Ronnie Woodward Archives

A game of Spikeball is enjoyed at the ECU Eakin Student Recreation Center. (ECU News Services photo)
Apr 04, 2024
  • Ronnie Woodward

Gold recognition for exercise program at ECU

The Exercise is Medicine program by the American College of Sports Medicine honored East Carolina University with Gold Campus level recognition for creating a culture of wellness on campus. ECU's...

Panelists, including Drs. Bhibha Das and Sharon Ballard, answer an audience question at the Women Leaders at ECU Panel event held March 28. (Photos by Rhett Butler)
Apr 01, 2024
  • Ronnie Woodward

Das, Ballard participate in ECU leaders panel

With Drs. Sharon Ballard and Bhibha Das, the College of Health and Human Performance represented half of the panelists at the third annual Women Leaders at ECU panel event. Themes...

Interactions at a North Carolina School Health Training Center education session.
Mar 27, 2024
  • Ronnie Woodward

New NCDPI grant to support student, families

Jamie Williams earned two years, $421,068 in funding from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction to lead and provide professional development opportunities to teachers and school staff to properly...

Mar 20, 2024
  • Ronnie Woodward

Osborne earns social work lifetime achievement award

East Carolina University Master of Social Work alum Glenn Osborne earned a lifetime achievement award from the National Association of Social Workers North Carolina Chapter. NASW-NC uses this honor to...

Members of the ECU Women's Roundtable pictured.
Mar 18, 2024
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Updates from Professionally Purple Closet

The ECU Women's Roundtable showed its support of Professionally Purple Closet with a financial donation and a recent visit to the Rivers 143 location. The College of Health and Human...

Models get ready for the 2023 student-led Apparel and Interior Merchandising Organization fashion show. (ECU News Services photos)
Mar 18, 2024
  • Ronnie Woodward

Annual AIMO fashion show is April 14

"Glitz and Glam" is the theme of this year's Apparel and Interior Merchandising Organization fashion show. The theme is inspired from a red-carpet runway. The show is scheduled April 14...

Johanne Hyde exercises at the ECU Fitness, Instruction, Testing and Training Building, which serves as an exercise training facility for research studies. (ECU News Services photo)
Mar 15, 2024
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WNCT: Pregnancy research featured

WNCT featured the advances and continued research being conducted within the East Carolina University College of Health and Human Performance about prenatal exercise and its effects on mothers and babies....

Students in CPR training.
Mar 14, 2024
  • Ronnie Woodward

Options for HEP safety education training

Sue Raedeke has taught more than 1,200 participants since 2013 in safety education training (CPR/AED, First Aid, Basic Life Support) as part of the Department of Health Education and Promotion...

A farm field is pictured in Edgecombe County, a neighboring county of Pitt County. (ECU News archived photo by Cliff Hollis)
Mar 14, 2024
  • Ronnie Woodward

WNCT feature: Farmworker research progresses for safety

Dr. Joseph Lee and other team members completed a 1,034-person survey of farmworkers in North Carolina and results were presented recently to the Association of American Pesticide Control Officials in...

Students participate in an Air Force ROTC drill.
Mar 13, 2024
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ECU empowering providers to support military spouses

Dr. Kayla Fitzke earned East Carolina University and the College of Health and Human Performance a role in the OneOp inter-university cooperative agreement project aimed to further the services professionals...