Bobby Ampezzan Archives

Fast-moving and turgid flood waters move down a moderate slope upon which a red brick ranch house sits partially submerged.
Feb 11, 2025
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Agromedicine Institute continues aid, outreach through western North Carolina’s hurricane recovery

Recovering from a natural disaster can be as harrowing as the event itself, and it does not discriminate, but it lands differently for farmers and farm families. Growers are tied...

Dec 11, 2024
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Hands-on experience gives high schoolers a look at their health sciences education

Success stories start as dreams we harbor in our youth. Career days such as the third Future Health Professionals Conference Nov. 23 help fill in the critical details that make...

Dec 04, 2024
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Donors, students celebrate scholarships that lighten the load of medical school debt

“It should not be the case that when you cross Interstate 95 you have a different life expectancy,” Dr. Michael Dale Warren told a crowd of donors and medical students...

Dec 02, 2024
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Brody School of Medicine’s Dr. Tom Irons honored with Spirit Award

Dr. Thomas “Tom” Irons, a retired East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine professor whose lifetime commitment to rural health care earned him a place in the state of North...

28 people stand in front of a long, low mound of sandy ceremonially shoveling dirt in front of two construction excavators strung with a large American flag.
Nov 22, 2024
  • Bobby Ampezzan

Center for Medical Education Building construction begins with ceremonial groundbreaking

East Carolina University leaders broke ground Thursday on a planned seven-story, 195,000-square-foot Center for Medical Education Building financed by the state of North Carolina. The project promises to make space...