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Three ONU students have been awarded scholarships from the Order of Omega.Shana Tachikawa, a senior in journalism from Powell, Ohio, has been awarded the Patrick W. Holloran Scholarship while Jillian Schwerer, a senior in middle childhood education from Whitehouse, Ohio, and Tiffany Olberding, a pharmacy student from Minster, Ohio, have been awarded the Dr. Kent L. Gardner scholarships.Order of Omega is a leadership honor society for members of Greek organizations. This year the organization...
Ohio Northern University’s mock trial program will host the sixth annual Polar Bear Invitational Mock Trial Tournament from Jan. 14-15. The competition will take place at ONU’s Pettit College of Law, Hill Building and Dukes Memorial. More than 400 students from 26 colleges and universities representing 25 states will participate in the tournament. The tournament consists of four rounds, with trials taking place simultaneously in each round. Each mock trial has a panel of two judges who...
The Ohio Northern University Astronomy Club will host a star party at the ONU Observatory on Friday, Dec. 2, from 8:30-10:30 p.m.At the star party, attendees will look for the moon, Jupiter, the Pleiades star cluster and the Andromeda Galaxy.This event is free and open to the public.In the event of cloudy or unfavorable atmospheric conditions, the event will be canceled. Please consult the observatory website for news on future viewing dates and possible cancellations and to view maps of the...
Dr. Rebecca L. Casey, Ohio Northern University associate professor of music, will present a piano recital in Presser Hall’s Snyder Recital Hall on Saturday, Dec. 3, 2011, at 2 p.m.The recital will feature contemporary piano works by Sergei Rachmaninoff, David Guion, Maurice Ravel and Alberto Ginastera.Casey will play Rachmaninoff’s “Le Tombeau de Couperin,” a suite consisting of six parts: the Prelude, Fuge (II), Forlane (III), Rigaudon (IV), Menuet (V) and Toccata (VI).Guion’s “Alley Tunes:...
Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics Laurence Robinson recently gave two presentations. The first, “Let’s Make a Deal: I’ll Explain’The Monty Hall Problem’ in the Simplest Terms Possible If You Promise to Never Never Bring It Up Again,” was presented at the 39th Miami University Conference on Mathematics in October, 2011. In the paper Robinson explained the history of the Monty Hall Problem and gave a solution of it. Also in October...
Courtney Brown a junior in mathematics and German from Coldwater, Ohio, presented a paper on a class of absolutely irreducible polynomials in two variables over a finite field inducing the zero function. The presentation took place at the 2011 Undergraduate Mathematics Day, Nov.5, at the University of Dayton. The paper builds on a result of his advisor, Dr. Mihai Caragiu and obtains an explicit formula for a series of such polynomials.
Senior mathematics major, Lauren Cassell from Vandalia, Ohio, presented the paper, “Guarding a Koch Fractal Art Gallery,” and senior mathematics major Joseph Mileski from Tiffin, Ohio, presented the paper, “Paths of Melody Lines on Circles,” at the fall meeting of the Ohio Section of the Mathematics Association of America at the University of Findlay, Oct. 21, 2011Cassell’s paper dealt with calculating the density of watchmen needed to guard an infinitely-sided fractal art...
Ohio Northern University’s Department of History, Politics and Justice will host Social Studies Day in the Forum of James F. Dicke Hall on Nov. 11 at 9 a.m.Social Studies Day at Ohio Northern will consist of six presentations delivered by ONU faculty to teachers and students from local school districts. The participating ONU faculty members are Robert Alexander, Raymond Schuck, John Lomax, Robert Waters, Jimmy Wilson and James Schul.Topics will include “Interest Groups in American Politics,” “...
Ohio Northern University’s William Fuller and Maria Raiti, associate professors of mathematics and statistics, have recently co-published an article, “Modeling of Heat Conduction along Vein Walls in Endovenous Laser Treatment,” with Ron Bush, a vascular surgeon from Midwest Vein and Laser Center in Centerville, Ohio, in The Internet Journal of Bioengineering.This article provides a model for how heat flows along vein walls during a laser treatment for varicose, abnormally swollen or knotted,...
Ohio Northern University will host “Schools and Prevention,” a panel discussion on heroin, on Monday, Nov. 14, at 7 p.m. in the forum of James F. Dicke Hall. Ohio Northern’s Department of History, Politics and Justice is sponsoring the event, which is free and open to the public. The panel will consist of two area professionals: Lorrie Lewandowski, program coordinator and supervisor of the Wood County Educational Service Center (WCESC) School and Community-Based Alcohol, Tobacco and...
