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Watercourse of study
Starting this fall, Old Dominion University students will have a new interdisciplinary school dedicated to maritime work, logistics and supply chain management — an upgrade from an earlier program offered through the Strome College of Business. In September 2023, the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) appro[...]
Submarine sandwich
Hiring and retaining workers remains a challenge everywhere, but it’s particularly urgent in the submarine-building industry. The Navy is aiming to transform its submarine fleet, with the first nuclear-powered Columbia-class sub primed to arrive in 2028, along with production of more Virginia-class vessels. That’s bringing p[...]
Chips ahoy
Finally, the world is catching up with Virginia Tech’s semiconductor curriculum. Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering started a chip-scale integration major in 2016, but it wasn’t exactly high profile when Sheena Deivasigamani arrived at Virginia Tech as a first-year engineering student in 2019. Chip-scale integration wa[...]
Little fish, big pond
Sometimes all it takes is seeing a child watch a crab crawl across a water table for the first time, Nate Sandel has learned. The director of education and community engagement at Nauticus, Norfolk’s science and maritime museum, Sandel saw the look of awe in a fourth-grade boy’s face as he watched crabs walk right […]
U.Va. opens School of Data Science building
Billed as a “school without walls,” the University of Virginia’s School of Data Science officially inaugurated its first dedicated academic building Friday, five years after the school started. “I was a little surprised and somewhat disappointed, if I’m being honest, when I came here yesterday for a[...]
Hollins president to chair national board
Hollins University President Mary Dana Hinton has been elected chair of the board of directors for the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU), the university announced April 17. Hinton begins her term on July 1 and leads a board of four officers and 14 board members. NAICU focuses on representing p[...]
Richmond-based attorneys win U.S. Supreme Court case
After nine years and through three U.S. presidents, two Richmond-based attorneys and their client, an FBI agent who also lives in Richmond, received great news Tuesday: They had won their U.S. Supreme Court case against the federal government. Rudisill v. McDonough was decided 7-2 in favor of plaintiff Jim Rudisill, a retired Ar[...]
SCHEV board member hired as new director
Less than a year after joining the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia’s board, A. Scott Fleming will be SCHEV’s next director, the state agency announced Thursday. Fleming, whom Gov. Glenn Youngkin appointed to the SCHEV board in July 2023, stepped down from the body this week after accepting the job as d[...]
ODU maritime training alliance designated federal Center of Excellence
The Hampton Roads Maritime Industries Education Alliance (HRMIEA) has been designated a 2024 Center of Excellence for Domestic Maritime Workforce Training and Education by the U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD), Old Dominion University announced Thursday. HRMIEA received the designation, good for five years, on Feb. 16, according to Elspeth McMahon, ODU’s assistant vice president for maritime […][...]
W&M receives $30M anonymous donation
An anonymous William & Mary alumna has donated $30 million to renovate and rename a building in honor of former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, who is currently the university’s chancellor. Robert M. Gates Hall will house three academic centers — the Global Research Institute, the Institute for Integrative[...]
Virginia Tech announces new CFO
Virginia Tech has hired Simon Allen as its chief financial officer and vice president for finance, the university announced Monday. Allen is currently vice president for finance and CFO of the Ithaca campus of Cornell University. In his new role, which he’ll start May 6, Allen will report to Virginia Tech Executive Vice Pr[...]
Alger leaving JMU to head American University
American University announced Monday that James Madison University President Jonathan Alger will be its next president, starting July 1. Alger joined the Harrisonburg public university in 2012. Alger will be the 16th president of AU, a private university in Washington, D.C., replacing President Sylvia Burwell. During his tenure,[...]
