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More >ODU releases annual research figures
Old Dominion University's research and development expenditures reached $73.6 million in fiscal year 2007, according to its annual research report released last week. The report highlighted the university's growth in research spending which grew about $8 million compared to FY 2006 and has more than doubled since 2004.
Of that $73.6 million total, $40.6 million was expended through the ODU Research Foundation. ODU received $43.1 million in new research funding awards during the year and researchers submitted proposals valued at $135 million.
Spaceport investment paying off for Virginia
There are plenty of reasons why Orbital Sciences Corp. chose the
Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport (MARS) for its launching pad -
starting with familiarity and location. But it could only settle at
Wallops Island because the facility is still there, available to send
rockets into space. For that, the company can thank the
forward-thinking and investments of the governments of Virginia and
Maryland, not to mention a university named Old Dominion.
ODU Partnered Alliance to Build Wind Turbine Testing Facility
The Lone Star Wind Alliance, a partnership between various energy companies and research universities that includes Old Dominion University, has reached and agreement to build a new wind turbine testing facility in Ingleside, Texas.
The Large Blade Research and Test Facility (LBR&TF), being built in cooperation with the Federal Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), will be dedicated to testing and developing larger, next-generation wind power turbines.
LEAN INSTITUTE GETS SCHEV FUNDING FOR THE MARINE TECH PROJECT
The Lean Institute has been awarded funding for the "Marine Tech: STEM
preparation through Marine Science/ Engineering Projects." Marine Tech
is a collaboration between local shipyards, SNAME, school systems in
Hampton Roads and central Virginia and local marine science museums.
Wind power testing site gets green light
HOUSTON -- The University of Houston has completed an agreement with
the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
to design, construct and operate a state-of-the-art wind turbine blade
testing facility in Ingleside, Texas. UH will receive technical and
operational assistance from NREL as well as $2 million in equipment for
the Gulf Coast testing site. Construction is expected to be completed
in 2010. The Texas-NREL Large Blade Research and Test Facility
(LBR&TF) will be able to perform full-scale testing of turbine
blades up to 70 meters in length.
Asari Awarded New Patent
The U.S. Patent office has awarded a patent to Vijayan Asari, Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of Vision Lab at Old Dominion University for his development of a new image characterizing method.
The patented technology, titled "Color Image Characterization, Enhancement and Balancing," is the outcome of an outstanding research work done at the Old Dominion University Vision Lab by Asari, and Ming-Jung Seow who was a graduate student in Vision Lab when the application was filed in 2005.
Professor Nguyen Delivered a Keynote Lecture at an International Conference
Prof. Duc T. Nguyen, Civil & Env. Engineering Department, has been invited to deliver a KEYNOTE Lecture, "Large-scale Parallel Computation for Engineering/Science Applications", at the International Conference on Adaptive Structures: Mathematical Modeling & Computation, in Tangier, Morocco
Noor Represented ODU at ASME Conference
Batten College of Engineering and Technology's, Ahmed K. Noor, William
E. Lobeck Professor of Aerospace Engineering, eminent scholar and
director of the Center for Advanced Engineering Environments, was a
lecturer and panelist at the 2008 Annual Meeting for the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The conference was held June
7-11 in Orlando, Fla.
Kolb, Pakhomov of Bioelectrics Center Are Elected to Posts in International Societies
Juergen Kolb and Andrei Pakhomov, two researchers at Old Dominion University's Frank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics, have been elected to important positions in international science and engineering societies.
More >International Scholar from Korea visits EMSE and VMASC
Lieutenant Commander Young Cheon Jang (Navy of the Republic of Korea) is pursuing his Ph.D. at the Ajou University in Suwon, Korea. He is interested in net-centric applications and modeling and simulation in support of command and control. His research led him to proceeding and journal papers authored by researchers of Old Dominion University. He therefore made contact in February 2008 to find out if he can spend six months as an international scholar at the Virginia Modeling and Simulation Center.
More >Electrical Engineering Student Wins International Award
Thomas Camp, a doctoral student in electrical engineering at Old Dominion University and a researcher at the university's Frank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics, has received the High Voltage Association Student Excellence Award at the 2008 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Power Modulator Conference.A plaque and $1,000 honorarium were presented to Camp at the conference in Las Vegas on Thursday, May 29. He also received travel and registration grants to attend the conference.More >
ODU senior speaks with members of Congress in support of NASA
BAY AREA HOUSTON, TEXAS - From May 19-22, 2008, Maria Liberto, a senior at Old Dominion University's Batten College of Engineering and Technology, Norfolk, Va., traveled with 35 students and 111 other representatives on behalf of Citizens for Space Exploration (CSE), to Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., with a singular purpose - to support a robust space exploration program with a goal of investment in NASA set at 1 percent of the federal budget. The Coalition for Space Exploration, in conjunction with the Bay Area Houston Economic Partnership's Aerospace Advisory Committee, sponsored Liberto.
More >ODU students attend CARS conference in Barcelona, Spain
Six students from Rick McKenzie's Medical Imaging and Simulation class at Old Dominion University will headed off to Barcelona, Spain, on June 23 to attend the Computer Aided Radiology and Surgery Conference, an international symposium dedicated to advanced information technologies in radiology and surgery.
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