Match Day brings cheers, tears
GREENVILLE, N.C. (Mar. 18, 2004) — The annual rite of passage for medical students known as Match Day was the cause of much celebration March 18 at the...
Jeannine Manning Hutson Archives
Craftsman begins work on bookcases for library
A second-generation classic cabinetmaker has begun making the bookcases to house the historic book collection of the Laupus Health Sciences Library. Paul Gianino studied with his father for years and...
Scientist honored with university award
A professor of pharmacology and toxicology at the Brody School of Medicine has received East Carolina University's highest research honor. Dr. S. Jamal Mustafa is the 2003 recipient of the...
Amowitz looking to improve the world, one day at a time
Lynn Lieberman Amowitz remembers trying to give her winter coat to another child in sixth grade. "I perceived the child as poor, and I kept giving the kid my coat....
ECU lands role in NIH study of weight-loss surgery methods
East Carolina University, building on a national reputation of excellence in bariatric surgery, is one of six centers designated by the National Institutes of Health to work together to develop...
ECU team completes 100th robot-assisted mitral valve surgery
Dr. W. Randolph Chitwood and his surgical team have performed their 100th robotic cardiac mitral valve repair using the da Vinci Surgical System--a milestone for robotic surgical technology and minimally...
Country doctor museum deeded to ECU
Ownership of the Country Doctor Museum in Bailey has been transferred to the Medical Foundation of East Carolina University. The museum will become part of the Laupus Health Sciences Library's...
Medical grads turning away from primary care, study shows
Fewer graduating medical students are choosing primary care residencies, according to a study co-written by a professor at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University and published in...
Students, professors benefit from new classroom tools
Out with the dingy orange-and-gold seats, in with high-tech seating complete with receptacles for charging laptop computers. Out with overheads, in with computerized presentation tools that put PowerPoint to shame....
ECU pediatrician earns clinical scientist award from NIH
A pediatrician at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University has won the highly competitive National Institutes of Health Mentored Clinical Scientist Development Award supported through the National...