Students in the News

Three civil engineering students: Nathan Bair, a senior from Upper Sandusky, Ohio; Joel Metzker, a junior from Sunbury, Ohio; and Justin Stone, a senior from Burton, Ohio, have been awarded the Flexible Pavement of Ohio Scholarships of $1,000 each, for the 2009-2010 academic year.

Flexible Pavements of Ohio is an association for the development, improvement and achievement of quality asphalt pavement construction in Ohio. Each year is provides 25 to 30 scholarship awards to Ohio students. It also sponsors a student asphalt mixture competition.

Ohio Northern University student Andrew Steingass, a senior studio arts major from Ada, Ohio, was selected as a winner for the 2009 Excellence in Visual Arts Award from the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Ohio (AICUO). He also was one of six finalists for the AICUO Grand Award. The students were chosen from a field of 21 students nominated from colleges and universities affiliated with the AICUO.

For the seventh-consecutive year, the ONU chapter of the political science honor society Pi Sigma Alpha has received a grant through the society's national office. This year, the ONU chapter received $1,279 to conduct research on the 2008 Electoral College.

Dr. Robert Alexander, BA '94, associate professor of political science and the chapter advisor, said that, with the recent presidential election and meeting of the Electoral College, it "made sense" to make it the focus of Pi Sigma Alpha's research.

Two Ohio Northern athletic training students will be among those traveling to Washington, D.C., as part of the National Athletic Trainers' Association's (NATA) inaugural iLead Student Leadership Program Feb. 21-23. Jenn Kinsley, a junior from North Olmsted, Ohio, and Courtney Overstreet, a senior from Fayetteville, Ohio, were chosen to represent ONU in the program.