initiative that brings maternal health care closer to home, helping obstetric patients avoid long trips to distant specialty centers, has earned national recognition. The MOTHeRS Project...

A man in a neon yellow construction shirt and white hard hat holds a nail gun to the floor of the Whichard building on campus.
Jul 01, 2025
  • Doug Boyd

Summer 2025 Campus Construction Roundup

This summer, crews and contractors at East Carolina University are busy working on old buildings and putting up new ones, with the goal of providing safe, modern and spacious facilities...

hree women, who are Brody Scholars, stand side by side on the grounds in front of the Brody School of Medicine.
Jun 12, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Brody Scholars share commitment to service

Since the Brody Scholars program began in 1983, 163 medical students have received the university’s most prestigious medical scholarship to attend East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine. The newest recipients...

Jun 12, 2025
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

Kamryn Henderson hopes to provide belonging in medical spaces

Being injured or sick is often a very vulnerable moment for a patient. Those are the moments Kamryn Henderson sees herself being the best physician, one who can ensure patients...