Benjamin Abel Archives

East Carolina University nutrition science students prepare and serve an Italian lunch in the Rivers Building.
May 18, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

HANDS-ON NUTRITION

Food makes life richer, more enjoyable. It solidifies culture and fosters unshakable foundations for families. Food assists with super-human endurance and strength or can destroy a body’s ability to sustain...

East Carolina University occupational therapy professor Anne Dickerson and film associate professor Erick Green partnered to create a film to educate emergency workers about elderly driver safety.
May 16, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

SERVICE FILM

What happens when a left-brained clinical researcher, a right-brained film production professor and a crew of East Carolina University students and alumni work together on the issue of older driver...

East Carolina University College of Nursing student Esther Olajide took on the extra challenge of a military deployment in Africa while pursuing her degree.
May 01, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

SAILOR, NURSE

STATISTICS Name: Esther Mayowa Olajide College: College of Nursing Major: Nursing Age: 25 Classification/Year: Senior Hometown: Charlotte, North Carolina Hobbies/interests: Dancing, reading, exercising, DIY projects/YouTube-ing, cooking. Clubs and Organizations: East...

Kim Larson, left, Ganna Rozumna and Natalia Sira discuss a nursing collaboration project. Larson is the first member of East Carolina University's College of Nursing to receive a Fulbright Scholar award.
Apr 24, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

NURSING FULBRIGHT

Kim Larson, an East Carolina University professor of nursing, learned in February that she would be the first member of the College of Nursing to receive a Fulbright Scholar award,...

Mar 22, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

ECU medical students establish ‘doula-like’ volunteer program

Getting through medical school can be tough — long hours, books and tests, and more books. However, between classes and all-nighters, two students from the East Carolina University Brody School...

East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine student Merdi Lutete, left, celebrates with her father, Masiala Ngoma, during Match Day 2023. Fourth year medical students from across the country learned where they will spend the next part of their careers in residency.
Mar 17, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel
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MATCH DAY 2023

In a ceremony laced with excitement, anticipation and tradition, fourth-year medical students in the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University learned where they will spend the next three...

Mar 13, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

ECU allied health programs receive approvals to increase offerings

Two programs within East Carolina University’s College of Allied Health Sciences have received approval to increase their course offerings, including expansion of ECU's bachelor’s degree in clinical laboratory sciences and...

The East Carolina University College of Nursing’s Courtney Caiola, Becky Bagley, and John Smoot played a pivotal role in helping a nursing student care for her newly adopted child.
Mar 02, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

DONATION OF LOVE

Sometimes it takes a village. And a caravan. And complete strangers. Julianne Szymanski has been a labor and delivery nurse for a decade and a half. She has had a...

Kuan-Hung Chen, an IT consultant with the East Carolina University College of Nursing, works on graphic elements of a virtual reality game used to teach students.
Mar 01, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

GAMING HEALTH EDUCATION

Sometimes gaming doesn’t mean playing a game. In June of 2022, Josh Peery, a game designer and instructional technology consultant for East Carolina University’s College of Nursing, was asked to speak...

Feb 24, 2023
  • Benjamin Abel

COVID-19 immunity study shows natural immunity wanes quickly

Public health researchers from East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine, led by Suzanne Lea, have finalized their findings of the Pirates’ Prevention and COVID-19 Testing Study (PiratePACT) study of...