RESEARCH CAREER AWARD
An East Carolina University researcher has earned a National Science Foundation Career Award for $1.2 million over five years to study synapse formation in brain development, which is vital to...
Spaine Stephens Archives
ECU leads blood pressure clinical trial using home monitoring, team approach
Researchers at East Carolina University will lead a five-year randomized clinical trial aimed at improving blood pressure control in rural and urban patients using targeted home-based monitoring and telehealth and...
ECU School of Dental Medicine awards first endowed professorship
Dr. Michael Webb was named the inaugural recipient of the East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine’s Jasper L. Lewis, Jr. Distinguished Professorship in Pediatric Dentistry during a July 21...
DOCTOR OF OT
East Carolina University’s College of Allied Health Sciences is set to offer a doctoral degree program in occupational therapy — the first at any public university in the state. “As...
Brody School of Medicine dean named to AAMC’s Board of Directors
Dr. Michael Waldrum, dean of East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine and chief executive officer of ECU Health, has been named to the board of directors of the Association...
ROSS LEAVES LEGACY
Dr. Ledyard E. Ross Jr., community orthodontist and benefactor of East Carolina University and the ECU School of Dental Medicine, died on the evening of June 28. He was 96....
ENDOWMENT HONORS BROWN
A scholarship endowment established in honor of Dr. Sylvia Brown, dean of the East Carolina University’s College of Nursing, is already the largest in the college to date — and...
ECU medical, dental students chosen as N.C. Schweitzer Fellows
Four students from the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University and two students in the ECU School of Dental Medicine have been named to the 2022-23 class of...
Student: Teresa Hupp
Teresa Hupp wants to follow in her mother’s and grandmother’s footsteps and become a nurse — but she also wants to make her own unique impression on the field. Hupp,...
Nora McCunney
A love for nursing runs strong through Nora McCunney because of volunteer experiences and family ties — but she hopes to make her own mark on the profession someday. McCunney,...