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Arts & Science News
Ashley Mauder, an Ohio Northern University junior communication arts major from Graytown, Ohio, was elected to the Public Relations Student Society of America’s (PRSSA) National Committee as FORUM editor-in-chief at their national assembly held March 13-16.FORUM is the official newspaper of PRSSA and is published three times a year. As editor-in-chief, Mauder will coordinate the production of FORUM and the PRSSA blog.“I am very proud and excited that Ashley was nominated to be a representative...
Dr. Khristo Boyadzhiev, professor of mathematics, has recently published the article, “Series Transformation Formulas of Euler Type, Hadamard Product of Functions, and Harmonic Number Identities,” in volume 42 of the Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics.In the article Boyadzhiev uses a theorem originally proven by the French mathematican Jacques Hadamard concerning the multiplication of series to establish several Euler-type series transformation formulas. As...
At the recent Joint National Mathematics Meetings in Boston, Dr. Bill Fuller, associate professor of mathematics, presented a paper on “Modeling thermal propagation along vein walls in endovenous laser treatment.” Fuller presented work he has done in collaboration with Maria Raiti, mathematics and statistics department and a local surgeon, Ronald Bush, M.D. Fuller also acted as chair of one of the AMS sessions on mathematical biology and related fields.
At the recent Joint National Mathematics Meetings in Boston, senior mathematics majors Lauren Cassell from Vandalia, Ohio, and Joseph Mileski from Tiffin, Ohio, presented posters as part of the undergraduate poster session sponsored by the Mathematical Association of America. Cassell’s presentation was titled “Guarding a Koch Fractal Art Gallery,” while Mileski’s presentation was titled “Paths of Melody Lines on Circles.” Cassell’s poster dealt with calculating the density...
Polaris, ONU's creative writing magazine, is featured in Paper Darts’ coverage of the Association of Writers and Writing Program's (AWP's) national conference.Paper Darts, an independent literary publisher, said, “Polaris, an undergraduate art and lit journal from Ohio Northern University, drew us in with their fossil and fish head covers and kept us due in small part to a bit of Ivory Tower nostalgia. Among their merch were sweet handmade chapbooks with microfiction tucked in their...
David R. Smith, Ohio Northern University associate professor of geography, will discuss “War and Counter-Terrorism in the Caucasus” during the Phi Beta Delta International Forum in the Dicke Room 230 on Thursday, March 15, at 7 p.m.Smith spent three weeks in Vladikavkaz, the capital of Russia’s North Ossetia/Alan Republic along the border with Georgia, and freely traveled around the province and interviewed Russians, Georgians, Ossetians and Ingush on problems they face in the region. Smith...
Ohio Northern University’s student-run public relations firm, True North PR, garnered first place in a national competition sponsored by Theatrics’ Mass Participation TV. The competition’s goal was to develop a grassroots campaign that used traditional and non-traditional methods to produce an increase in auditions for “Beckinfield,” a new online web series.Under the supervision of Dr. Kathie Fleck, visiting instructor in public relations, the firm was awarded $2,000 after finishing in the top...
Ohio Northern University will host a panel discussion about heroin, focusing on drug courts and prison drug counseling, in the forum of James F. Dicke Hall on Monday, Feb. 13, at 7 p.m.This panel will feature Judge James S. Rapp of the Hardin County Court of Common Please, Probate and Juvenile Divisions, and Wade Melton, director of programs with the Hardin County Juvenile Court and the director of Hardin Community School. Melton currently monitors the juvenile drug court program and the...
Kevin Cieplowski, BA ’09, from Garfield Heights, Ohio, Dr. Harry J. Wilson, visiting professor of geography at ONU, and Dr. Seungmug Lee, assistant professor at Western Illinois University, are co-authors of a chapter in the new book “Crime Prevention.”Chapter 8, “Spatial Analysis of Property Crimes, Foreclosure and Other Socio-Economic Variables: An Examination of Garfield Heights, Ohio” details the work the three authors performed on the relationship between property crime, residential...
Dr. James Schul, assistant professor of education, recently presented a research paper at the annual meeting of the College and University Faculty Assembly within the National Council for the Social Studies Convention held in Washington, D.C. The paper was titled “Toward a Community of Learners: An Experienced Teacher’s Integration of Desktop Documentary Making in a General Secondary History Classroom.Schul also had an article recently accepted for publication in The Journal of Social...
