Vivienne Budaza, executive director of Grandmothers Against Poverty and AIDS (GAPA), talks to residents at Norfolk’s Village Pointe Senior Apartments on 38th Street Friday morning. Budaza was one of five visitors from South Africa who were on campus last week for a book launch and photo exhibit highlighting the work of The Nevergiveups, a group of grandmothers within the GAPA organization. These women, who live outside Cape Town, provide economic, emotional and other support to women in their community who are faced with nursing sick children and raising grandchildren orphaned by the AIDS pandemic, while running an after-school education and nutrition program for 200 children who otherwise would be left unattended. Friday morning’s visit was coordinated by ODU’s Cecelia Tucker, assistant to the president for community relations. Photo by Chuck Thomas

Steve Zeil, associate professor of computer science, leads a discussion on leveraging technology for instruction for the Provost’s Conversations on Teaching and Learning series. Zeil has been offering online courses for more than 15 years, frequently teaching the same course in live and online versions during alternate semesters. The Oct. 10 presentation was in the Learning Commons Conference Room at Perry Library. Photo by David Hollingsworth

A select group of students had an opportunity to talk informally with President’s Lecture Series speaker Charles C. Mann last Tuesday afternoon prior to his address that evening. Photo by Steve Daniel

Virginia Pye gives a talk Thursday afternoon in Chandler Recital Hall for the ODU Literary Festival. Her award-winning short stories have been published in numerous literary magazines. She shared the stage with poet Remica Bingham-Risher, ODU’s director of writing and faculty development, whose second book of poetry was published earlier this year. Photo by David Hollingsworth

South African photojournalist Eric Miller talks with visitors at “The Nevergiveups” photo exhibition reception Wednesday at the Goode Theatre. Photo by Steve Daniel

Students examine the photographs on display at “The Nevergiveups” exhibition Wednesday afternoon at the Goode Theatre. Photo by Steve Daniel

The Student Activities Council offered a somewhat different diversion Thursday during activity hour in Webb Center: hand waxing. Ed Sevillano, a senior industrial technology major, has his wax hand cast removed while other students look on. Photo by David Hollingsworth

Jennifer Hernandez a sophomore nursing major from Woodbridge, Va., decided to go with different colored wax casts of her hands at Thursday’s student activity hour event. Photo by David Hollingsworth

Those associated with ODU’s Climate Change and Sea Level Rise Initiative no doubt paid close attention to the local flooding conditions that resulted from last week’s rain. Here, water from the Lafayette River inlet behind Rogers Hall begins to enter the parking lot Thursday afternoon. Photo by Steve Daniel