Faculty: Mostafa Namian
The large book with small print totals 718 pages of complex safety regulations that cover all kinds of scenarios. “Obviously I don’t know all of it, and even if I...
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Cameroon Outreach
In early 2023, Jean-Emile Nguepi, the executive vice president and chief academic officer of the Institut Universitaire des Grandes Écoles des Tropiques (IUGET), a bilingual, English and French, higher education...
Zakaib turned to medicine during pandemic
Mohsen Zakaib’s path to service through medicine became clear during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Service during the pandemic forced him into new opportunities he says he wouldn’t have...
Ulffers aims to serve people of eastern North Carolina
Abby Ulffers ’23 is a Brinkley-Lane Scholar and earned a Bachelor of Science in public health. She aims to “grow into a physician who has a platform to serve the...
Castañeda fulfilling a long-time dream with medical school
The idea of becoming a physician was planted in Eduardo Castañeda at 7 years old through interaction with his mother’s cardiologist. He took it upon himself to show Castañeda around...
Volunteering, children’s hospital experience led Smallwood to medical school
Baseball brought Christian Smallwood from Melbourne, Florida, to ECU. Surgery to correct season-ending injuries brought a career in medicine into focus and he is on course to become a physician...
STUDENT DOCTORS
Since the Brody Scholars program began in 1983, 154 students have received scholarships to attend East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine. The four newest recipients of the university’s most prestigious...
Staff: Shanice Hill
With more than 25,000 parking spaces on East Carolina University’s campus, Shanice Hill’s top priority is making sure that everyone who comes to campus feels welcomed. Hill is the customer...
OLYMPIAN’S POSITIVE MESSAGE
Retired athlete and U.S. Olympic gold and silver medal-winning gymnast Laurie Hernandez visited East Carolina University on Jan. 18 to share messages of acceptance, positivity and mental health advocacy with...
ROBOT SURGERY RESEARCH
Advances in medical technologies – from medicines and physical therapies to implants and surgical methods – come in a flurry that often seems impossible to keep pace with. One ethical...