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Dr. Mark Cruea, Ohio Northern University assistant professor of communications studies, and Dr. Sung-Yeon Park of Bowling Green State University co-authored an article, “Gender Disparity in Video Game Usage: A Third-person Perception-based Explanation” that has been published in the refereed scholarly journal Media Psychology.Cruea said the study took a close look at the disparity in video game play between men and women based on perceptions of video game usage and the...
The Department of History, Politics and Justice, and the student organizations of Pi Sigma Alpha, College Democrats, College Republicans and College Libertarians, received an $800 grant from the Ohio Campus Compact’s Campus Election Engagement Project (CEEP) to support on-campus activities aimed at increasing student voter engagement and participation. The funds will be used to support two debates on campus as well as presidential debate watch parties. Non-partisan election related...
Dr. Bruce E. MaryanoffDr. Bruce E. Maryanoff will deliver Ohio Northern University’s 2012 Kritzler Lecture, titled “A Story of Adventure: The Discovery of the Drug TOPAMAX® Topiramate for Treating Epilepsy and Migraines,” in The Freed Center for Performing Arts on Monday, Oct. 8, at 7 p.m. Maryanoff discovered and championed TOPAMAX® topiramate, a unique sugar sulfamate derivative, which is sold worldwide for treating epilepsy and migraine headache. Topiramate is a main component of...
The Ohio Northern University Department of Music will present a concert featuring the ONU Men’s and Women’s Choruses, the University Singers, and ONU Chamber Singers in Presser Hall’s Snyder Recital Hall on Friday, Oct. 5, at 8 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.The concert will open with the ONU Women’s Chorus performing four selections from Michael Este, Matthew Armstrong, John Floyd Campbell and “Wicked” composer Stephen Schwartz. The ONU Women’s Chorus is under the direction of...
Robert Alexander, professor of political science, has been elected to the executive council of Pi Sigma Alpha, the political science honor society. He recently completed a two-year appointment to the council to fill an unexpired term.The executive council consists of the organization’s current officers, president, president-elect, executive director, and newsletter editor, plus the three most recent past presidents and 12 members elected by the membership. The council meets annually at the...
Ohio Northern University’s Freed Center for the Performing Arts presents the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (DCDC) with the ONU Dance Company on Saturday, Sept. 29, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Sept. 30, at 2 p.m.Founded in 1968 by Dayton, Ohio, native Jeraldyne Blunden, DCDC is the oldest modern dance company in Ohio and one of the largest companies of its kind between Chicago and New York City. Now in its 43rd year, DCDC has won national and international acclaim and is renowned for powerful,...
The Ohio Northern University Department of Music presents “An Evening of Chamber Music,” featuring members of the Arad Philharmonic, in Presser Hall’s Snyder Recital Hall on Saturday, Sept. 22, at 4 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.This event is the final stage of an exchange program between ONU and the Arad Philharmonic, located in Western Romania. The Arad Philharmonic is under the administrative direction of Dr. Alin Vacean, with recital members Dorina Moldovan on oboe and Sandu...
ONU’s education and engineering education programs participated in STEM in the Park on Saturday, Sep. 8 on the campus of Bowling Green University. Ken Reid, engineering, and Deb Gallagher, education, designed the activity and exhibit based on "Build a Rubber Band Racecar" from a website from the IEEE featuring low-cost engineering designs for the classroom. Students from elementary through high school were given a set of materials and a handout instructing them to build a car...
Lloyd Butler, Ohio Northern University resident artist, musical director of the musical theatre program and director of the Freed Center Orchestra,will serve as guest conductor when the Lima Symphony Orchestra performs with tenor Ronan Tynan at the Niswonger Performing Arts Center of Northwest Ohio (NPAC) in Van Wert, Ohio, on Sept. 15 at 7:30 p.m.This performance is part of NPAC’s Gala V Celebration weekend, which commemorates the fifth anniversary of the opening of the center. The weekend’s...
Photo courtesy of Kip Evans PhotographyOhio Northern University will host a lecture by leading oceanographer and author Dr. Sylvia A. Earle in the Freed Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday, Sept. 18, at 7 p.m. This lecture is free and open to the public. Earle’s presentation is part of the Keiser Distinguished Lectureship in Life Sciences program, named in honor of Terry D. Keiser, an ONU alumnus and professor of biological sciences. The Keiser Distinguished Lectureship in Life...
