High Notes Old Dominion University Music Professor, eminent scholar and composer Adolphus Hailstork is internationally recognized for his musical compositions and performances. Though Hailstork has been a professor at ODU since 2000, he has been teaching music for nearly 40 years and describes his own musical style as having three different approaches: standard modern, avant-garde boutique and roots. He has been honored by ASCAP, invited to speak at The Julliard School, and has had his recent work premiered in cities like Houston and Cincinnati.

Knight Class ODU eminent scholar and professor of U.S. foreign policy Simon Serfaty was honored by French President M. Nicolas Sarkozy as a Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur (a knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honor) last year. Serfaty, who also holds the first Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., is the author of many books and publications and is a frequent expert witness for the U.S. Congress and national legislatures in Europe.

Global Wise From the Wall Street Journal and Harvard Review to Voice of America and the Far Eastern Economic Review, when ODU professor of business management Shaomin Li weighs in on global business and economics people listen. Li, an award-winning teacher of international business, brings his rich business background at multinational companies to Old Dominion classes to illuminate the wide range of social and administrative theories that the discipline integrates. A leading scholar, he has published several articles in the Journal of International Business Studies, the most prestigious publication in the field.

Good Counsel In the past year, three ODU faculty members in educational leadership and counseling have received some of the highest honors from the American Counseling Association, the premier counseling organization in the country. Ted Remley, the Batten Endowed Chair in Counseling, was named a Fellow of the ACA, the group's highest recognition. Associate professor Woody Schwitzer was honored for his research and scholarship with the Berdie Memorial Award and also for Outstanding Contribution to Professional Knowledge. Assistant professor Danica Hays was recognized with the Counselor Advocacy Award for her work with graduate students.

Wisdom in Teeth There probably isn't a dental hygienist in the country who hasn't studied, consulted or learned from a textbook written by ODU eminent scholar Michele Darby. The author of two of the field's most recognized and renowned teaching books, Darby has taught, wrote and inspired future generations of dental hygienists for more than 36 years. She was named an Outstanding Faculty Award winner by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia and serves as associate editor of the International Journal of Dental Hygiene.

Assessing Risk Batten Chair of Systems Engineering Adrian Gheorghe has long been regarded as one of Europe’s leading risk assessment engineers. At Old Dominion, he applies his analysis to a wide array of contemporary threats, such as terrorism, natural disasters, pandemics, cyber vandalism, and transportation or communication breakdowns.

Diary of a Trout Cynthia Jones, director of ODU’s Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology, has gained an international reputation in fisheries science through her research collecting and analyzing fisheries data, life history and strategies of important fish species in the Chesapeake Bay. Her most noted work, interpreting the geochemistry of the ear bones of fish to reveal their habitat history, has been funded by the National Science Foundation for more than a decade and has major implications for fisheries assessment.