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Faculty researchers from the Batten College of Engineering & Technology have been awarded a $1.15 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to expand and enhance the undergraduate modeling & simulation program. Check out the story for more details on the effort which include fellowships for junior and seniors as well as partial fellowships for qualified freshmen and sophomores.

ODU Receives $1.15M from U.S. Department of Education to Enhance Undergraduate Modeling and Simulation Education By Sherry DiBari Researchers from the Batten College of Engineering and Technology at Old Dominion University have been awarded a $1.15 million U.S. Department of Education (DOE) grant to enhance the College’s modeling and simulation undergraduate program. The grant is managed by the Fund for the ...

Professor Margie Mulholland, from the Department of Ocean & Earth Sciences, is working with a team of scientists on a project to identify algae blooms early as part of a recent grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Check out the story for more details.

ODU professor creating “early warning system” for harmful algae in local waterways Researchers recently got a $3 million grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for the work to quickly identify algae species that thrive in warming waters.

Congratulations to Professor Justin Haegele, from the Darden College of Education & Professional Studies, on being named a 2024 Outstanding Faculty Award winner by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV). Check out the story for more about this recognition and his work in the field of adapted physical activity. https://www.odu.edu/article/odus-justin-haegele-earns-schev-outstanding-faculty-award?fbclid=IwAR0CbGURTdK4k2MjlZK-RrooT503Q1tNrAo5gR_9VLFicIBLHQ0y6J5BsTI

ODU’s Justin Haegele Earns SCHEV Outstanding Faculty Award By Victoria Bourne Professor Justin Haegele, director of the Center for Movement, Health & Disability in the Department of Human Movement Sciences and Special Education at Old Dominion University, has been named a 2024 Outstanding Faculty Award winner by the State Council of Higher Education for Vir...

A team of ODU faculty researchers have received over $700,000 in funding for a collaborative project to address recurring flooding issues using green infrastructure in Norfolk. Check out the article for more details on the project that will be facilitated by the Coastal Community Design Collaborative.

ODU Awarded Over $700,000 for Community Flood Mitigation Project By Sherry DiBari Old Dominion University has been granted over $700,000 for a collaborative project aimed at tackling recurring flooding issues using green infrastructure and nature-based designs in five underserved southside Norfolk neighborhoods.

Over thirty ODU faculty researchers from across campus were listed in the top 2% cited researchers in their field according to a recently updated database from Stanford University. Check out the article for more details and the faculty who are on the list.

ODU Researchers Among Top 2% of Scientists in the World By Victoria Bourne More than three dozen current Old Dominion University experts can count themselves among the top 2% cited researchers worldwide in their field, according to a recently updated database from Stanford University. Selections are based on the top 100,000 scientists, classified into 22...

An interdisciplinary team of faculty led by VMASC are working with York County School students to give them a virtual reality experience as part of their world language curriculum. Check out the story for details on the project and the innovative elements of the work.

ODU-VMASC Project Could Help York County World Language Students Travel Abroad Without Leaving the Classroom By Victoria Bourne It’s a beautiful morning in Mexico City. The streets are full of people celebrating Dia de los Mu***os – Day of the Dead. A student archeologist steps into a bustling square. "There's so much to see,” she says in Spanish to her companion, a historian and fellow student. “W...

ODU and the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility are launching a joint institute to address problems & disparities at the intersection of health & environment in Hampton Roads. The new institute, Advanced Computing for Environmental Studies, will bring together a team of scientists and university faculty from public health, geography, environmental health, computer science and physics. Check out the story for more details on the institute.

Jefferson Lab, ODU Launch Joint Institute on Advanced Computing for Environmental Studies Old Dominion University and the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility share a bond that goes back nearly 40 years, to the lab’s founding in 1984. Now, they’re taking their partnership to a new level. The fellow research institutions are launching a unique joi...

While helping out a graduate student with their research, Professor Tal Ezer, a researcher with the ODU’s Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography, found himself challenging a 120 year old oceanography theory. Dr. Ezer, Professor of Ocean & Earth Sciences, conducted over 20 computer models and recently published his findings in the Ocean Dynamics journal. Check out the story for more details the project.

ODU Professor Challenges 120-Year-Old Oceanography Theory By Tiffany Whitfield When Old Dominion University Ocean & Earth Sciences (OES) Professor Tal Ezer agreed to help a graduate student of biological oceanography on a research project, he didn’t know it would lead him to challenge a century-old oceanography theory.

ODU is partnering with Newport News Shipbuilding on the Monarch Accelerator Program to Engineering (MAP-to-E). The program is aiming to increase the number of engineering & engineering technology students from underrepresented and underserved communities in Hampton Roads. Check out the story for more details on the program and partnership.

New ODU Partnership with HII-NNS Aims to Increase Engineering Majors More than 22% of the engineering workforce at Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), a division of HII, are graduates of Old Dominion University. That number could rise dramatically. NNS, the largest industrial employer in Virginia and a division of the largest shipbuilding company in the United States, w...

ODU’s Virginia Institute for Spaceflight and Autonomy is part of partnership of organizations that recently launched a pilot project to use drones to deliver medical supplies on the Eastern Shore. Check out the story to learn more about the work that was part of a $1.87 million SMART grant from the U.S. Dept. of Transportation.

ODU’s VISA Helps Delivery of Hypertension Medications Using Drones on Eastern Shore Get Off the Ground An innovative partnership of Virginia for-profit and non-profit organizations, including Old Dominion University’s Virginia Institute for Spaceflight and Autonomy (VISA), recently conducted a successful launch of a groundbreaking healthcare initiative – funded by a U.S. Department of Transportat...

Faculty, staff and students from the colleges of Sciences and Engineering & Technology worked with a local community group, Teens with a Purpose, to share new techniques to plant in their community garden. Check out the story to learn more about their work this past summer.

ODU Biology & Engineering Faculty Help Teens with a Purpose Plant Gardens By Tiffany Whitfield During the summer of 2023, Old Dominion University Biological Sciences Professor Lisa Horth took time to help those in need in the Hampton Roads community. At Teens with a Purpose, located in Downtown Norfolk, Horth introduced staff and teenagers to gardening and some new techno...

Felix Ringer Ph. D., Assistant Professor of Physics with a joint appointment at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, was recently awarded a U.S. Dept. of Energy Early Career Research Award. Check out the story to learn more about his research and plans for the $875,000 award.

ODU Physicist’s Research into Quarks, Gluons Gets Boost from $875,000 Federal Grant By Tiffany L. Whitfield and Victoria Bourne In the beginning, there were quarks and gluons. According to the Department of Energy, a soupy plasma of these elementary particles permeated the entire universe until fractions of a second after the Big Bang. They were then frozen together as protons and....