Arts & Science News
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Ohio Northern University student Christopher M. Lemon, a graduating senior chemistry, physics and mathematics major from Lower Burrell, Pa., has been awarded a Fulbright full grant. The award will fund his graduate study in inorganic chemistry at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Lemon will research the synthesis of anti-cancer metallotherapeutics (metal-based drugs) under the mentorship of Dr. Penny Brothers.
"Chris' Fulbright is of great significance for the College of Arts...
The Ohio Northern University Department of Art and Design proudly announces the annual Student Juried Exhibition, which will be on display at ArtSpace/Lima's Loft Gallery from May 2-11 in Lima, Ohio.
A committee of sophomore art and design majors is responsible for organizing and presenting the show, traditionally the most popular gallery event of the academic year. This year's exhibition will feature original work in a variety of media: ceramics, oils and watercolors, photographs,...

















