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Arts & Science News
Ohio Northern University has announced the establishment of two endowed scholarships, in the name of Charlene S. McComas, that will benefit students in the Getty College of Arts & Sciences.The two endowed scholarships, the Charlene S. McComas Memorial Scholarship for an English major and the Charlene S. McComas Memorial Scholarship for a public relations major, were made possible through the generous donation of her parents, the late Clyde and Viola McComas, and her siblings, the Roy and...
Brian Myers, Ohio Northern University associate professor of chemistry, has co-written an article, “Profiles in Chemistry: A Historical Perspective on the National Organic Symposium,” which will be featured in the June issue of The Journal of Organic Chemistry.Co-authored with Edward Fenton, associate professor of chemistry at Franklin and MarshallCollege, the article also will be distributed to attendees of the 43rd annual National Organic Chemistry Symposium (NOS) at the...
Ohio Northern University presented Dankook Awards to Jennifer Krauss, a senior mathematics major from Pickerington, Ohio, and Sean McKee, a sixth-year pharmacy major from Salem, Ohio, at ONU’s Honors Day on April 27.Presented since 1974, the Dankook Award is an annual reciprocal award exchanged between Dankook University in South Korea and Ohio Northern University. The award recognizes students with outstanding records in academics, student leadership, co-curricular activities and service.The...
Students in Phillip Zoladz, Ph.D.’s, laboratory recently published a manuscript based on work that was completed over the past couple of years at ONU. The research was funded by an undergraduate research grant from Psi Chi that was awarded to Hanna Burke, BS ’11.Other members of the research team are Cristina Robinson, BS ’13, Bethany Wentz, BS ’12, Jerel McKay, BS ’12, Kyle Dexter, a junior in psychology, Julia Pisansky, BS ’12, Jeffery Talbot, Ph.D., associate professor of pharmacology and...
Phillip Zoladz, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology, and David Diamond from the University of South Florida are authors of a major review article, “Current status on behavioral and biological markers of PTSD: A search for clarity in a conflicting literature.”The article in the journal Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews deals with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The article addresses inconsistencies in the research literature concerning behavioral and biological markers of PTSD...
Two Ohio Northern University students in the West Central Ohio Medical Laboratory Science program have received the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) National Student Honor Award. Jen Tabar, a senior biology major from Hinkley, Ohio, and Stephen Pavlock, a post-baccalaureate certificate candidate who received his Bachelor of Science from West Virginia University, will be presented with a certificate from the ASCP at ONU’s graduation celebration on May 10.To be eligible for the...
Mark Cruea, instructor of communication arts, has been elected vice chair and program planner for the Great Ideas For Teaching (G.I.F.T.) interest group of the Central States Communication Association for the 2013-14 academic year.At the 2013 Central States Communication Association meeting held April 6 in Kansas City, Mo., Cruea served as chair of a panel on “Rethinking Television: Content, Effects, and Possibilities.” The panel focused on how television influences perceptions of people and...
Jim Schul, Ph.D., assistant professor of education, has recently had the following two articles accepted for publication in peer-reviewed journals: “Film Pedagogy in the History Classroom: Desktop Documentary Making Skills for History Teachers and Students” has been accepted by The Social Studies. “Schism in the Schoolhouse: A Historical Reflection on the Strenuous Relationship between the Arts and Sciences and Educationists within the AHA Commission on the Social Studies (1929-1934)” has been...
ONU students presented their ecology research about the biology of the Mad River watershed, microbiology research on herbal ethnobotany and physiology research on positional effects of distractions on reaction time at the 122nd annual meeting of the Ohio Academy of Science, held April 6, 2013, at the University of Findlay.Podium presentations:Chad Carroll, a senior in environmental studies from Mount Cory, Ohio, and Dawn DeColibus, a senior in biology from...
The Ohio Northern University Department of English presents author Simone Muench in the Pettit College of Law Moot Court room on Thursday, April 4, at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.Muench was raised in Louisiana and Arkansas and now lives in Chicago. She is the author of “The Air Lost in Breathing” (Marianne Moore Prize for Poetry), “Lampblack & Ash” (Kathryn A. Morton Prize for Poetry), “Orange Crush,” and “Disappearing Address,” co-written with Philip Jenks.After...
