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Public relations students develop campaign against bias, win honorable mention

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Tuesday, February 28, 2017

The public relations program at Ohio Northern  won an honorable mention and $500 in the global Peer to Peer (P2P): Challenging Extremism campaign during the 2016-17 academic year. Hosted by EdVenture Partners, Facebook and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, participants of the P2P program were asked to develop a campaign challenging Islamophobia.

 

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ONU distinguished alumni awards

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Friday, February 24, 2017

Daniel Walker (left), president of Kokosing Industrial in Westerville, and Charles Leader, founder of Leader Fabricating in Napoleon, are this year's recipients of distinguished alumni awards from the engineering college. Kokosing is one of the largest contractors in the Midwest with annual sales of $1 billion. Walker is vice chair of the ONU board of trustees. Leader, who grew up on a farm in McComb, holds several patents. His company designs solutions and machines for companies across the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia

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All about an ONU pharmacy student's internship

Heather Shaffer: "It ignites my drive to help others"
Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, February 22, 2017

FROM ONU WEBSITE - It’s repeating the answer to an elderly patient’s question one more time. It’s reassuring a nervous child before giving a flu shot. It’s teaching a patient how to use his epi-pen to possibly save his life one day. Pharmacy is all of these things, but most of all, it’s personal.

To many, interactions such as these may seem perfectly ordinary, but for fifth-year ONU pharmacy student Heather Shaffer, they are the reasons she wants to be a pharmacist.

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Discrimination, bias topic of Feb. 28 meeting

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Tuesday, February 21, 2017

"Discrimination and implicit bias: An exploration of unconscious bias and remedies provided by the law” will be the topic of a forum at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 28 at the law college. The program is free and open to the public.

This presentation will detail the current body of law in the state of Ohio regarding sexual harassment, gender stereotyping, gender identity and retaliation. It will cover legal remedies and tools that are available for groups and individuals who are and have been systematically subjected to discrimination. The program will feature two speakers.

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Centennial Dixieland Jazz Band to perform Feb. 26

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Sunday, February 19, 2017

The Centennial Dixieland Jass Band (CDJB) will perform at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 26 in the Freed Center.

The CDJB is led by David Kosmyna, ONU associate professor of music. He is joined by Ray Heitger, leader of the Cakewalkin’ Jass Band in Toledo, on clarinet; James Dapogny, emeritus faculty member at the University of Michigan, on piano; Chris Smith, co-leader of Ann Arbor’s only classic jazz band, on trombone; and Pete Siers, a versatile and in-demand drummer.

The upcoming concert celebrates 100 years, to the day, of the first recorded jazz by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band in New York City.

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ONU Symphony to perform world premiere Feb. 26

Glory, War and Peace by guest composer; also on concert music from China
Posted by Monty Siekerman on Sunday, February 19, 2017

The music department will present the Ohio Northern Symphony concert “Glory, War and Peace” at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 26, in the Freed Center. The concert will feature a world premiere by guest composer Nathan Pangrazio.

The suite is in reference to the Civil War and will include several movements.

Pangrazio is an Emmy-winning composer with an extensive background in classical training as a composer, a pianist, a choral conductor and a singer. He was recognized at an early age as a remarkable and prodigious composer, and at 15 he was commissioned to write his first piece that achieved widespread attention.

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