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Arts & Science News
Ohio Northern University’s Percussion Ensemble and Steel Drum Band will begin a tour to historic Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., on March 30. The ONU band is under the direction of Dr. Sarah Waters, assistant professor of music, who will take her students to Elder and Seton High Schools in Cincinnati before heading to Nashville.The ONU Steel Drum Band and Percussion Ensemble will perform works for percussion and steel drums by composer Gary Powell Nash, a professor of music at Fisk. These...
Ohio Northern University student Zachary Dunn, a senior ACS chemistry and applied physics double major with an astronomy minor and an education concentration, has been selected as a Goldwater Scholar by the trustees of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. This marks the eighth consecutive year that Ohio Northern students have received this honor, the premier undergraduate award of its type in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.A...
The Ohio Northern University Department of Music will present Bob Becker in Presser Hall on Tuesday, April 3, at 8 p.m.A master of African percussion tradition, Becker is a disciple of Pandit Sharda Sahai, one of the most respected musicians of the Benares tabla style. Becker is considered to be one of the world’s prodigy performers on the xylophone and marimba. This talent led him to create the Bob Becker Concert Xylophone line of mallets.Through his work for Reich’s “Music for 18 Musicians,”...
Ohio Northern University’s Gamma Upsilon chapter of the Phi Beta Delta honor society will host an International Forum, featuring ONU students studying abroad, on Thursday, March 29, at 7 p.m. in the Dicke Forum. This student presentation will be moderated by Megan Piersol, a senior history major from Warren, Ohio.Participating students will discuss their study, travel and general learning experiences in Thailand, Israel and Japan. Daniella Chambers, a senior international studies...
Ohio Northern University’s Department of History, Politics and Justice will host “Lucasville Prison Riot: Causes and Consequences” in the Pettit College of Law’s Celebrezze Moot Court Room on Wednesday, March 28, at 11 a.m.Arthur Tate Jr. will be the featured speaker for this presentation. Tate served as warden of the maximum-security Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, in 1993, when the facility became of the scene of a historic prisoner rebellion. For a period of 11 days...
On March 3, 2012, ONU students gave three presentations at the 2012 Michigan Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, held at Siena Heights University.Tommy Steinberger, a junior in mathematics from Waynesfield, Ohio, advised by Dr. Mohammad Zaki, delivered the talk "On Bernoulli's Inequality."Ashley Ernst, a freshman in mathematics from McHenry, Ill., Morgan Hammer, a junior in chemistry from Findlay, Ohio, Mitchell Thayer, a senior in chemistry from Painesville, Ohio, and Matt Tremains, a junior...
The article "Quadratic residues and a special class of polynomials" by Dr. Mihai Caragiu and Courtney J. Brown was published in Far East Journal of Mathematical Education Volume 8, Issue 1, Pages 43 - 50 (February 2012). The abstract can be found at http://www.pphmj.com/abstract/6579.htm
Dr. Mihai Caragiu, professor of mathematics, Lauren Sutherland, BSEE’11, and Dr. Mohammad Zaki, assistant professor of mathematic, are authors of an paper “Multidimensional Greatest Prime Factor Sequences” published in JP Journal of Algebra, Number Theory and Applications 23 (2),187-195 (December 2011). In the paper they generalize several conjectures regarding the greatest prime factor sequences, proving a series of special cases. The abstract can be found here.
Mihai Caragiu, professor of mathematics, is author of a review of David Berlinski's book "One, Two, Three. Absolutely Elementary Mathematics" (Pantheon Books, 2011) published in the Journal of the ACMS, September 2011.Read more.
Sequences introduced in the paper “The Greatest Prime Factor and Recurrent Sequences” (Fibonacci Quarterly 48, no. 4, 358-362) by Mihai Caragiu, professor of mathematics, and Greg Back, BS ’10 are among the topics discussed in Rutgers University's Experimental Mathematics Seminar.
