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Kevin Leslie. Photo courtesy Old Dominion University
Jan 13, 2023

ODU hires associate VP for innovation, commercialization

Kevin Leslie will be Old Dominion University‘s first associate vice president for innovation and commercialization, the Norfolk-based university announced Friday. Leslie will improve ODU‘s technology transfer operation to better identify, develop and market faculty, staff and student intellectual property and startups. He also will lead federal and other grant applications related to i[...]

One of the first graduates of Virginia Tech’s biomedical engineering program, Leah Thomas invented a garment to alleviate pain in lymphedema patients. Photo by Don Petersen
Jul 28, 2022

‘Brainy’ couture: Biomed grad designs high-tech fashion

Leah Thomas became a fashion designer to cap off her undergraduate degree in Virginia Tech’s biomedical engineering program. A member of the university’s first cohort of 40 undergraduate biomedical engineering students who graduated in spring 2022, Thomas designed a dress and headpiece fitted with biosensors for a biotech couture fashion show. She collaborated with another […]

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