MOHAMMAD KARIM, ODU RESEARCH VP, IS ELECTED IEEE FELLOW

Mohammad A. Karim, vice president for research at Old Dominion University, has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), which is an honor bestowed each year on no more than one-tenth of one percent of the organization's voting membership throughout the world.

WITH $7.9 MILLION FTA GRANT, MASSACHUSETTES COMPANY WILL WORK WITH BCET RESEARCHERS ON NEW MAGLEV

Old Dominion University and its BCET research team in magnetic levitation (Maglev) has been working with a Massachusetts company that specializes in Maglev technology and is preparing to do prototype testing on an innovative Maglev system on the elevated guideway located on campus.