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Arts & Science News
At the 2012 CMS National Conference, Nov. 15-18 in San Diego, Calif., Dr. MJ Sunny Zank presented a paper titled “Genji and Gagaku: Traditional Japanese Music in Contemporary Animation.”In addition, two of her musical reviews have been published by the American String Teach Journal: Review of WALTZ from Serenade for Strings by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Published by the American String Teacher Journal November 2012 Volume 62, Number 4; and Review of “I Will Always Love You” for string...
Thomas Steinberger, a junior from Waynesfield, Ohio, advised by Dr. Mohammad Zaki, was recognized twice in ‘The College Mathematics Journal’, November 2012 issue, for the correct solutions he submitted to problems 961 and 965. Steinberger is a mathematics major and a member of the ONU-SOLVE Problem Group.
On Oct. 31, 2012, Dr. Mihai Caragiu, professor of mathematics, presented the invited talk "Beyond High School Science Fairs: The Senior Capstone Project" at the University of Findlay's Mathematics Colloquium.The talk was an itinerary through a number of themes investigated in Caragiu's undergraduate research projects with an emphasis on quadratic residues and their combinatorial applications, greater prime factor sequences and the relevant open problems in the area, etc. An interesting issue...
On Sept. 28, 2012, Dr. Mihai Caragiu, professor of mathematics, presented the talk "Some explicit examples of paradoxical tournaments" at the fall conference devoted to Statistics in Sports held at Miami University. The speaker presented a number of arithmetical ways of explicitly constructing examples of k-paradoxical tournaments (the late prolific mathematician Paul Erdős worked on such tournaments, producing one of the nicest probabilistic proofs ever), announcing a new mathematical result...
An article titled "On a Class of Solvable Recurrences with Primes", co-authored by Dr. Mihai Caragiu, ONU professor of mathematics, Dr. Alexandru Zaharescu, professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Dr. Mohammad Zaki, ONU assistant professor of mathematics, appeared in ‘JP Journal of Algebra, Number Theory and Applications’, Volume 26, Issue 2, Pages 197 – 208 (September 2012). In the paper the authors investigate a new class of “greatest prime factor...
Kofi Nsia-Pepra, assistant professor of political science, presented a paper, “Legal Analysis of ECOMOG’s Legitimacy to Forcefully Intervene in Ivory Coast to Restore Democracy,” Nov. 2 at the International Studies Association Midwest Conference, held in St. Louis, Mo.Nsia-Pepra explains, the Economic Community of West African States’ (ECOWAS) threat to forcefully intervene to restore democracy in Ivory Coast if incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo persistently refused to cede power to...
Mathematics and mathematical statistics majors, Emily Barbee, a senior from Kingwood, Texas; Hannah DePriest, a senior from Findlay, Ohio; Johnathan Neville, a sophomore from Sidney, Ohio; James Rader, a sophomore from Findlay, Ohio, and Joanna Snyder, a senior from Fort Recovery, Ohio, presentedpapers at the Pi Mu Epsilon Student Section of the recent 40th Miami University Mathematics and Statistics Conference. Barbee’s talk, “Are the Statistics Really Statistics?” dealt with...
Ohio Northern University’s Freed Center for the Performing Arts presents the 18th annual Holiday Spectacular from Thursday, Nov. 15, through Saturday, Nov. 17, at 7:30 p.m. There will be a matinee performance on Saturday, Nov. 17, at 2 p.m.In addition, there will be performances at the Civic and Convention Center in Lima, Ohio, on Friday, Nov. 30, at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 1, at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 2, at 2 p.m.View Show Photo GalleryThe show is underwritten in part by the...
Dr. Philip Zoladz, assistant professor of psychology, and 10 past and present research assistants, attended the 2012 annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, held Oct. 13-17 in New Orleans, La., to present posters based on research conducted at ONU.Participants included Ashlee Warnecke, BA ’11, from Kalida, Ohio; Sarah Woelke, BA’12 from Bowling Green, Ohio; Hanna Burke, BA’11, from Findlay, Ohio; Rachael Frigo, BA’11 from Mason, Ohio; Julia Pisansky, a senior in psychology from...
