Across the Campus – A Photo Essay

Student volunteers plant milkweed Thursday in a garden plot outside the Kaplan Orchid Conservatory. It's part of an initiative by the biological sciences department, Monarchs for Monarchs, to make the campus and surrounding area friendlier turf for migrating monarch butterflies. Photo by Steve Daniel

A delegation of administrators and faculty from Cuba visited Old Dominion last week. Pictured above is the head of the delegation, Jose Febles Gonzalez, director of international relations at Universidad de La Habana, with Provost Carol Simpson following a gift exchange in the Koch Hall board room. Simpson signed a general Memorandum of Understanding between the two schools. Photo by Steve Daniel

Stephanie Whitaker, a senior park and recreation management major from Norfolk, adjusts a helmet on a youngster in preparation for climbing the rock wall at the Student Recreation Center on Wednesday. The human movement sciences department sponsored the event for special-needs students from Norfolk Public Schools. The students, diagnosed with multiple disabilities, are from Crossroads School. They have been participating in a 10-week motor clinic at ODU this spring, which helps them and also gives practical experiences to future physical education teachers. Photo by Chuck Thomas

Leo Notto, of the ODU chapter of the Botanical Society of America, gave out free vegetable plants to students Thursday on Kaufman Mall as a way to encourage gardening. He said that student chapter members recently planted a vegetable garden near the Kaplan Orchid Conservatory. Notto is a sophomore biology major from Charlottesville, Va. Photo by Steve Daniel

Students from Chesapeake’s Deep Creek High School Science and Medicine Academy toured a number of labs at the Frank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics Thursday as part of a visit arranged by Barbara Hargrave, associate professor of medical diagnostic and translational sciences. Pictured here, Erica Cottrell, a science teacher at the Deep Creek academy, looks through a microscope while ODU postdoc Shawna Shirley, above right, and a Deep Creek student look on. Photo by Chuck Thomas

Jasmine McIver (left), a sophomore sociology major from Shreveport, La., and Jaclyn Sharpe, a junior dental hygiene major from Midland, Mich., take advantage of the warm weather Wednesday afternoon to study for their Spanish class. Photo by Steve Daniel

Sean Milcetich, a junior park, recreation and tourism studies major from Maryland, enjoys the spring weather Thursday afternoon outside Whitehurst Hall. Photo by David Hollingsworth

ODU graduate Hamchetou Maiga-Ba '02 (center), a former member of the Lady Monarchs basketball team and former WNBA player, visited her alma mater last week along with her children and Kadiatou Konaté (left), who is producing a documentary that will feature Maiga-Ba and be shown in their native country of Mali. During the campus visit, Konaté interviewed some members of the ODU community, including Cee Cee Tucker (right), assistant to the president for community relations. Photo by Steve Daniel

These members of the ODU community, along with a handful of campus visitors, gathered briefly on Kaufman Mall April 22 to take part in NASA's worldwide #GlobalSelfie event for Earth Day. To commemorate the day, NASA plans to create an image of Earth from the ground up while also fostering a collection of portraits of the people of Earth. Now that the selfie pictures from all over have streamed around the world, the individual pictures tagged #GlobalSelfie will be used to create a mosaic image of Earth – a new 'Blue Marble' built bit by bit with the photos. For more information visit the NASA globalselfie link: http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/globalselfie/#.U1ezAuZdVqI. Photo by Steve Daniel

Thursday's sunshine and pleasant temperatures were conducive to study outdoors, as well as other pursuits. This student chose a grassy area outside the Mills Godwin Jr. Life Sciences Building for a snooze. Photo by Steve Daniel

Daniela Cigularova, associate director of enrollment and student success at ODU Virginia Beach, and Big Blue draw raffle tickets at the higher education center’s Exam Jam on Wednesday. Photo by David Hollingsworth

Kimeka Robinson, a junior education major, shows off the T-shirt she won at the ODU Virginia Beach Exam Jam on Wednesday. Photo by David Hollingsworth

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