HHP News Archives

Oct 20, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

Barkin named associate dean for research

Dr. Nicole Bromfield, dean of the East Carolina University College of Health and Human Performance, is pleased to announce Dr. Jennifer Barkin as HHP’s new associate dean for research. She is scheduled to begin...

A college professor stands at a podium at the microphone.
Sep 29, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

HHP helps guide success of IPE event

Students in kinesiology and social work, joined by Drs. Bhibha Das and Kelley Reinsmith-Jones as faculty leaders, were active and engaged at a campus-wide interprofessional education event featuring hundreds of...

Sep 22, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

Inspirational alum Gillette featured by BYUTV

BYUTV's big stories series connected with East Carolina University alum Lex Gillette, who is blind and a Paralympian and world-class jumper. Gillette graduated from ECU in 2007 with a bachelor’s...

Two college students playing a mat coding game with young children in a library.
Aug 28, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

HHP Impact in Motion newsletter archives

Dean Bromfield and the ECU College of Health and Human Performance debuted a new HHP digital newsletter — Impact in Motion — in August 2025. Below are the monthly newsletters:...

Aug 01, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

MedFT’s new 2024-25 newsletter

Assistant professor and ECU Medical Family Therapy director Dr. Kayla Fitzke released the MedFT Newsletter for 2024-25. The newsletter highlights that the program reached its 20th anniversary, a significant milestone...

An airplane wing during flight over an ocean.
Jul 15, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

Media coverage: Flight mentorship and Hudson internship

Recent local media coverage of the ECU College of Health and Human Performance included a summer update from WITN on Delaney Hudson, a spring graduate in recreational therapy who walked...

A baseball coach first-bumps his college player near first base.
Jul 01, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

Kinesiology adds to its undergrad options

The Department of Kinesiology has added two new sport performance and coaching-focused undergraduate degree opportunities for its students via a Bachelor of Science in physical education and coaching science degree,...

People walking in the street and pushing people in wheelchairs for a race event.
Jul 01, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

Sport management fully implemented into RSSM department

The College of Health and Human Performance has made a department name change within the college, announcing the Department of Recreation Sciences and Sport Management to replace the former Department of...

Group of college graduates in their gowns.
Jun 25, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

Warner launches book to ‘honor ECU legends’

Near the end of Dr. Stacy Warner's new book, the author recalls a story about how she was welcomed her first day on East Carolina University's campus. "If I get...

Jun 04, 2025
  • Ronnie Woodward

Dr. Blanchflower: What I do at ECU

East Carolina University's "What I do at ECU" research video series recently featured another College of Health and Human Performance faculty member — Dr. Tiffy Blanchflower. The video highlights Blanchflower...