About Old Dominion University

"Innovation Research Park @ ODU demonstrates the priority the university places on leveraging research and academic strengths to support economic development, while providing additional space for our flourishing research enterprise centers. It offers an avenue for the university's research platforms to develop in new directions, such as our world-renowned modeling and simulation program addressing homeland security, transportation logistics and medical imaging."

-President Roseann Runte

Highlights

• One of only 101 public universities with a Carnegie/Doctoral Research-Extensive Distinction
• Sixteen Research and Enterprise Centers in engineering, science, and business
• Award-winning faculty and students
• Top-ranked programs and capabilities in Modeling and Simulation, Bioelectrics, Oceanography, Particle Physics, and Aerospace Engineering
• Ongoing defense and homeland security research helping a broad cross-section of companies support the twelve military bases in the region
• A new Physical Sciences building that houses ODU's Core Instrumentation Facility including, one of the few commercially available 12-Tesla  Magnetic Resonance Spectrometers in the southeastern United States
• ODU operates programs at major government research facilities including NASA Langley (wind tunnels) Wallops Island (commercial space flight center) and Jefferson Labs (continuous beam particle accelerator)