Nursing faculty graduate with students as DNPs
Three of East Carolina University’s College of Nursing RN to BSN faculty members switched roles for the fall 2024 graduation ceremony — turning their own tassels to become some of...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...