February 2019

Dr. Jason Pinkney, Professor of Astronomy, Department of Physics & Astronomy, at Ohio Northern University, told members of the Ada Kiwanis Club  about the ONU Observatory at this week's meeting.

He said that the ONU Observatory has a mission to educate and inspire the students of Ohio Northern University, as well as the surrounding community, about the exciting and rapidly evolving science of astronomy. 

Jonathan Pitts, Ph.D., associate professor of English at Ohio Northern University, has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar to Japan for the 2019-20 academic year.

He will teach at American Keio University and Hitotsubashi University in the Tokyo area and lecture in the East Asia and Pacific region. His previous Fulbright award was to Turkey, where he taught in the American Literature and Culture Department at Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey, from 2010-11.

By Tim Glon

Ohio Northern senior All-American Ryan Bruns (Chickasaw/Marion Local) was named First Team All-Ohio Athletic Conference in Men's Basketball for the 2018-19 season in voting conducted by the league's 10 head coaches.

Bruns is now a three-time All-OAC honoree, earning First Team honors in 2018 and Second Team honors as a sophomore in 2017.

The 2018 OAC Player of the Year, Bruns concludes his outstanding collegiate career with 1,686 career points, which ranks fourth all-time in program history.

The powerful painkiller Oxycontin, widely blamed for kickstarting the nation’s opioid crisis, will no longer be newly prescribed for injured workers in the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation’s system starting July 1.

Following a recommendation from BWC Chief Medical Officer Terry Welsh, the agency’s Board of Directors voted today to drop the drug from the BWC formulary and replace it with what Welsh calls “an equally effective but harder-to-abuse drug” named Xtampza ER.