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...
Benjamin Abel Archives
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...
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...
ECU nursing faculty travel to Poland to lecture, explore student exchange opportunities
In the fall of 2022, Aleksandra Gaworska-Krzeminska, a nurse and faculty member from the Medical University of Gdańsk paid a long visit to her sister Ewa Silver, a marine archeology...
BACTERIA RESEARCH
The word biofilm is fairly intuitive — a coating made by a living thing. It’s not that simple, though. Not by a long shot. Bacteria make biofilms as a kind...
WHITE COAT CEREMONY
Lifelong dreams came one step closer to reality for the newest class of students in the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University as they were officially welcomed during...
ECU alum takes Pirate nursing to the skies
Jonathan Polak grew up in Pittsboro playing baseball. He dreamed of playing at college and did at North Greenville University in South Carolina. After a few years of schooling, his...
DUAL DEGREES
In April 2023, VCU Health in Richmond announced an inaugural chief nursing officer position. The 13-hospital McLaren Health Care system in Michigan did the same June 1, as did the...
ECU nursing student uses language, cultural skills to improve rural health care delivery
The majority of the counties in eastern North Carolina are classified as rural. While the state saw a downtick in migration overall in recent years, foreign immigrants moving to the...
Student: Bonnie Chen
Bonnie Chen was too little, just weeks old, to remember leaving Taiwan for North Carolina. She has returned back to visit her family nearly every year since because family is...