Benjamin Abel Archives

Jan 15, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Nursing students learn to balance language translation with legal rules

Members of the health care work force are presented with a dizzying array of challenges in treating patients. Bilingual nurses, doctors and allied health professionals have an additional layer of...

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Jan 08, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Writing AI

Writing teachers have always contended with emerging technologies that spelled impending doom for the future of student success in composition classrooms. Professors in the English department are finding innovative ways...

Jan 08, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

ECU faculty work to understand how to teach writing in the age of AI

When we try to predict the future, sometimes we are way off base. Flying cars, recreational space flight (well, that’s not such a reach anymore) and world peace all seemed...

Three people sit in front of computers, two wearing headsets. The closest woman is smiling and writing on a yellow pad of paper.
Jan 08, 2025
  • Benjamin Abel

Students come to terms with how to use AI in the classroom

In classrooms across East Carolina University’s campuses, faculty and students alike are grappling with how to use artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the classroom — how to balance new ways...

A group of 16 women and men in dress clothes pose in an office with a large wooden desk and gold drapes framing a window.
Dec 04, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

Pirate nurse selected for prestigious White House Fellows program

Dr. Michael Kennedy, a Pirate acute care nurse practitioner from Morehead City, was announced Oct. 3 as a member of the 2024-25 class of White House Fellows, an incredibly rare...

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Dec 03, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

Physician assistant students learn how to incorporate culinary medicine into future practice

East Carolina University’s Department of Nutrition Science has piloted a program to teach future health care providers the ins and outs of food, and how to prepare nutritious meals, so...

Nov 13, 2024
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  • Spaine Stephens

Doctor’s three decades of service leaves lasting impact on medical training

Dr. Walter “Skip” Robey retired in October after more than 30 years of service at the Brody School of Medicine, but his lasting legacy will be the medical simulation program...

Nov 11, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

ECU’s first doctoral occupational therapy class sets sail

East Carolina University has taken a huge step forward in providing world-class patient care in North Carolina through the establishment of a doctoral-level occupational therapy degree program, which officially admitted...

Nov 06, 2024
  • Benjamin Abel

Nursing alumni prove ECU’s commitment to service after Hurricane Helene

When Hurricane Helene rolled into western North Carolina in late September, Pirate nurses — from the mountains to the coast — dropped what they were doing and rushed to storm-ravaged...

Kim Briley and six of her family members smile and pose with her framed Order of the Long Leaf Pine award outside the Brody Medical Sciences Building.
Oct 15, 2024
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  • Kelly Rogers Dilda

ECU Order of the Long Leaf Pine award recipients

Retired East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine researcher Kimberly Briley and ECU audiology program alumnus Dr. Johnnie Sexton received the Order of the Long Leaf Pine in September. The...