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J.H. Rose High School student Noah Murray throws a baseball wearing a sleeve that transmits data on his movement.
Apr 12, 2018
  • Crystal Baity

SCIENCE MEETS FUN

Running, swinging, dancing and jumping are more than human movement. They’re biomechanics. And they’re fun. That’s the message that Dr. Paul DeVita and other East Carolina University faculty and students...

Apr 11, 2018
  • ECU News Services

MCMAHON NAMED COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER

Linda McMahon, Administrator of the United States Small Business Administration, will be the speaker for East Carolina University’s Spring Commencement Ceremony on Friday, May 4 at 7 p.m. McMahon’s visit...

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Apr 10, 2018
  • Spaine Stephens

PATIENTS AS TEACHERS

Ernestine Wilkins couldn’t recall having ever won anything — until Brody School of Medicine student Shahzeb Khan chose to honor her for the impact she had on his path as...

Apr 05, 2018
  • Harley Dartt

JACOBS RECEIVES GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP

East Carolina University School of Music composition and theory professor Edward Jacobs has received a prestigious Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. The foundation recognized Jacobs on April 4 for his work as...

Apr 04, 2018
  • Rob Spahr

IMPROVING PATIENT COMMUNICATION

East Carolina University students interested in careers in health care will soon have a new tool to help them better communicate with Spanish-speaking patients, a rapidly increasing segment of the...

Apr 03, 2018
  • Angela Todd

IMPROVING QUALITY OF CARE

A surgical oncologist at ECU’s Brody School of Medicine was recently awarded a grant aimed at improving the care provided to breast cancer patients across the region. Dr. Jan Wong...

Research by Dr. Jitka Virag, an associate professor in the Department of Physiology at the Brody School of Medicine at ECU.
Apr 02, 2018
  • Rob Spahr

ECU WINS NATIONAL COMPETITION

In a nationwide contest searching for the “best innovations in science and medicine” – out of a field of more than 64 prestigious institutions, including Harvard, Stanford, Yale and MIT...

Officials from the American Medical Association visited ECU’s Brody School of Medicine on March 29, 2018. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Apr 02, 2018
  • Rob Spahr

BRODY RECEIVES NATIONAL PRAISE

In 2013, 80 percent of the nation’s medical schools applied for grant funding through the American Medical Association’s Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative. East Carolina University’s Brody School of...

Mar 29, 2018
  • Crystal Baity

DESIGN CHALLENGE

East Carolina University interior design students are competing to create a new showroom design in Chicago’s Merchandise Mart. The showroom design contest is sponsored by furniture manufacturer Knoll, where alumna...

Photography by Rhett Butler
Mar 29, 2018
  • Bre Lewis

Student: Dan Hemme

Dan Hemme is a first-year graduate student in public administration with an emphasis in management at East Carolina University. He is also working toward his graduate certificate in development and...