John Nottingham, co-founder and co-president of Nottingham Spirk, and Jason Ertel, engineering program director for Nottingham Spirk, will be the featured speakers for the Ohio Northern University Spotts Lecture in the Freed Center for the Performing Arts on Monday, Feb. 22, at 7:30 p.m. The duo’s speech, “Creative Collisions,” is free and open to the public.
Nottingham is the co-founder and co-president of Nottingham Spirk (NS), a leading business innovation firm with nearly 1,000 commercialized patents. The Nottingham Spirk “Vertical Innovation” process has helped client/partner companies earn more than $50 billion in combined sales.
That's right, for two days in early March, you might as well refer to Ohio Northern University as Corn University and Soybean School.
Why?
The Conservation Tillage Conference will be held at the McIntosh Center Wednesday and Thursday, March 2 and 3. It's an event put on by The Ohio State University’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES).
Over 900 persons are expected to attend.
CTC will offer many presentations to help growers learn where to cut back while ensuring they have healthy soils, healthy water and hopefully a healthy bank account.
Photos and story by Monty Siekerman
When a person in business hears the word "strike," he cringes.
A "strike" in baseball isn't good either, if you are the batter. But a "strike" in bowling is a winner. And a business bowling tournament on Tuesday was a winner for scholarships.
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The Ada Rotary Club sponsored the tourney at Norada Lanes to raise funds for two $1,000 scholarships that the civic club awards each year: bowling for a good cause, and fun, too.
Shayla Siefker, a fifth-year Ohio Northern University pharmacy student from Ottoville, Ohio, was named the Northwest Ohio Pharmacists Association (NWOPA) Scholarship award-winner for the 2015-16 academic year.
NWOPA officials presented Siefker with a $750 scholarship award at an awards ceremony in Lima, on Jan. 28. Students were evaluated on several metrics, and judges blindly selected the winner from a pool of nine other finalists.
