Highlights

It's That Pumpkin Drop Time of Year

What is the sound of a pumpkin plummeting 100 feet to the ground from atop the tallest building on the Old Dominion University campus? Find out at the ODU Society of Physics Students' annual Pumpkin Drop at the Batten Arts and Letters (BAL) Building on Thursday, Oct. 30, beginning at 12:30 p.m.

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Algal Biodiesel Project Leaders Are Invited to Sea

Patrick Hatcher, the ODU faculty member who is executive director of the Virginia Coastal Energy Research Consortium, and Jes Sprouse, the entrepreneur who is working with Hatcher to develop Algal Farms Inc. in Prince George County, prepare to leave the Navy's Norfolk Air Station.

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Arnett Wins International Screenwriting Award

Robert Arnett, director of film studies and associate professor of communication and theatre arts, has won a PAGE International Screenwriting Award for his historical screenplay, "Datsun Saves." More than 3,800 entries were submitted, placing Arnett's script in the top 1 percent.

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Presidential Lecture with Sportswriter, Author Frank Deford Rescheduled for Oct. 23

Renowned sportswriter, commentator and author Frank Deford will be on campus Thursday, Oct. 23, as a guest speaker for the President's Lecture Series.

University Theatre Presents Its 2008-09 Season

Classical works from theatre and literature, mixed with modern-day techniques and adaptations, feature prominently in the performances slated for Old Dominion University's 2008-09 theatre season. Individual and season tickets are now available by calling the Arts and Letters box office at 683-5305.

Africa at ODU Day Scheduled for Oct. 16

"Politics of Development" is the theme for this year's Africa at ODU Day celebration, to be held Thursday, Oct. 16. Guest speakers will include Myrtle Witbooi and Hester Stephens, of the South African Domestic Service and Allied Workers' Union, and keynote speaker Welile Nhlapo, South African ambassador to the United States.

ODU's Noor and CAEE Have Prominent Roles in International Computer-Aided Engineering Summit

Ahmed Noor, the Old Dominion University William E. Lobeck Professor of Aerospace Engineering and director of the Center for Advanced Engineering Environments (CAEE), will deliver a keynote address and host tours of CAEE when NAFEMS, the influential international arbiter of standards in computer-aided engineering, comes to Hampton Oct. 29-31 to hold its 2008 North American Regional Summit.

Lecture and Book Signing to Commemorate 227th Anniversary of Victory at Yorktown

Alan Hoffman, translator of the first unabridged English version of Auguste Levasseur's "Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825: Journal of a Voyage to the United States," will speak at 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17, at the University Village Bookstore. The event, sponsored by Friends of the Old Dominion University Libraries, commemorates the 227th anniversary of the American and French Victory at Yorktown on Oct. 19.

"Race for the Presidency" Election Panel, Oct. 27

Old Dominion University's Department of Political Science and Geography will present a panel discussion on "The Race for the Presidency: The 2008 General Election" from 7-8:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, in the Batten Arts and Letters Building auditorium.

ODU Receives Honors at 2008 Golden Key Conference

Old Dominion University was honored at the 2008 Golden Key International Honour Society conference with gold-level chapter status. Beverly Forbes, ODU's Golden Key advisor, along with assistant advisor Erin Mills, two student members and one ODU graduate, attended the conference in New Orleans earlier this summer.

CCPO Speaker to Discuss Turbulence Near the Bottom of the Coastal Ocean

Erin Hackett, a doctoral student and National Defense Science and Engineering Fellow in Johns Hopkins University's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, will present her research on coastal waters bottom-boundary-layer turbulence in the fall seminar series of Old Dominion University's Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography at 3:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 20.

Bower Receives NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Carnegie Institution of Science for Earliest Life Studies

Dina Bower, who received her Ph.D. in ocean, earth, and atmospheric sciences from Old Dominion University earlier this year, has received a NASA fellowship to do postdoctoral work at Carnegie Institution of Science in Washington, D.C., where she will study new ways to detect evidence of the microbes that lived on Earth billions of years ago, and possibly on other planets as well.