Arts & Science News

Two alumni contribute more than $4 million to ONU

Ohio Northern University has received more than $4 million from alumni estate contributions.The estate of Dr. Anthony and Doris Martin provides more than $2.5 million for the benefit of the existing Dr. Anthony J. and Doris E. Martin Pre-Medical Student Scholarship Fund. The University additionally received $1.5 million from the estate of Dwight L. Carhart for the benefit of the Pettit College of Law and to establish the Fred L. Carhart Memorial Program in Legal Ethics.Dr. Martin, BA '31,...

Ohio Northern to Host Sakae Institute

For the fourth year, Ohio Northern University will host the Sakae Institute of Study Abroad, a preparation program for Japanese students who will begin studies at U.S. colleges and universities in the fall. Eighteen undergraduates, three of whom will attend ONU in the fall, along with nine graduate students, will take part in this summer’s institute which runs July 12 through August 14. Taught by ONU faculty, the students will practice reading, writing, listening and speaking in English, take...

Rudolph Foods awards ONU grant for research project

Ohio Northern University, has been awarded a $50,622 grant from Rudolph Foods of Lima, Ohio to fund a summer research project entitled, "Vision Driven Robotic Processing for the Pork Skin Processing Industry." Under the direction of Adam Stienecker, assistant professor of technology, the research team is seeking to develop new algorithms that will improve processing of the product to provide more efficient packaging and distribution of pork rinds produced by Rudolph Foods,...

International Student to Speak at ONU's Honors Day

Oleksandr "Sasha" Kondratyuk, an LL.M. student from Kyiv, Ukraine, will be the featured speaker at Ohio Northern University's Honors Day celebration on Saturday, May 5. His topic for the 11 a.m. convocation in the university's gymnasium, will be "Living in the Globalized, Shrinking World: Challenges and Opportunities." Kondratyuk is one of 11 young lawyers in the new LL.M. program at ONU's Pettit College of Law. The goal of this new program is to provide these...

ONU Honor Students Hold Mock Supreme Court Hearing

An Ohio Northern University Honors Seminar on appellate advocacy will culminate with students presenting oral arguments before a "mock" U.S. Supreme Court from 6 to 9 p.m., on Monday, May 1 in Room 129 of the ONU College of Law. Students researched and wrote an appellate brief based on a case that was argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in the 2005 term. The case, Clark v. Arizona, involves the shooting death of an on-duty police officer. Mr. Clark (the defendant) entered a plea of not guilty...

ONU Celebrates 20 Years of Gospel Music

Ohio Northern University's Gospel Ensemble will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a reunion weekend and anniversary concert at 7 p.m., Saturday, April 21 in the ONU Chapel. Ensemble alumni will meet Friday, April 20 to prepare for the concert and celebrate the organizations legacy of music. Adriane Thompson-Bradshaw, dean of students, and director of the ensemble since its inception, says the ensemble began in 1987 by African-American students who wanted to share their heritage of...

Ohio Northern Students to Study in South Korea

Ohio Northern University has awarded four fellowships for the Hanyang University Summer program in Seoul South Korea. Recipients of the awards are Susan Warrington, a fourth-year pharmacy student from Hudson, Ohio; Jessica Riegle, a junior in education and history from Arlington, Ohio; Jarod Patton, a senior in engineering, from Waynesville, Ohio; and Stephanie Wells, a sophomore in political science/Communications from Beavercreek, Ohio. The students will spend four weeks on the Hanyang...

ONU Technological Studies teams win 2007 Robot of the Year, two gold and one silver award in national competition

Ohio Northern University Technological Studies teams captured two gold awards, one silver award and the "2007 Robot of the year award" at the National Robotics Challenge held at The Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Marion on March 9-10. ONU garnered the 2007 Robot of the Year," the highest award at the competition after designing, building and programming a manufactured work cell consisting of a KUKA industrial robot, a plastic injection molder and several applied control systems...

"Frontiers of Estate Planning" will be discussed at ONU Law Review Symposium

"Frontiers of Estate Planning: Changing Laws for Changing Times" will be the subject of Ohio Northern University's 30th Annual Law Review Symposium in the Pettit College of Law beginning at 8 a.m. on Friday, March 23. ONU visiting professor of law John H. Martin will be serving as symposium moderator. Seven law experts will be discussing the various topics in the field of trusts and estates. from their different viewpoints. Martin, this year's symposium moderator, is a...

ONU Juried Student Art exhibition on display

The Ohio Northern University juried student art exhibition will be on display in the Elzay Gallery of Art from March 12 -30. Traditionally the most popular art gallery event of the academic year, the exhibition will feature original work from ONU undergraduate students in a variety of media such as: ceramics, oils and watercolors, photographs, graphic design, drawings, sculpture, mixed media and printmaking. The exhibition is a competition open to any undergraduate student enrolled at ONU....