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Friday | Hampton Roads Daily Press

Arts festival presents three concerts in the coming week

The Virginia Arts Festival will offer three concerts in the coming week highlighting the works of new composers and the beginning of the OpSail celebration.

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Related Topix: Entertainment, MasterWorks, Television, Norfolk, VA, Symphony, Arts

Thu May 31, 2012

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Gregory Warmack, 64: Called 'Mr. Imagination' for his creativity in art

Gregory Warmack, known simply as Mr. Imagination on the international art scene, moved to Atlanta in 2009 to regain something he'd lost.

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Related Topix: Atlanta, GA, Italy, World News, Inventions, Science / Technology

Wed May 30, 2012

Examiner.com

ODU student hits high seas to explore underwater canyons

On Tuesday, May 29, an Old Dominion University student hit the high seas to map the deep sea canyons that separate the mid-Atlantic's continental shelf from the ocean abyss.

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Related Topix: Science, Oceanography

Tue May 29, 2012

The Virginian-Pilot

WTKR news reels provide a lens on local history

Jerry Harrell, a former broadcaster for WAVY and now Old Dominion University's video production manager, looks over a couple of the hundreds of reels that make up the WTKR film collection at ODU on Friday, May 25, 2012.

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Related Topix: Virginia, African-American, Libraries

C-Ville Weekly

Graduates head to colleges thanks to the I Have A Dream Foundation

If you saw Joey Wright on the Downtown Mall, you probably wouldn't give him a second look.

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Related Topix: Charlottesville, VA

Sun May 27, 2012

Herald Star Online

Edison grads urged to persevere

The superintendent of the Edison Local school district urged graduates from his high school to never give up in life.

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Related Topix: Edison, OH, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, OH, J.K. Rowling, Authors, Books, West Virginia University

Fri May 25, 2012

Examiner.com

Advocacy group sues Virginia city over selective sign code enforcement

In a double blow against free speech and property rights, the city of Norfolk, Va., is not only planning to take a thriving business using its power of eminent domain , but it also wants to censor a powerful and highly visible sign protesting the city's action.

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Related Topix: Norfolk, VA

Wed May 23, 2012

Customer Interaction Solutions

BRIEF: ODU researchers receive Department of Defense grant

NORFOLK, May 23, 2012 -- Researchers from Old Dominion University have received a two-year, $2 million grant from the Department of Defense.

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Related Topix: Department of Defense, US News

Tue May 22, 2012

Customer Interaction Solutions

Ex-lawmaker Hamilton appeals corruption conviction

May 23, 2012 -- APPLYING AN ANCIENT LEGAL PRINCIPLE -- confidentiality of communications between a husband and wife -- can get dicey in the digital age.

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Related Topix: Privacy, US News, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

Mon May 21, 2012

CisionWire

Gale's Nineteenth Century Collections Online Arrives at Academic Institutions Worldwide

Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, today announced the availability of Nineteenth Century Collections Online, a groundbreaking multi-year global digitization and publishing program.

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Related Topix: Libraries, University of Miami

Sat May 19, 2012

The Virginian-Pilot

ODU angler climbs fast track to success

While there aren't any records kept for it, it's very likely that Kitt Moger currently is the fastest rising star in Virginia's freshwater fishing scene.

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Related Topix: Virginia, Virginia Government

Fri May 18, 2012

Examiner.com

Best way to reduce cost of 4-year degree

With the economic downtown, more parents than ever are concerned about how they will afford to send their child to college.

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Related Topix: Suffolk, VA, Education Etc.

Loudoun Times

Teacher of the year

Backstory Brambleton Community of Faith Hangin in the Nosebleeds Journal Entry Loudoun Essence Made in Loudoun Odd Angles River Creek & Lansdowne South Riding Sterling, Cascades & CountrySide Shannon Allen, a keyboarding teacher at Blue Ridge Middle School, has been named the Shenandoah Teacher of the Year for Loudoun County.

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Related Topix: Loudoun County, VA, University of Tulsa, University of Phoenix

Thu May 17, 2012

The Virginian-Pilot

Region's leaders gather to plan future, play with Legos

More than 200 community and business leaders, including from left, Tom Duckett with the Hampton Roads Realtors Assoc., Claire Jones with the city of Suffolk, Randy Lyall with Lyall Design Architects and Ben White with the city of Chesapeake, gather to talk about issues such as land use and transportation during the Reality Check program at ODU on ... (more)

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Hampton Roads Daily Press

Economists predict slow, steady growth for region

Hampton Roads ' economy should grow this year but at a slower pace than that of the country, Old Dominion University economists predicted Thursday in a quarterly forecast.

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Related Topix: Bob McDonnell, US Governors

Tue May 15, 2012

The Volokh Conspiracy

Eminent Domain Abuse in Virginia

Richmond Times-Dispatch columnist A. Barton Hinkle recently published this piece on a case of eminent domain abuse in Virginia: As a general rule, progressives do not get worked up about property rights the way conservatives do.

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Related Topix: Virginia Government, Virginia

Mon May 14, 2012

The Virginian-Pilot

ODU board meets, makes no decision on C-USA

The athletic department has been researching the financial impact the move would have, but the final decision will fall to president John Broderick and the Board of Visitors.

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Fri May 11, 2012

Martinsville Bulletin

Educator to receive Ph.D. at PHCC

Megan Healy, an assistant professor of biological sciences at Patrick Henry Community College, is shown with a human skeleton model Thursday at PHCC.

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Related Topix: Norfolk, VA, Virginia Commonwealth University

Thu May 10, 2012

Hanover Herald-Progress

Patriot Players slick in - Grease'

"There are some different scenes and songs [in the live theatre version than the movie version]," senior Lottie Price said.

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NBC12

Desegregation project comes to Richmond

A project to gather the stories of Virginians who lived through desegregation of the state's public schools is coming to Richmond.

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Related Topix: Virginia, Virginia Government

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