Benjamin Abel Archives

Jan 10, 2024
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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,...

Jan 10, 2024
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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...

Doctoral candidates Everett Minchew, foreground, and Nick Williamson work in the Spangenburg Lab at ECU.
Jan 10, 2024
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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...

Jul 10, 2023
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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...

Josh Peery, an instructional technology specialist with the College of Nursing
Jul 10, 2023
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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...

Dec 16, 2022
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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...