Kayla Hummell of Hilliard has received the 2017 Catherine Freed Outstanding Senior Female Leadership and Service Award from ONU. Hummell graduated from ONU this spring with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a minor in applied mathematics.
Ohio Northern University alumni weekend is set for Friday to Sunday, June 2-4. The weekend schedule follows:
Friday, June 2
1-6 p.m.
Registration
McIntosh, Main Lounge
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Historian Presentation
McIntosh Center, Dean’s Heritage Room
Ohio Northern University’s historian, Paul Logsdon, will present on the University’s history.
2:30-3:30 p.m.
Tours of the campus
Walking, golf cart and shuttle options. Tours depart from the registration area in McIntosh at 2:35 p.m. Athletic facility tours available.
Seven international students who are on a mission to improve legal education in their home countries will be among the graduates when the Ohio Northern University College of Law holds its commencement ceremony on May 21.
Six law instructors from Kosovo and one from Afghanistan have spent the 2016-17 academic year developing their teaching skills while earning the LL.M. in Democratic Governance and Rule of Law.
They are enrolled in the Program in Legal Pedagogy and Instruction and will earn certificates in that area in addition to their advanced law degrees.
Mike DeWine, Attorney General for the State of Ohio, and ONU alumus is this year's speaker at the Pettit College of Law commencement on Sunday, May 21.
He and his family have strong connections to the ONU College of Law. DeWine earned an honorary doctorate from Ohio Northern in 1995. Further, his daughter Alice graduated from ONU’s College of Law in 2008.
The commencement exercises will be held at 2 p.m. on May 21. Doors will open at 12:30 p.m., with the musical prelude at 1:30 p.m. and the academic processional at 1:45 pm. A reception will be held in the College of Law building following the ceremony.
Ohio Northern University Alumna Katelyn Amendolara (BFA/art education ’11) recently traveled to the Middle East to study culture and art as part of curriculum development for the Ohio Department of Education.
Katelyn is currently an art teacher at the Jackson-Milton high school located in North Jackson, Ohio. She teaches 7 through 12 grades and organizes an adult art program throughout the year. Katelyn also organizes an after school art club for students interested in furthering their education. She was awarded an “influential teacher award” in Mahoning county in 2015.
The Ohio Northern University Raabe College of Pharmacy has been awarded a 2017 National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) Foundation Excellence in Pharmacy Education Scholarship.
The $20,000 grant will support a two-year program to utilize the college’s Mobile Health Clinic to screen 1,000 underserved patients in Hardin County for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection.
The Mobile Health Clinic improves access to health care services for the county’s rural residents. The NACDS Foundation grant will expand those services to include testing for HCV, which will begin July 1.
