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Mar 21, 2016
  • ECU News Services

A LASTING LEGACY

East Carolina University will host A Legacy of Leadership week on March 21-23 to spotlight a number of initiatives launched for faculty, staff and students during Chancellor Steve Ballard’s tenure....

Fourth-year Brody medical student Demetria Watford learned that she matched with the family medicine residency program at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte during the Brody School of Medicine Match Day ceremony. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Mar 18, 2016
  • Amy Adams Ellis

NEXT STEPS

Today, as fourth-year medical students across the country attended Match Day ceremonies to find out where they will train the next few years as resident physicians, the Brody School of...

Mar 18, 2016
  • ECU News Services

A message from Chancellor Ballard:

Today East Carolina University police arrested an East Carolina student on charges of simple assault and ethnic intimidation in connection with an incident that occurred on our campus Thursday, March...

This image is from a 2013 exhibition of the Veterans Book Project held at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Monica Haller, a visual artist, founded the Veterans Book Project which has helped dozens of war veterans to archive their experiences as well as those of their family members. Photographs and stories are used to initiate healing and understanding at workshops across the country. This is the first time the Veterans Book Project will be held at ECU. (Contributed photos)
Mar 17, 2016
  • Crystal Baity

IN THEIR OWN WORDS

A workshop and book project that encourages veterans and their families to write about their wartime and lifetime experiences is coming to East Carolina University in April. The Veterans Writing...

East Carolina University students seeking degrees in medicine, nursing and rehabilitation counseling are in some of the best graduate programs in the nation according to a new ranking by U.S. News & World Report. ECU has a total of 18 programs ranked in U.S. News’ 2017 Best Graduate Schools released March 16. (Photo by Mike Litwin)
Mar 16, 2016
  • Crystal Baity

AMONG THE BEST

East Carolina University graduate programs in medicine, nursing and rehabilitation counseling have been ranked among the nation’s best by U.S. News & World Report. “These are extremely strong programs with...

ECU nursing and medical students work together to protect their “patient” – an egg – during an egg drop activity earlier this semester meant to teach collaboration and quality improvement. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Mar 16, 2016
  • Jackie Drake

RAISING VALUE

This was not your typical elementary school egg drop. Instead of basic physics, quality improvement was the name of the game for students in the College of Nursing and the...

Symposium attendees and visitors had an opportunity to handle non-venomous snakes like this black hognose snake, but not the rattlesnakes, copperheads and water moccasins. (Photos by Cliff Hollis)
Mar 14, 2016
  • Jules Norwood

SERPENT SPOTLIGHT

North Carolina ranks first in the country for venomous snakebites, so East Carolina University was the perfect setting for Venom Week V, a conference on venomous creatures and the medical...

Mar 11, 2016
  • Amy Adams Ellis

‘GOING THE EXTRA MILE’

Fifteen clinicians across ECU Physicians have earned national recognition for their skill in providing high-quality care to patients with diabetes. The clinicians received the three-year Diabetes Recognition Program distinction from...

Mar 11, 2016
  • Jules Norwood

ENERGIZED

A unique collaboration of academic experts and industry professionals in the field of renewable energy is gathering data and developing technologies that could play a key role in the future...

Mar 09, 2016
  • Elizabeth Willy

THE HEART OF HEALTH CARE

Dr. Elaine Scott likes to imagine a world where it's common practice for health care organizations to invest in nurses throughout their careers. And now she and the East Carolina...