NORFOLK, Va. (AP) 鈥� Virginia鈥檚 Old Dominion University has received a prestigious designation for being a high-level research institution.
The school in Norfolk announced that it鈥檚 now considered to be a 鈥淩esearch 1鈥� institution by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. ODU is nationally known for research involving sea-level rise and adapting to climate change.
Its faculty and staff also focus on areas such as port logistics and maritime engineering.
The school is also a key academic partner for NASA鈥檚 Langley Research Center and the Department of Defense. ODU is a state school of nearly 25,000 students.
It said the number of scientific publications from ODU faculty has doubled in the past decade.
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