Requirements for admission to the graduate program can be found in the School of Public Service section of the Graduate Catalog. The Commonwealth Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography focuses research efforts on major physical processes in the coastal ocean. These processes include continent scale currents, exchange with the open ocean, and effects of global change.
Techniques focus on computer modeling and analysis of existing data bases. The center provides advanced computer resources, technical support, and funding for faculty, research associates, and students. Visitors are encouraged to use the facility during either short- or long-term stays. The Center for Accelerator Science, established in partnership with Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Jefferson Lab , aims to meet the nation's need for scientists who will advance the sciences and technologies of particle accelerators and light sources for use in basic science, applied science and industry.
The Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology conducts research on the population dynamics of many marine species that are important to fisheries and conservation. The main areas of study include otolith chemistry, survey design, ageing methods, nursery habitats, and analysis techniques. To enhance the understanding of population dynamics, research focuses on utilization, evaluation, and innovation of quantitative methodologies with which fisheries scientists obtain vital rates and distribution data.
To provide fisheries managers with information that they use to manage fish stock, the center also conducts stock assessments. SCI Introduction to the College of Sciences. Presents the relationship between majors in the College of Sciences and the student's career goals for students planning to major in a science. Provides an orientation to the University emphasizing the learning skills needed for science majors. SCI T. The Evolution of Modern Science. This course outlines the history of science from Aristotle to the present.
Scientific progress has always been coupled with human progress and subject to the politics and culture of the times. Scientists, in most instances, have been in the mainstream of society. But, because of their curiosity and innovation, scientists have often clashed with the prevailing culture. Special Topics. Topics of study that are not offered regularly.
Prerequisites: permission of the instructor. Research Methods in Math and Sciences. Emphasizes the tools and techniques used to solve scientific problems. Topics include use and design of experiments, use of statistics to interpret experimental results,mathematical modeling of scientific phenomena, and oral and written presentation of results. Students will perform four independent inquiries, combining skills from mathematics and science to solve research problems.
Topics that are not offered regularly. College of Sciences. Catalog Navigation Search Catalog. On This Page. Undergraduate Catalog Toggle Undergraduate Catalog.
Each activity and lesson in the Oral Preschool is designed to provide rich language and listening practice, and the classroom is acoustically treated to provide the best possible listening environment. In addition, specialized equipment, technology, materials, and teaching methods are utilized that are specific to the education of children with hearing loss. Children applying for entrance to this program need to come through their local school divisions and Norfolk Public Schools.
Parents who are interested may come to observe, meet the staff and discuss the program in general, but are referred to their local school division to discuss placement for their child. School divisions seeking placement for children will contact Janet Knust regarding the process. Children for whom placement is being sought must be between years old and have an active IEP individual education plan.
Janet L. For further information please see the Norfolk Public Schools website: npsk Application for children to be placed in the ODU Oral Preschool shall be made by the child's local school division. Districts considering placement for students should contact Janet Knust at Norfolk Public Schools Tours of the building, classroom observations and meetings with staff can be arranged by appointment.
However, actual request for placement may only be made by the child's local school division to Norfolk Public Schools.
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