Community Engagement in the News
Beaufort County
- Yeager facilitates classes that assist community partners
- PFI intern shares tales of Beaufort County businesses
- RISE29 empowers students, businesses in eastern North Carolina
- RISE29 Internship Team Partners with Nonprofit to Explore Canning Business
- ECU professor studying impacts of short-term vacation rentals on rural communities
- RISE29 interns share ideas at semester showcase
- ECU faculty to develop data to measure effect of substance abuse interventions
- ECU medical, dental schools partner to improve telehealth access
- ECU grant to benefit schools in three counties
- Social work major learns ins and outs of nonprofit with SECU PFI program
- Pirate intern monitors environmental health of region’s rivers
Bertie County
- ECU dental school brings school-based oral prevention program through Duke Endowment
- Bertie County Emergency Operations Plan Assessment and Update
- ECU-led group addresses housing needs in eastern North Carolina
- ECU medical, dental schools partner to improve telehealth access
- PSF Internship Profile: Tristen Newell
Camden County
Carteret County
- Students, staff provide helping hands across the state over spring break
- Expanded ECU services help NC women with high-risk pregnancies
- ECU Health, Brody School of Medicine innovate to solve maternal health challenges
- A passion for service
Chowan County
- ECU’s pregnancy health program expands to three counties
- New program helps ECU, Vidant train physicians to better serve rural communities
Craven County
- ECU volunteers make impact in New Bern
- ECU grant to benefit schools in three counties
- PFI intern helps refugees at New Bern ministry
Dare County
Duplin County
- ECU’s pregnancy health program expands to three counties
- New program helps ECU, Vidant train physicians to better serve rural communities
- ECU College of Education receives $1.6 million from two national science grants
- Healthier Lives at School and Beyond
- ECU providers offer health screenings to ENC schoolchildren via mobile unit
- ECU medical, dental schools partner to improve telehealth access
Edgecombe County
- Researchers tap technology targeting migrant workers in eastern N.C.
- Wellness day aims at disease prevention
Greene County
- Schweitzer Fellows bring oral health education to Pitt County Schools
- Researchers aim at heat illness among farm workers
Halifax County
- ECU grants outreach network
- ECU-led group addresses housing needs in eastern North Carolina
- Edwards connects with Weldon in Action’s mission as part of SECU PFI program
Hertford County
- New program helps ECU, Vidant train physicians to better serve rural communities
- ECU-led group addresses housing needs in eastern North Carolina
- Existing transportation program could be replicated to help increase access to care
- ECU medical, dental schools partner to improve telehealth access
Hyde County
- Innovation, community partnerships help ECU bring dental care to underserved Hyde County
- Hearst Foundations backs Hyde dental clinic, patient care fund
- ECU team gets grant to help communities adjust to sea level rise
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife grant funds study of bacteria in N.C.’s largest natural lake
- Saltwater intrusion research
- ECU dental school’s innovation transforms oral health care in rural North Carolina
Jones County
- ECU College of Education receives $1.6 million from two national science grants
- Healthier Lives at School and Beyond
- ECU providers offer health screenings to ENC schoolchildren via mobile unit
- ECU dental school kicks off Jones County school-based oral health program
- ECU student planning project helps town revitalization
- One year after Hurricane Florence, rural NC is still struggling. ECU is trying to help.
Lenoir County
- ECU intern bridging communities through arts council
- Biology major moves from the lab to the field with SECU Public Fellow Internship program
- Stamper finds purpose with Hope Restorations
- Partners in progress: Building teacher capacity in the pivotal early years
Martin County
- ECU-led group addresses housing needs in eastern North Carolina
- ECU medical, dental schools partner to improve telehealth access
- School wellness program stretches beyond N.C.
- ECU receives $1M grant for rural innovation, student businesses
- SECU Public Fellows intern emphasizes giving back to others
Nash County
- Wellness day aims at disease prevention
- ECU’s Country Doctor Museum partners with high school students to make history
- Museum to host free screenings
Northampton County
- ECU-led group addresses housing needs in eastern North Carolina
- ECU medical, dental schools partner to improve telehealth access
Pamlico County
Pasquotank County
- Dental school opens service learning center in Elizabeth City
- ECU medical, dental schools partner to improve telehealth access
- Partnership brings dental care to Elizabeth City adults
- Blue Cross NC funds ECU, ECSU partnership for student behavioral health services
Perquimans County
Pitt County
- Farmville’s Café Madeleine, RISE29 interns connect over confections
- ECU dental school’s annual clinic provides oral health care for migrant farmworkers
- Brody Scholars hold health fair at JOY Community Center
- Laupus Library, partners provide laptops to school-aged children of migrant farmworkers
- A passion for service
- RISE29 interns share ideas at semester showcase
- Event leads to oral history project remembering Black farming families in eastern NC
- Schweitzer Fellows bring oral health education to Pitt County Schools
- Pitt County Care Clinic offers community care led by ECU medical students
- New Campus Kitchen will bring hunger relief to Pitt County
- Biology major moves from the lab to the field with SECU Public Fellow Internship program
- ECU intern teaches students value of environment, service
- ECU intern partners with NC CIVIL to support West Greenville community
- SECU Public Fellows intern shares nonprofit’s message with region
- SECU Public Fellows intern emphasizes giving back to others
- Internship gives student chance to learn about self, others
- ECU intern planning Uptown’s future
Tyrrell County
Washington County
Wayne County
- Laupus Library, partners provide laptops to school-aged children of migrant farmworkers
- ECU partners with communities to open children’s advocacy center in Mount Olive
- Brown reflects on his summer internship through the SECU Public Fellows Internship Program
- SECU Public Fellows intern develops entrepreneurship resources for library
- ECU grant to benefit schools in three counties
Region
- Library staff secures grant to increase farmworker digital literacy, internet access
- ECU professor to study resiliency of coastal communities, vulnerable populations
- Continuing Response to Hurricane Florence
- Second annual bus tour partners researchers, regional leaders
- ECU puts focus on internet access, education in rural communities
- ECU’s culture of service enables a response to help businesses amidst pandemic and beyond
- ECU’s Economic Growth Collaboratory launches with focus on agriculture
- NC Agromedicine Institute helping farms stay safe, operational during COVID-19 pandemic
- ECU holds inaugural healthcare-centric interprofessional case competition
- ECU service van to aid veterans across eastern North Carolina
- Four Seasons concert truck delivers classical music experience to area youth
Regional Transformation Database
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