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Arts & Science News
Nils Riess, Ohio Northern University professor of communications arts, director of media communication services and performing arts, and chair of the Department of Communication and Theatre Arts, will serve as chairman of the international judging committee at the 2012 Estonian Theater Drama and Baltic Theatre Festival in Tartu, Estonia, beginning Sept. 3.“It is an honor to be recognized and selected to judge in my homeland. It gives me an opportunity to engage with other theatre dignitaries...
Dr. Forrest Clingerman, associate professor of philosophy and religion, is program director on a $1,500 grant to Ohio Northern University from the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Religion and Theology that will bring together three scholars working on projects in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) for a three-day peer consultation and a writers’ retreat. This allows the scholars, Drs. Clingerman of ONU, Jennifer Ayres of Emory University, and Kevin O’Brien of Pacific...
Lloyd Butler, director of the Freed Center Orchestra, will be guest conductor with the Lima Symphony Orchestra on Sept. 15. The program will include singer Ronan Tynan, one of the Three Iris Tenors. In 1998, Tynan joined Anthony Kearns and John McDermott (later Finbar Wright) as The Irish Tenors and they became an instant worldwide sensation.
The ONU-SOLVE Problem Group, advised by Mihai Caragiu, professor of mathematics, and Mohammad Zaki, assistant professor of mathematics, was recognized twice in Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 85, No. 3, June 2012, among the persons or problem solving groups that submitted correct solutions to Problem 1872, and Problem 1873.
Khristo Boyadzhiev, professor of mathematics and statistics, presented a paper, “Equiangular Spirals, Equiangular Surfaces and Self-similar Surfaces in Biology,” at the BIOMATH 2012 International Conference held June 17-22 in Sofia, Bulgaria. The equiangular spiral is used to explain the trajectories of insects orientating themselves with respect to a light source. There are two independent properties that characterize the logarithmic spiral. The first property is that it is...
Dr. Forrest Clingerman, associate professor of philosophy and religion, is the author of a paper presented at a conference in South Africa. The paper, “The Theological Dimensions of Environmental Identity,” was presented at the culminating conference of the Christian Faith and the Earth research project. The project gathered leading theologians from every continent (except Antarctica) to assess the state of Christian religious thought on the environment. The conference was held...
Students from Ohio Northern University are traveling to the Republican and Democratic conventions and will participate in The Washington Center’s Democratic and Republican National Convention Academic Seminars.Eight of the ONU students will attend The Washington Center’s Republican National Convention Seminar in Tampa Bay, Fla., beginning on Aug. 18, and two ONU students will participate in the Democratic National Convention Seminar in Charlotte, N.C., which commences on Aug. 25. The ONU...
Two ONU students, Andy Burns, a sophomore in music education from Circleville, Ohio, and Alex Wiles, a sophomore in management from Cridersville, Ohio, along with Rocky Riddle of Ohio State University, took part in 12-week paid summer internships as part of the Next Generations Leadership Ministry Interns program sponsored by the West Ohio Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. As part of the internships, the students served under a mentor in a host church while exploring a call to...
ONU’s chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honor society, has been named a “Best Chapter of the Year” by the national organization. Out of 749 chapters, the award is given to fewer than 10 universities across the country.ONU’s Pi Iota chapter was chosen as one of five best chapters in schools with enrollments of fewer than 6,000 students.The award recognizes chapters that are active in their departments and exhibit high levels of energy and creativity in furthering the...
Jo Ann Scott, professor of political science, is co-author of an article accepted for publication by the Atlantic Law Journal. The article, titled "Enhancing Critical Thinking Skills Through Mock Trial," is co-authored by Daniel J. Herron and Ruth Wagoner.
