August 24, 2007

News for Faculty, Staff, Students & Friends

Volume 37, No. 2

Gordon Art Galleries grand opening set for Sept. 9

Poet Nikki Giovanni is freshman convo speaker

ODU, EVMS to pursue joint programs

Governor appoints Barry Kornblau to Board of Visitors

Deaths of former faculty reported

Schlipphacke awarded Fulbright for research in Berlin

Laroussi to head new Laser &
Plasma Engineering Institute

Summer research on “Gilligan’s Island” was far from fun and games for doctoral student in oceanography

Information technology prof gets NSF grant for case-based design project

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PHOTOS BY STEVE DANIEL

Informants Arthur B. Kelly, above, leads a campus tour for prospective students and their parents the morning of Aug. 17. Although the fall 2007 semester kicks off this weekend, the admissions office will conduct tours throughout the year for future Monarchs. Kelly, a senior communication major from Newport News, is president of the ODU Student Ambassa-dors. At left, Adam Samson, a junior political science major from Woodbine, Ga., answers a student’s question at the Campus Information Center in Webb.

President Runte highlights both challenges and successes in annual address to faculty
In her State of the University address Aug. 22, President Roseann Runte spoke both of Old Dominion’s challenges and successes. Full story