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Pierson gift will impact future ONU engineering students

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, January 23, 2017

In keeping with the spirit of a capital campaign at his alma mater, Craig O. Pierson and his wife, Kay, of Bowling Green, Ohio, have made an impact on future students at Ohio Northern University and his profession through a recent lead gift to the university’s “Campaign for Engineering: Building Impact at ONU,” an endeavor to fund a new building for the T.J. Smull College of Engineering.

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See the space station on Friday

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Monday, January 23, 2017

The ONU Observatory will be open to the public when the International Space Station flies by Mars and Venus. The public is invited to view the fly-by from 8-10 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 27. The observatory is located on the south side of West Lincoln Avenue and east of Klingler Road.

At 8:24 p.m., the space station will rise in the southwest and pass by Venus and Mars, as seen from Ada.  The brightness of the space station will be only rivaled by Venus.

After the space station passes, those attending will observe Mars and Venus as well as deep sky objects using the many telescopes at the ONU Observatory. 

The event is free and open to the public.

 

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ONU faculty members receive NIH grant for interdisciplinary research project

Boyd Rorabaugh and Phillip Zoladz
Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, January 22, 2017

Ohio Northern University faculty members Boyd Rorabaugh, Ph.D., and Phillip Zoladz, Ph.D., have received a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the impact of chronic psychological stress on the heart. Their work has implications for patients who have heart attacks while struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
 
Rorabaugh, associate professor of pharmacology and cell biology, is the principal investigator, and Zoladz, associate professor of psychology, is a co-investigator.
 

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Trump’s challenge to unify nation is daunting but not impossible

According to ONU faculty member Robert Waters
Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, January 20, 2017

President-elect Trump faces a difficult task in unifying a divided nation, but it is not an impossible task, according to Ohio Northern University faculty member Robert Waters, who teaches courses on the U.S. presidency.
 

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College of Engineering and Dean Baumgartner recognized for entrepreneurial excellence

From Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network
Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, January 19, 2017

The Ohio Northern University T.J. Smull College of Engineering received two awards at the recent Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) national conference in Jacksonville, Fla.
 
The College of Engineering earned the 2016 KEEN Outstanding Institution Award, and ONU College of Engineering Dean Eric Baumgartner received the 2016 Outstanding Dean Award. KEEN is a network of 29 institutions that is focused on cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset among engineering students.
 

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The latest display at Elzay Gallery of Art

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Thursday, January 19, 2017

There is a piece of white cloth that the sun turned blue in the current exhibit at Elzay Gallery of Art. Impossible?
Emily Jay (pictured) explains that a chemical used by photographers long ago to develop pictures was applied to the white cloth, except where the stars are.
She and a student carried the cloth out into the sun, which because of the chemical, turned the white cloth blue, except for the stars which were covered to keep them white.
Emily knew this would occur because she teaches photography at ONU.
How does a blue cloth with white stars fit into the theme of the show?
Emily said the cloth looks like the ceilings of the cathedrals in Italy.

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