College of Sciences Newsletter   Edition 32                  January 21, 2008

Faculty News







Butler Selected By World Bank Global Fund To Help Improve Coral Reef Management Mark Butler, an Old Dominion University biologist, is among a select group of researchers who have been tapped for a research program sponsored by the World Bank Global Environment Fund to help improve coral reef sustainability and management... Musselman On “With Good Reason “ Radio Program NOV 15
Lytton John Musselman, the Mary Payne Hogan Professor of Botany and chair of the Department of Biological Studies at Old Dominion University, discussed his new book about the plants of the holy lands as a guest on the public radio show “With Good Reason,” which aired on stations throughout Virginia Nov. 10-16...
Butler’s $2.4 Million NSF Grant To Aid Blue Crab Population
Blue crab populations along the Atlantic coast could get a boost from a research project being undertaken by scientists at Old Dominion University and the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences under a $2.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH)...
Kuhn Elected APS Fellow, Boosting Standing Of ODU Nuclear Physics Group
Sebastian Kuhn, Old Dominion University professor of physics and eminent scholar, has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), increasing to12 the number of the university’s physics faculty members to have been so honored...
Xu Research Group Reports Advances In Using NanoParticles For Probes Of Living cells And EmbryosJuly 26
In two new articles published in national journals, the research group led by Old Dominion University chemist and biochemist Xiao-Hong Nancy Xu reports major advances in using nanoparticles as probes for the imaging of living cells and zebrafish embryos...
ODU Psychologist Studies Dangerous Driving
Old Dominion University psychologist Bryan Porter and his research team will help the state of Virginia develop and evaluate traffic safety programs, including new initiatives against drunken driving, under a grant from the commonwealth’s Department of Motor Vehicles...
Weinstein, Adam Collaborative On Book On “How To Estimate”
Have you ever wondered how big your feet would need to be to allow you to walk on water?
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