Solar Array Installed by Dominion Virginia Power Unveiled on Roof of ODU's Student Recreation Center
Old Dominion University's Student Recreation Center will continue to play its role as a central hub of the ODU campus, providing recreation, fitness and classroom space to thousands of people every day. But the building on the west side of the ODU campus will now also provide a vital service to the company, thanks to an innovative partnership with Dominion Virginia Power.
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Tim Seibles to Receive Saginaw Valley State University Poetry Prize
Old Dominion University faculty member and acclaimed poet Tim Seibles has racked up another accolade for his book "Fast Animal," which was a National Book Award Finalist in 2012. This time, Seibles was chosen to receive the 13th Triennial Saginaw Valley State University Board of Fellows Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize.
David C. Earnest Appointed Associate Dean in College of Arts and Letters
Old Dominion University associate professor of political science David C. Earnest has been appointed associate dean for graduate studies and research in the College of Arts and Letters.
Solar Energy Tracking System Research Earns CIT Grant
A multidisciplinary research project aimed at improving the technology used in tracking systems for rooftop solar installations, has received a $25,000 grant from Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology.
ODU's Igloria To Be Interviewed on Her Poem a Day Project on "With Good Reason"
Luisa Igloria will speak about the arduous creative exercise of writing a poem every day when she's interviewed July 17 on the public radio program "With Good Reason," in Hampton Roads.
ODU's Agarwal Points to Defense Expenditure as Key Indicator of the Health of Hampton Roads Economy
In a presentation Tuesday, July 8, at a networking event sponsored by the Daily Press business publication TidewaterBiz, Vinod Agarwal, interim dean of Old Dominion University's Strome College of Business, warned that private sector economic growth will have to accelerate to keep growing the economy in a time of flat or even reduced military expenditure.
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Across Campus - A Photo Essay
Researchers with Old Dominion University's Water Quality Lab were recently photographed preparing for the first of 15 upcoming trips, on the research vessel R/V Fay Stover, to gather water quality data on the Chesapeake Bay. The research season runs July 1, 2014, through June 30, 2015. The tests, which are conducted throughout the bay to the Maryland border, began in 1984 and cover 27 data collection stations. Photos by David Hollingsworth.
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Photo: Chuck Thomas
Old Dominion University's fine arts program got a huge boost recently with the opening of the newly constructed Barry Arts Building in the University Village. Here, Laura Rebecca Phillips, a senior painting, drawing and design major from Pensacola, Fla., participates in a composition class held in one of the building's studio classrooms.