Air Care
Growing up, Hunter Venters ’07 walked the fields of his family’s farms near Chicod in southern Pitt County, often seeing aircraft fly overhead. Today, he can hardly remember a time...
Benjamin Abel Archives
Nursing research uses video dramas to prevent HIV spread
Madeline Fernandez, during her nursing doctorate at the University of Miami, contributed to a groundbreaking project: a Spanish-language telenovela aimed at educating Hispanic women about HIV prevention. Titled Infeccion de...
Rehabilitation Leader
In time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first graduating class of East Carolina University’s occupational therapy program, a large group of nonprofit therapy and rehabilitation hospitals and clinics,...
Study by ECU medical student shows effects of wildfire smoke on infants
Radhika Dhingra already had the letters “Dr.” before her name before she stepped foot into the Brody Medical Sciences Building as a medical student. Dhingra completed her undergraduate education in...
Research team identifies new type of muscle
ECU physiologists and graduate students – as well as a high school student – have worked together over the past couple of years to discover and describe a muscle in...
Artillery Officer, Proud Pirate
For Maj. Daniel Self ’20, completing an online master’s degree in security studies at East Carolina University helped him to bridge the gulf between his experiences as a fires officer...
Game uses tech to teach nursing, medical students
Sometimes gaming doesn’t mean playing a game. For example, serious games, said Josh Peery, a game designer and instructional technology consultant for the ECU College of Nursing, are those that...
Grant to support minority public health graduate students at ECU
Eastern North Carolina, with its high levels of poverty and disadvantaged communities, is riddled with high rates of preventable chronic health conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease and obesity. The...