After A 40-Year Career, Ron Johnson Retires
Ronald E. Johnson became interested in oceans when he played as a boy at the seacoast of his home state of Oregon. Two decades later, in 1968, he was recruited to be one of the first professors with the Institute of Oceanography of then-Old Dominion College...
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Faculty Honored At Annual Awards And Retirement Dinner
Michael Zugelder, associate professor of finance, is the winner of the 2007 A. Rufus Tonelson Faculty Award of the Old Dominion University Alumni Association, which was presented at the Faculty Awards and Retirement Dinner Tuesday, May 1...
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Global Marine Species Assessments Project At ODU Receiving Worldwide Media Attention
The Global Marine Species Assessments (GMSA) project, which is headquartered at Old Dominion University and led by marine biologist Kent Carpenter, is enjoying a high-profile month of June...
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Kathleen Lyons Quoted In National Geographic News
Kathleen Lyons, an assistant professor of biological sciences at Old Dominion University, was quoted as an expert on Pleistocene mammals in an article June 21, 2007, in National Geographic News... |
Michelle Kelley To Appeared On "With Good Reason" July 26
Michelle L. Kelley, Old Dominion University professor of psychology, was a guest on the public radio show “With Good Reason,” which aired July 21-26. She discussed her research concerning alcoholism among women... |
Noffke Elected Fellow Of The Geological Society Of America
Nora Noffke, assistant professor of geobiology at Old Dominion University, has been elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of America (GSA). The
recognition is for research establishing “microbially induced sedimentary structures” as evidence of the earliest life on Earth...
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ODU's Dobbs Publishes Commentary On Microbial Fallout From Hurricanes Katrina And Rita
Scientific assessments of the microbial fallout from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in New Orleans are the subject of a commentary by Old Dominion University oceanographer Fred Dobbs in the May 29 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)...
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ODU's Rule Serves As Judge In Faa Design Competition
Joseph Rule, the Old Dominion University biogeochemist who is interim dean of the College of Sciences, served as a judge in the Federal Aviation Administration’s 2007 Airport Design Competition for Universities... |
ODU Leads Initiative To Seek Renewable Energy Solutions
An initiative launched by the General Assembly and led by Old Dominion University will seek renewable energy solutions that could be put to use in Virginia... |
ODU's Dobbs To Appear On "With Good Reason"
Fred Dobbs, professor of oceanography at Old Dominion University and an expert on the ecology of microorganisms in ships’ ballast water, was a guest on the statewide radio program “With Good Reason” the week of April 28-May 4...
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ODU Research Team Advises The EPA On Nitrogen Standards
A team of researchers led by Old Dominion University oceanographer Margaret Mulholland has advised the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to be wary of proposals that would allow some industries and utilities in Virginia to meet more stringent nitrogen discharge standards simply by changing their bookkeeping...
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ODU's Musselman Helps To Organize 9th World Congress On Parasitic Plants
Lytton John Musselman, the Mary Payne Hogan Professor of Botany and chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Old Dominion University, was one of the organizers of the 9th World Congress on Parasitic Plants held during the first week of June in Charlottesville... |
Project Of ODU Physicists In Physics Today
Physicists at Old Dominion University are involved in an accelerator experiment that is shedding new light on the distribution of elementary quarks inside the proton, and the work is the subject of an article in the March issue of Physics Today... |
Oceanography's Dobbs Is Part Of Research Team Combating Invasive Species
A team of researchers led by Old Dominion University oceanographer Margaret Mulholland has advised the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to be wary of proposals that would allow some industries and utilities in Virginia to meet more stringent nitrogen discharge standards simply by changing their bookkeeping...
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