The Board of Visitors will meet Thursday, Dec. 9, at the new Virginia Beach Higher Education Center on Princess Anne Road.

The Academic Affairs and Administration and Finance committees will meet from 9-11:30 a.m.; the Institutional Advancement and Student Affairs committees will meet from 1-2:30 p.m. The full board is scheduled to meet at 2:30 p.m.

There is an urgent need for members of the campus community to help out with the university's Habitat for Humanity project, which is building a house at 509 W. 29th St. in Norfolk.

Faculty, staff or students who are interested in volunteering should call Sharifa Charlery, volunteer coordinator, in the Office of Student Activities and Leadership, 683-3446.

John A. Adam, University Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, will discuss the math of rainbows, clouds and animal fur for the next "With Good Reason" radio program.

Joining Adam on the half-hour show, "It's a Math, Math World," will be Daniele Struppa of George Mason University, who will look at the links between math and the humanities. The show will air on WHRV-FM at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 22.

A weekly interview program featuring outstanding faculty at Virginia's state-assisted colleges and universities, "With Good Reason" is a production of the Virginia Higher Education Broadcasting Consortium and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities in Charlottesville.

Bioethics expert Jonathan Moreno will be on campus Tuesday, Dec. 7, to discuss his recent book, "Undue Risk: Secret State Experiments on Humans."

The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 12:30 p.m. in the Burgess Room of the Batten Arts and Letters Building. It is sponsored by the College of Arts and Letters and College of Health Sciences, along with the Bioethics Network of Southeastern Virginia.

Moreno, an Emily Davie and Joseph Kornfield Professor of Bioethics and director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Virginia, has held full-time faculty appointments in philosophy departments at several universities, including the University of Texas at Austin and George Washington University. He has served as a senior staff member for two presidential commissions and testified before the U.S. House of Representatives..

In addition to his duties at UVa, Moreno is a senior research fellow at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University, a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine and an adjunct associate of the Hastings Center.

Members of the campus community can own a piece of Old Dominion athletic history when they purchase a piece of the original Field House floor.

Four distinctive plaques commemorating the great men's and women's basketball teams and the history of the facility, from 1970 to 1999, are now on sale by the athletic department. To view the plaques and to order, click on www.oducourt.com.

National mountain dulcimer champion Lee Rowe will be the guest artist for the next edition of Canterbury Coffeehouse, sponsored by Tidewater Friends of Folk Music and the Canterbury Center for Campus Ministry. The program is scheduled for 7:30-10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 26, at the Canterbury Center, 1526 W. 49th St.

Rowe is a Portsmouth native and winner of the annual competition at the Winfield (Kan.) Bluegrass Festival.

The Canterbury Coffeehouse, which opened in May, brings local professional and amateur musicians to campus on the last Friday of each month.

There is a suggested donation of $6 at the door for the Nov. 26 program, and snacks and nonalcoholic beverages will be available for purchase.

Musicians interested in performing for upcoming coffeehouses - Jan. 28, Feb. 25, March 31, April 28, May 26 and June 30 - should call Greg Anderson at 868-4761.

For more information about the coffeehouse call Susan Lawlor at 825-3530.

President James V. Koch and Christopher Colburn, associate professor of economics, received the 1999 ALLI Award from the Cultural Alliance of Greater Hampton Roads in recognition of their contributions to arts and culture in the area.

Named for its sponsor, the Cultural Alliance, the ALLI Award began in 1987 to provide a means for the arts and cultural community to publicly and collectively recognize the valued support they receive from individuals, businesses and the media. To be considered, a nominee's support in the form of grants, in-kind goods, services, space, volunteer hours or publicity must have directly benefited the arts and cultural community.

Koch and Colburn were selected for the award for an Old Dominion study on the economic impact of the arts and culture in Hampton Roads. The survey, authored by Colburn and released last June, showed nonprofit cultural institutions employed 7,617 workers who earned $123.3 million and generated $8.1 million in local taxes. The combined economic impact of these institutions in 1998 was $510.2 million, according to Colburn.

Faculty and staff are invited to attend an Old Dominion graduation tradition, the Senior Toast, at 4 p.m. Friday, Dec. 10, in the North Cafeteria of Webb Center.

Three seniors will be selected to speak to their fellow classmates at the toast, which is sponsored by the Office of Student Activities and Leadership.

Those planning to attend should RSVP by Monday, Dec. 6, by calling 683-3446.

Mark M. Zandi, chief economist and co-founder of Dismal Sciences, an economic consulting firm (formerly Regional Financial Associates), will speak to the Economics Club of Hampton Roads Monday, Dec. 6.

The talk begins at noon at the Sheraton Norfolk Waterside Hotel. It is sponsored by the Economics Club of Hampton Roads and the College of Business and Public Administration. Due to limited space, reservations are required for the luncheon. The cost is $30 for nonmembers.

As chief economist of Dismal Sciences, Zandi directs the company's research and consulting activities for commercial and investment banks, finance companies, insurance companies, pension funds, government and utilities.

His recent work includes a study of the determinants of personal bankruptcy, the identification of housing market imbalances, the location of high-technology centers and the impact of globalization and technological change on real estate markets.

For reservations call 683-3520.