Benjamin Abel Archives

Dr. Leigh Cellucci, CAHS associate dean for academic affairs and professor of health services and information management, walks on a Roman road with Bulgarian peer Dobrinka Georgieva, professor in speech language pathology, at the Medical University of Plovdiv. (Contributed photos)
Nov 30, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

BULGARIAN OUTREACH

Faculty members from East Carolina University’s College of Allied Health Sciences are expanding the university’s mission of service past the state’s borders — across the Atlantic to the Black Sea...

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Nov 28, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

Environmental health researcher tackles medical school

Radhika Dhingra already had the letters ‘Dr.’ before her name before she stepped foot into the Brody School of Medicine as an East Carolina University student. Born and raised in...

Nov 16, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

SPEECH PARTNERSHIP

Erin Baginski lives about as far from eastern North Carolina as a person could drive to, but she’s every bit a Pirate and represents a pair of very successful partnerships...

Oct 26, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

Midwifery Grant

At the end of September, officials at Betsy Johnson Hospital in Harnett County announced they would end labor and delivery services due to “declining demand for maternity services, recruitment challenges...

Oct 19, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

ECU alum leads N.C. rehabilitation hospital to leadership on the global stage

In time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first graduating class of East Carolina University’s occupational therapy program, a large constellation of nonprofit therapy and rehabilitation hospitals and clinics,...

Oct 17, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

Scholarship-sponsored travel helps ECU nursing student with Spanish skills

Madiha Abdelhakim, a senior nursing student from Cary, spent part of the past summer, like a number of undergrads, traveling with her roommates in Europe. Her month in Spain, however,...

A wet bulb globe device used by Dr. Elizabeth Mizelle and her students
Oct 04, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

HEAT RESEARCH

Nurses take vital signs at a visit to the doctor. They are the constant at the hospital bedside, caring for our loved ones and answering endless questions. And they are...

Oct 03, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

ECU professor honored as NCNA Education Nurse of the Year

Dr. Mark Hand, an East Carolina University clinical nursing professor, was named the Education Nurse of the Year by the North Carolina Nurses Association at a gala event Sept. 14...

Members of the North Carolina State Highway Patrol practice CPR at the Brody School of Medicine’s simulation center Aug. 23.
Sep 20, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

FIRST RESPONDER SIMULATION

The clinical simulation center at East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine is usually peopled with fresh-faced students in scrubs and running shoes with tousled college-kid hair. During the first...

Benjamin Brisard, a second-year Ph.D. student in East Carolina University's Interdisciplinary Program in Biology, Biomedicine and Chemistry program with a concentration in biology, works on fertility research at the Life Sciences and Biotechnology Building.
Aug 30, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

FERTILITY RESEARCH

East Carolina University research scientists, two from the Brody School of Medicine and another from the Department of Biology in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences, received nearly $2...