ONU is hosting 66 middle school girls this week for Camp GEMS to learn about careers in engineering, math, and science through workshops with faculty and ONU students.
Ohio Northern students and athletes will return to campus in August and be greeted with new and improved weight room equipment in the ONU Sports Center.
The free weights, supplied by Legend Fitness Company, are available to students, faculty and staff during normal Sports Center hours.
"We are very excited about the improvements that were made to the weight room this summer," ONU director of athletics Tom Simmons said. "We believe they will better serve the need of the campus community and our student/athletes."
By Monty Siekerman
ONU welcomed 14 counselors from throughout the world on Thursday to see the campus facilities and learn about the academic programs so that they can return to their home countries and advise their local students about which U.S. college might be a good fit for them.
The counselors spent the day at ONU before heading to Findlay and BGSU.
They came from the tiny rich island nation of Brunei, populace China, former foe Vietnam, USA friend Jordan and elsewhere.
The list also included Cambodia, Ecuador, Honduras, Kazakhstan, Paupa New Guinea, Peru, Russia, Serbia, and Sri Lanka. It was a mini-UN.
Dr. Holly Lynn Baumgartner is the new dean of the ONU Getty College of Arts & Sciences.
She earned her BA magna cum laude in English literature/classical studies from the University of Toledo, her MA in American culture studies from Bowling Green State University and her Ph.D. in English from Bowling Green State University.
She was previously the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Lourdes University in Sylvania, Ohio. Dr. Tena Roepke served as interim dean last year.
The following students from Hardin County were named to the ONU Dean’s List for spring semester. To be eligible for the Dean’s List, a student must attain a grade point average of 3.5 or higher and be enrolled full-time.
ONU students won many awards in the 2017 Society for Collegiate Journalists (SCJ) annual national contest.
Grant Pepper, a senior multimedia journalism major from Centerville, Ohio, was awarded honorable mention in the category of “Breaking or Hard News Stories” for his piece on drug issues in Hardin County. He won second place in the “Multi
Story News Series” category for his stories on Devan Price. Pepper also won third place in “Sports News,” second place in the “Radio Sports Package” category, and first place and honorable mention in the “Sports Feature” category.
