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Students from U.S. Fleet Forces Receive ODU Leadership Certificates
Innovative new program from ODU's College of Continuing Education and Professional Development taught multidisciplinary leadership skills.
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ODU's Early Childhood Policy Center Suggests How Virginia Can Become a Nationwide Model for Home Visitation Programs
More collaboration is the key to unlocking efficiencies, the experts found.
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Three Retiring Administrators Share 83 Years of Memories
Debbie White, Sue Mitchell and Mary Swartz retired June 30. They all left their mark on Old Dominion University.
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Three ODU Staffers Named 2016 Dream Fund Recipients
Old Dominion's 2016 Staff Dream Fund was awarded recently to three University employees who will soon be able to fulfill long-held wishes.
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Basco, Retired ODU Engineering Professor, Wins International Award
Basco received the 2016 International Coastal Engineering Award from the Coast, Oceans, Ports and Rivers Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Engineering Professor Chris Bailey Selected for NASA Summer Fellowship
Bailey is working 10 weeks at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.
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Across Campus - A Photo Essay
This week's gallery focuses on Building Leaders for Advancing Science and Technology (BLAST), a dynamic three-day residential summer camp attended by 80 Hampton Roads on the campus of Old Dominion University. Students explored STEM opportunities through hands-on sessions taught by faculty members and staff. Photos by Chuck Thomas and David Hollingsworth.
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Belle Knopf, a senior dance major, is pictured while practicing hoop dancing, a form of storytelling that dates back to Native American dances.