Arts & Science News

Dr. Robeson Named Interim Dean of Arts & Sciences

Lisa G. Robeson, Ph.D., associate professor of English, has been named as interim dean of Ohio Northern University's Getty College of Arts & Sciences, effective July 7. The college has 15 departments offering over 50 majors and concentrations and a faculty of 135. Robeson takes on the leadership of the College of Arts & Sciences while a national search is underway for a successor to Dr. Robert A. Manzer, who has accepted a position of vice president for academic affairs at St....

Religion Professor is Project Director for $20,000 Grant

Dr. Forrest J. Clingerman, assistant professor of religion at Ohio Northern University, is the project director for a $20,000 grant from the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Religion and Theology. The grant supports "Pedagogies for Civic Engagement: Developing Strategies Within and Beyond the Religious Studies Classroom." It also funds two meetings of scholars of religious and theological studies to explore a range of strategies for civic engagement. The meetings will be...

Chemistry Professor Receives $5,000 Grant

Dr. Jake Zimmerman, assistant professor of chemistry at Ohio Northern University, has been awarded $5,000 from Teledyne Isco of Lincoln, Neb. The chemistry department will use part of the grant to purchase a CombiFlash Companion, an instrument used during teaching and research to purify organic compounds. The grant also will allow the department to use in other ways the funds it had originally set aside for the instrument's purchase. "We are very pleased to receive this grant as it...

Keiser is President-elect of Ohio Academy of Science

Terry D. Keiser, professor of biological sciences and chair of the department of biological and allied health sciences at Ohio Northern University, has been named the 2008-2009 president-elect of the Ohio Academy of Science. Keiser is a fellow of the academy and has been active in the organization for more than 40 years. He was a member of the Junior Academy Council for 30 years and served as vice president of the natural resources section. He also has been published in the academy's...

Exhibit Highlights First-year Art Students’ Accomplishments

The Ohio Northern University department of art and design will host the annual Foundations Honors Exhibit on Monday, May 12 through Friday, Aug. 29 in the lobby of the Elzay Gallery of Art. The juried exhibition is open to all ONU students enrolled in the foundations courses during the 2007-08 academic year. Work in any medium is accepted, including drawings, two-and three-dimensional work, color theory, and ceramics. Faculty members of the foundations program assist students in making their...

Ohio Supreme Court Justice Stratton to Speak at Undergraduate Commencement

Ohio Northern University will celebrate its 2008 Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony on Sunday, May 18, 2008 at 2 p.m. in the Sports Center. About 600 students will be awarded degrees. Ohio Supreme Court Justice Evelyn L. Stratton will be addressing the graduating students as the guest speaker. Justice Stratton has served on the Ohio Supreme Court since 1996. Justice Stratton's legal career began in the courtrooms of central Ohio as a trial lawyer. In 1989, as the first woman judge to...

ONU PRSSA Student Named Outstanding Graduate

Ohio Northern University senior, Megan May a communications arts major from Rawson, Ohio, has won the central Ohio Public Relations Society of America's "Outstanding Graduate PRISM Award." This marks the second consecutive year an ONU student has been awarded this distinction. Last year, Kevin Saghy '07, garnered the honor. May was selected from more than 1,500 students studying public relations in central Ohio for her academic, leadership and commitment to the...

High School Students Invited to Attend Japanese Summer Camp at ONU

Ohio Northern University invites high school students to attend the Kasukabe-U.S. Summer Camp to be held July 24 through Aug. 12 at the University. Twenty American high school students will have the opportunity to learn Japanese and experience Japanese culture with 20 Japanese high school students from the Saitama Prefecture in Japan. The camp is dedicated to fostering scholarship, enhancing language skills and promoting cross-cultural understanding Students who complete the program will...

Senior Art Students to Exhibit Portfolios

Ohio Northern University art students will exhibit their portfolios in the Elzay Gallery of Art beginning Saturday, May 3, with a public reception from 2 to 4 p.m. The works will be on display until Friday, May 16. The display is the culmination of a year of work for six senior bachelor of arts (BA) and bachelor of fine arts (BFA) candidates. As part of the required senior capstone experience, the candidates produced a thematically focused body of work. Students honed and refined their ideas,...

President’s Leadership Dessert Honors ONU Students

Eight Ohio Northern University students, a male and female from each class, were honored with awards at the annual President's Leadership Dessert, held April 30. Special guest speaker for the event was Ohio State University Head Football Coach Jim Tressel. Receiving the DeBow Freed Awards for Outstanding Leadership as freshmen were Bethany Schreck, an art major from Bethel Park, Pa., and Ryan Lowry, a business administration major from Bluffton, Ohio. Sophomore winners were Natalyn...