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Representatives from ECU, TEDI BEAR Children’s Advocacy Center and the Mount Olive community celebrate the Jan. 27 opening of the Mount Olive Children’s Advocacy Center.
Feb 03, 2023
  • Spaine Stephens

CHILDREN’S ADVOCACY

East Carolina University officially opened its Mount Olive Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC) last week during a ribbon-cutting ceremony, ushering in a much-needed resource for addressing child abuse cases in underresourced...

Elizabeth Bailey has choreographed a dance piece about healing from trauma that will be performed Saturday and Sunday in ECU’s Archie Burnette Studio Theatre.
Feb 02, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

‘PIECES OF US’

Elizabeth Bailey’s experience of healing from trauma inspired a collaborative research project and dance performance that will open on stage Saturday and Sunday. “Pieces of Us” will feature Bailey’s original...

Feb 02, 2023
  • Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall

FAMILY MEDICINE GIANT

A plaque on the newly named James G. “Jim” Jones Chair’s Suite in East Carolina University’s Department of Family Medicine honors Jones and an immense list of titles for which...

Photo by Rhett Butler
Feb 01, 2023
  • Ken Buday

Faculty: Randall Etheridge

From the freezing cold of Finland to hot and humid southern marshes, Randall Etheridge has experienced it all. It’s just part of his quest to help provide solutions to environmental...

ECU School of Dental Medicine student Cesar Pelaez is helped into his white coat by faculty members Hanan Elgendy and Luis Sensi during the school’s Jan. 27 White Coat Ceremony.
Jan 31, 2023
  • Spaine Stephens

DENTAL COATING CEREMONY

The East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine presented its second-year students their white coats on Friday marking the transition from preclinical work to the clinical phase of their dental...

Case study team members from the College of Allied Health Sciences pose before an award ceremony including Nina Thompson, from left, Claire Kraft, Robert Kulesher, Bradly Boaz and Gwendolyn Daniels.
Jan 27, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

HEALTH SERVICES MANAGEMENT

In late October, four East Carolina University students got gussied up and stood in a large, sun-splashed College of Allied Health Sciences conference room and presented their plan for how...

Jan 26, 2023
  • Meaghan Skelly

Student: Chloe Scattergood

As Chloe Scattergood enters the final semester of her master’s degree program in historical archaeology at East Carolina University, she wants people to know that her field isn’t just about...

Jason Higginson, Brody School of Medicine executive dean and chief health officer for ECU Health, took over command Jan. 21 of the Navy Reserve Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command–Bethesda.
Jan 25, 2023
  • Kelly Rogers Dilda

TAKING COMMAND

For someone who claims to not believe in multitasking, Jason Higginson certainly excels at it. In addition to serving as executive dean of East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine,...

East Carolina University's online master’s degree programs in nursing have been ranked in the top 10% in the U.S. for 2023.
Jan 24, 2023
  • Crystal Baity

ADVANCED DEGREES

East Carolina University’s online master’s degree programs in business, criminal justice, education and nursing are among the best in the nation in a new ranking by U.S. News & World...

East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine resident Charles Haddock explains a procedure to patient Santana McCoy at the school’s clinic in Hyde County.
Jan 23, 2023
  • Spaine Stephens

FULFILLING A PROMISE

Once a month, the post office building on Main Street in Swan Quarter also serves as the area’s only oral health care location for miles around. East Carolina University’s School...