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Ohio Northern University will host a panel discussion on heroin, focusing on demystification and drug counseling, on Monday, Sept. 12, at 7 p.m. in room 151 of the Robertson-Evans Pharmacy Building. The ONU Department of History, Politics and Justice is sponsoring the event, which is free and open to the public.The panel consists of four professionals. Dr. Mike Schafer, director of counseling at the ONU Counseling Center, will mediate the discussion and discuss counseling techniques for...
The Ohio Northern University Astronomy Club invites ONU students, faculty and staff, as well as Ada and the surrounding communities, to an astronomy event at the ONU Observatory on Friday, Sept. 2, from 9-11 p.m. This event is free and open to the public.A short presentation on supernovas will take place around 9:45 p.m. A supernova is a rare event in which a star explodes. Light from the explosion rises over a week’s time and then slowly fades over a period of months.In addition to the...
New members are invited to join the Ohio Northern University Men’s and Women’s Choruses for the upcoming season. Both groups are open to individuals high school age or older. Previous choral experience is not required. ONU’s Women’s Chorus will rehearse Wednesdays from 8 to 9:50 p.m. in the Snyder Recital Hall of Presser Hall on the ONU campus. ONU’s Men’s Chorus will rehearse Wednesdays from 8 to 10 p.m. in the Rehearsal Hall of Presser Hall on the ONU campus. The two groups will...
Dr. James Schul, assistant professor of education, has received a $12,603 grant from the Library of Congress Teaching With Primary Sources program. Schul and Dr. Russ Crawford, assistant professor of history, will work with teachers in the Allen East School District as well as ONU teacher candidates in a project titled “Unleashing Alternative Representations of the Past into Middle and Secondary History Classrooms.” The program consists of five workshops designed to show participants how to use...
Dr. Phillip Zoladz, assistant professor of psychology, will be researching ““Effects of Stress on the Retrieval of Emotional and Non-Emotional Words,” with funding from a Psi Chi/Faculty Advisory grant.In his research proposal, Zoladz says research has shown that the temporal relationship between stress and learning mediates the effects of pre-learning stress on memory, but little work has addressed the temporal dynamics of pre-retrieval stress effects on memory. His study tests the...
“Placing Nature on the Borders of Religion, Philosophy and Ethics,” edited by Forrest Clingerman, assistant professor of philosophy and religion, and Mark H. Dixon, associate professor of philosophy, has been published by Ashgate Publishing.Available in hardback and as an ebook, the 238-page book (ISBN: 978-1-4094-2044-6) is a look at how the natural world has been “humanized.”Summary: The natural world has been "humanized": even areas thought to be wilderness bear the marks of human impact....
Dr. MJ Sunny Zank, professor of music, has published 17 analytical prefaces for Musikproduktion Hoeflich of Muenchen Germany in the past two years.This company produces study scores to musical works in many different genres which are used by scholars, researchers and performers. Each preface, which is published in both German and English, serves as a historical resource with background information on the individual work, including details of its performance history, timings and instrumentation...
Three seniors in manufacturing technology, Brian Rudary from Independence, Ohio, Nathan Evans from Westerville, Ohio, and Colin Bishop from Trotwood, Ohio, have been awarded the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Merit/Scholarship Award for 2011-2012.Funding for these awards included fundraising activities by the ONU chapter of the SME, and scholarships from the Lima chapter of SME, chaired by Roger Newhouse.
Dr. Darrin W. Snyder Belousek, lecturer in philosophy at ONU, is the winner of this year’s Templeton Enterprise Article Award, presented by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI), a national educational organization headquartered in Wilmington, Del.The Templeton awards are presented annually to scholars under 40 who have produced the very best books and articles in the field of humane economics and culture over the past two years. The Templeton Enterprise Awards are becoming some of the...
The Department of American Culture and Literature at Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey, recently accepted a shipment of books donated by students and faculty of Ohio Northern University. The book drive for the students of Hacettepe was organized and completed by Sigma Tau Delta, the English honorary, under the guidance of he STD chapter advisor Dr. Robert Scott, professor of English. The Cultural Affairs section of the U. S. Embassy in Ankara also helped with the shipment.Dr. Jonathan...
