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Arts & Science News
The ONU Astronomy Club, with Dr. Jason Pinkney as faculty advisor, held a viewing of the Orionid Meteor shower in October. A meteor, also called "shooting star" or "falling star," is a streak of light in the atmosphere caused when space debris pierces the Earth's atmosphere at speeds in excess of 30 miles per second. Several meteors were spotted by the more than 20 people who attended.
ONU physics students and faculty presented posters at the 2008 Fall Meeting of the Ohio Section of American Physical Society (OSAPS) at Wright State University on Oct. 10 and 11, 2008.Andrew Mayger, a senior mathematics major from Saint Clairsville, Ohio, presented research on the National Science Foundation-funded research he did this summer at Lehigh University involving defects in semiconductors. Senior Craig Koontz, from Ottawa, Ohio, gave a presentation on substructures in clusters of...
Nine Ohio Northern University students participated in a recent exercise designed to simulate an election GIS (Geographic Information System). During the recent presidential election, most news agencies relied on similar systems that tabulate and automatically display election results. ONU's simulation emphasized the creation and implementation of the GIS, as well as its implications to the media, political parties and analysts. Attending were Dr. Ellen Wilson, chair of the department of...
Several technological studies students represented ONU at the North American DELMIA Customer Conference in Detroit on Oct. 8, 2008. Doug Vorhees, a senior from Celina, Ohio; Jacob Ryan, a senior from Hillsboro, Ohio; Scott Nemeth, a senior from Westlake, Ohio; Rob Hradek, a senior from Wooster, Ohio; and professor Paul Nutter presented class curriculum and projects with industrial companies to educators from around the country, and also provided a display of the program at ONU for the user...
The Football in American Culture (HIST 462) class, taught by Dr. Russ Crawford, assistant professor of history, recently traveled to the Professional Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. There, students viewed exhibits that traced the history of professional football from the National Football League's origin in a car dealership showroom in Canton, to the now global sport that includes professional leagues in Europe, Asia, and Central and South America. In addition to the displays...
Ohio Northern University will host a medicinal chemistry seminar Dec. 3 at 6 p.m. in the Meyer Hall of Science's annex room 105.
Tara Rheault, Ph.D., an oncology medical chemistry researcher with GlaxoSmithKline at Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, will be the speaker. Her topic is "Potent and Selective Inhibitors of Polo-Like Kinase (PLK1): Novel Anti-mitotic Agents for the Treatment of Cancer."
Lack of proper cell cycle control is a hallmark of cancer cells....
John R. and Karen Zika, of Statesville, N.C., and Susan (Zika) Warmsby, of Atlanta, Ga., have donated a 19th-century violin to Ohio Northern University. The Zika family presented the instrument to Tom Hunt, chairman of the ONU music department, on Nov. 19.
The violin has been in the Zika family since 1933. Charles Zika, who owned the violin, is the father of John, Susan and longtime ONU professor Rosemary (Zika) Williams, who passed away in 2007.
An accomplished violinist, Charles began...
Dr. Lonnie G. Thompson, one of the world's foremost authorities on paleoclimatology and glaciology, will give a lecture at Ohio Northern University titled "Global Climate Change: A Paleoclimate Perspective from the World's Highest Mountains." Part of the annual Phi Beta Delta International Forum, the lecture will take place on Thursday, Dec. 4, from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Dicke Hall Forum.
Thompson and his research team developed lightweight, solar-powered drilling equipment that...
November, 2008 — The Annual Student Juried Exhibit opened this month at the Elzay Gallery of Art on the beautiful campus of Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio. The show runs through Dec. 17.
A wide range of medium, style and subject matter is represented. This year's show was very competitive, says Associate Professor of Art and Gallery Director Melissa Eddings. More than 45 student artists and designers submitted over 120 entries to the jurors, Anne Beekman and Valerie Excobedo, both...
The Ohio Northern University departments of theatre and music will present the 14th annual ONU Holiday Spectacular at the Freed Center for the Performing Arts. Performances are Friday, Dec. 5, at 8 p.m.; Saturday, Dec. 6, at 2 and 8 p.m.; and Sunday, Dec. 7, at 2 p.m. The show also will be presented at the Veterans Memorial Civic and Convention Center in Lima on Friday, Dec. 12, at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, Dec. 13, at 2 and 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, Dec. 14, at 2 p.m.
Start off the holiday season...
