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Third-year med student Noopur Doshi practices airway management in the Interprofessional Clinical Simulation Center.
Nov 20, 2018
  • Rob Spahr

IMPROVING MEDICAL EDUCATION

A handpicked group of the nation’s leading medical schools – of which ECU’s Brody School of Medicine is a founding member – will have extra time to partner on projects...

ECU is dedicated not just to educating its dental students via hours in clinical simulation labs but also to connecting them to the community for real-world experience and giving back through events like the inaugural ECU Smiles at the School of Dental Medicine community service learning center in Sylva on Thursday.
Nov 19, 2018
  • Spaine Stephens

SALUTES AND SMILES

For Lloyd Holland, walking into the East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine’s community service learning center in Sylva, N.C., felt like coming home all over again. Holland and about...

Anita Hill, law professor and women’s and civil rights advocate, spoke to a nearly full house in ECU’s Wright Auditorium on Nov. 15. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Nov 16, 2018
  • Lacey L. Gray

MOMENT OF A SOCIAL MOVEMENT

Anita Hill, law professor at Brandeis University and a women’s and civil rights advocate, was welcomed with a standing ovation at East Carolina University’s Wright Auditorium on the evening of...

Nov 15, 2018
  • Harley Dartt

CERAMIC COLLECTION

School of Art and Design students at East Carolina University now have access to a unique ceramics art teaching tool through a gift by former Asheboro art teacher and N.C....

ECU student Mila Bolash, left, portrays Edwin Drood and Drew Wells portrays John Jasper in
Nov 13, 2018
  • Bri Deel

‘THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD’

The East Carolina University School of Theatre and Dance is bringing the hilarious, interactive whodunit mystery musical,“The Mystery of Edwin Drood,” to the stage. The musical is based on an...

Dr. Gene Tranbarger, the first male president of the NCNA and an ECU faculty emeritus, speaks during the College of Nursing Diversity Day event on Nov. 1 as assistant professor Dr. Thompson Forbes and incoming American Nurses Association president Dr. Ernest Grant look on.
Nov 13, 2018
  • Natalie Sayewich

MEN IN NURSING

Why does diversity matter? This was the question that directed a conversation held recently at the East Carolina Heart Institute featuring trailblazers of the nursing profession sharing insights with current...

Brody School of Medicine student Dylan Flood pauses to speak to a victim while assessing another during the interprofessional mass casualty simulation at the College of Nursing on Nov. 10. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Nov 13, 2018
  • Natalie Sayewich

DISASTER DRILL

Nursing and medical students rushed toward the yelling and moaning that echoed through the College of Nursing on Saturday morning. When they arrived at the frenzied scene of bodies and...

Nov 12, 2018
  • Peggy Novotny

DENTAL STUDENTS DON WHITE COATS

The ECU School of Dental Medicine bestowed clinical white coats upon 51 students in the Class of 2021 during a ceremony on the evening of Nov. 8. The event signaled...

Dr. Gary L. LeRoy, president-elect of the American Academy of Family Physicians, left, presents Dr. Kendall Campbell, interim senior associate dean for academic affairs at ECU’s Brody School of Medicine, an award celebrating Brody’s track record of producing family physicians. (Photo by Cliff Hollis)
Nov 09, 2018
  • Rob Spahr

FAMILY MEDICINE LEADER

No other medical school in North Carolina – and only one other in the nation – has produced a higher percentage of family physicians in the last decade than the...

Computer science ’18 alumnus Magus Pereira, far right, was part of a team that won IBM’s first Call for Code Challenge, a competition whose inaugural theme focused on natural disaster preparedness and relief. The winning team also included, pictured left to right, Taraqur Rahman, Bryan Knouse and Nick Feuer. (Photo by Call for Code)
Nov 07, 2018
  • Michael Rudd

WINNING COMBINATION

Thanks to skills acquired as an East Carolina University computer science graduate, access to resources that encourage innovation, and mentorship and business planning from the Miller School of Entrepreneurship, Magus...