University-Wide Service
Chair, Safety and Security Committee, 2021-2022
Member, Safety and Security Committee, 2020-2021
Member (Alternate), Reconsideration Committee, 2020-2023
Chair, Teaching Grants Committee, 2018-2020
- Facilitates the review, selection and recommendation of submitted teaching grant proposals from faculty members for teaching grant awards
Member, Teaching Grants Committee, 2014-2018
- Reviews, selects and recommends submitted teaching grant proposals from faculty members for teaching grant awards
Reviewer, ECU Honors College Application 2019-2020
- Reviewed 45 student applications for ECU Honors College for the academic year 2019-2020
Collaborator with ECU Prospective Health, Department of Comparative Medicine, and Office of Environmental Health and Safety in the assessment of occupational exposure to animal allergens in the ECU Brody School of Medicine animal facilities, August 2015 – present
Faculty Affiliate, NC Agromedicine Institute (NCAI), February 2012-present
- Serves as an adviser for the Institute on new initiatives and priorities, and to participate in Institute meetings and forum as venue to share research results, ideas, strategic planning, and funding opportunities
Faculty Affiliate, ECU Center for Sustainability: Tourism, Natural Resources, and the Built Environment, 2013-present
- Engages in research on sustainability related to built environment
ECU Office of Heathy Aging Research, Education and Services (OHARES), October 2015-present
- Appointed as a faculty affiliate to engage in transdisciplinary research to promote healthy aging
Member, Dictionary of Agromedicine Editorial Advisory Committee, August 2013 – 2015
- Invited as a member of the NC Agromedicine Institute (NCAI) committee, which is responsible for editing a Dictionary of Agromedicine that will be made available as a searchable database on the NCAI website
Faculty Judge, Research and Creative Achievement Week, April 2013 – present
- Judged undergraduate and graduate student posters under the Human Health and Biomedical Sciences categories
Departmental Service
Member, Department Personnel Committee, Department of Health Education and Promotion, 2017-2025
Member, Faculty Search Committee, Department of Health Education and Promotion, February – December 2020
- Served for 1 fixed-term faculty position within the Environmental Health Sciences Program
Chair, Faculty Search Committee, Department of Health Education and Promotion, October 2018 – July 2019
- Served for 1 tenure-track faculty position within the Environmental Health Sciences Program
Member, Department Diversity Committee, Department of Health Education and Promotion, 2017-2018
Member, Faculty Search Committee, Department of Public Health, March 2017 – July 2018
- Served for 2 tenure-track faculty positions within the Department of Public Health.
Member, Faculty Search Committee, Department of Health Education and Promotion, August – December 2016
- Served for 3 tenure-track faculty positions within the BS Public Health Studies (BSPHS) program
Member, Faculty Search Committee, Department of Technology Systems, February – July 2016
- Served for 1 visiting Assistant/ Associate Professor or Instructor faculty positions within the MS Occupational Safety (MSOS) program
Chair, Taking Care of Business (TOCB) Committee, 2020-present
Member, Taking Care of Business (TOCB) Committee, 2011-2020
- The TOCB committee is responsible for coordinating the circulation and delivery of cards and/or small gifts when someone experiences a birth, marriage, death, retirement or other major life event. It would also include the collection of money for the staff at the holidays and coordinating the annual holiday social.
Departmental Safety Representative, 2012-present
- Serves as the primary point of contact between the HEP department and EH&S, and assists directors, unit heads and/or department chairpersons meet their responsibilities for safety and compliance by facilitating implementation of safety, health and environmental programs and policy; prepares the annual safely self-inspection report for the department and submits to the Office of EH&S; updates the Department Emergency Evacuation Plan
Heavily involved in the promotion of the Environmental Health Sciences program through the update and maintenance of the “ECU Environmental Health Sciences Alumni and Friends” Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts, improvement of the older version of ECU EHS website, creation and update of the EHS Program blog site, and development of EHS recruitment and promotional videos (see below).
- ECU EH Student Research – Megan Rhyne
- ECU EH Student Research – Heidi Knecht
- ECU MS Environmental Health Student on Water Sampling for Benzene Analysis
- ECU Mosquito Barrier Spray Study
- ECU MS Environmental Health Student Conducting Research on Heat Stress among Groundskeepers
- ECU Environmental Health Students Performing CDC Bottle Bioassay for Mosquito Research
- ECU Environmental Health Students Performing Mosquito Field Research in Summer 2016
- ECU Environmental Health Students at the Research and Creative Achievement Week 2016
- CAPT Mike Herring Interview on the ECU Environmental Health Sciences Program
Coordinator, Annual World Environmental Health Day, East Carolina University, September 26, years 2016-2018.
- Coordinates activities (e.g., poster display, EH selfies) to celebrate World Environmental Health Day
Peer Class Observer, 2011-2019
- Provided substantial feedback to four peer-observed faculty members in 11 peer class observations