Alumni News
ODU To Play Delaware In 2012 Oyster Bowl
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Game scheduled for Oct. 27th In Foreman Field at S.B.Ballard Stadium
The Oyster Bowl, which returned to Foreman Field at SB Ballard Stadium this past fall after a 15-year absence, will remain part of the Old Dominion University home football schedule for the next five years, as announced today by Athletic Director Dr. Wood Selig.
"We are delighted that the Oyster Bowl will continue to be a fixture on the Old Dominion football schedule," says Selig. "The historical significance the game plays at Foreman Field and Norfolk's history compliments the traditions we are creating with our young football program, as well as providing an important charitable cause for our fans and University to support with the Shiners' hospitals."
Presented by the Chesapeake based Khedive Temple of Shriners International, the ODU vs. James Madison game played on Oct. 29, 2011 was designated the 62nd annual Oyster Bowl. The historic event had been played at ODU's stadium from 1946-1995 before moving to the Peninsula in 1999. The 63rd annual game will be held on Oct. 27, 2012, when the Monarchs take on CAA powerhouse Delaware and, like last year, an additional $1 added to the ticket cost of this game to support the Shriners' Hospitals for Children. The new contract secures a designated Oyster Bowl game on the Monarchs home schedule through the 2016 season.
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ODU-HU Team Selected Again for solar Decathlon Competition
Monday, January 30, 2012
The partnership between Old Dominion University and Hampton University for last year's Department of Energy Solar Decathlon was so successful that the two schools have teamed up again.
On Thursday, Jan. 26, Team Tidewater, composed of engineering students from ODU and architecture students from HU, was announced as a finalist for the 2013 Solar Decathlon, to be held in Orange County Great Park in Irvine, Calif.
Twenty colleges and universities from the United States, Canada and Europe will compete in the event, where teams attempt to design and build the best net zero energy home, to be judged in categories such as energy efficiency and marketability.
Team Tidewater finished in 14th place in the 2011 Solar Decathlon finals in Washington, D.C. The team's experimental home, known as Unit 6 Unplugged, will soon be relocated to a permanent site at 47th Street and Killam Avenue on the ODU campus. It will serve as the permanent home of ODU's Sustainable Development Institute, part of the Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology, and act as a testing lab and showroom for alternative energy technologies.
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ODU Economic Forecasting Team presents 2012 Regional and National Economic Forecasts
Monday, January 30, 2012
Old Dominion University's Economic Forecasting Team is forecasting economic growth in Hampton Roads to be slower than the national average in 2012.
The team, composed of College of Business and Public Administration faculty members Vinod Agarwal, professor of economics, Mohammad Najand, professor of finance, and Gary Wagner, professor of economics, presented its annual report Wednesday, Jan. 25, at the Norfolk Waterside Marriott.
The annual report, which is widely respected as an accurate harbinger of the year ahead for the region, forecasts regional economic growth of 1.97 percent, compared with national real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth of 2.4 percent.
For information about the Economic Forecasting Team and its projects, see http://bpa.odu.edu/forecasting/.
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Civil Right Icon Ruby Bridges to Deliver Keynot Lecture for Black History Month
Monday, January 30, 2012
Ruby Bridges, the social justice advocate and human rights icon, will give the keynote lecture for Old Dominion University's Black History Month 2012.
Bridges, who faced incredible racism and discrimination as the first African American child to attend an all-white elementary school in the South, will speak at 7 p.m. Monday, Feb. 6, in the North Cafeteria of Webb Center. Her lecture is free and open to the public.
In his famous 1964 painting "The Problem We All Live With," Norman Rockwell depicted the 6-year-old Bridges on Nov. 14, 1960, as she was escorted by deputy marshals on her way to William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans.
As an adult, inspired by her desire to help children achieve their hopes and dreams, Bridges established the Ruby Bridges Foundation. The foundation began by taking small steps to achieve a grand vision - to provide children with an equal opportunity to succeed. Appropriately, the work began at Frantz, where the foundation started an after-school program featuring multicultural arts classes. Later, a program called Ruby's Bridges was developed to promote cultural understanding through community service.
For more information about the lecture, contact ODU's Office of Intercultural Relations (OIR) at 683-4406 or oir@odu.edu.
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