You are here

Home » News

Ohio Northern University

Children’s auditions set for ONU ‘Holiday Spectacular’

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Ohio Northern University will hold children’s auditions for the “Holiday Spectacular” at 1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 25, in the campus’ Freed Center for the Performing Arts.

»

ONU Pharmacy Associate Dean completes leadership program

Posted by Anne Pannabecke... on Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Dr. Kelly Shields, associate dean at the Ohio Northern University Raabe College of Pharmacy, recently completed the American Association Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Academic Leadership Fellows Program (ALFP). The year-long fellowship began in July 2015, and finished with a commencement ceremony on July 23, 2016, at the AACP Annual Meeting in Anaheim Calif.

»

Community service efforts set tone for engaged learning as ONU begins 2016-17 academic year

Posted by Anne Pannabecke... on Saturday, August 20, 2016

Ohio Northern University will put active learning and community involvement into practice with the fifth annual Ada Community Engagement (ACE) Day beginning at 9 a.m. on Aug. 20. The program is designed to engage incoming students with their community and provides opportunities for ONU’s first-year students contribute to the village.

»

Son of ONU icon Helen Spar Ludwig gifts $500,000 estate to her memorial scholarship fund

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Family members of former Ohio Northern University professor and women’s athletics pioneer Dr. Helen Spar Ludwig have made a $508,000 gift to support the scholarship fund that bears her name.

James “Jim” Ludwig, Helen’s son, passed away in April 2015 and requested that the remaining value from the 2010 sale of his farm in Dola, Ohio, be directed to ONU.

Jim Ludwig’s brother Gary Ludwig, sister Jacqueline Sperling and sister-in-law Charolette Ludwig presented the gift to ONU President Daniel A. DiBiasio in June 2016 after the estate was finalized.

»

ONU coach serves on Paralympics Games coaching staff in Brazil

Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, July 31, 2016

By Tim Glon

Ohio Northern men's swimming and diving coach Peggy Ewald is adding another international accomplishment to her impressive resume.

She will serve on the coaching staff for Team USA at the 2016 Paralympics Games Sept. 7-18 in Rio de Jeneiro, Brazil.  

This marks the third Paralympics Games in which Ewald has represented Team USA, as she was also part of the coaching staff of the 2008 Paralympics Games in Beijing, China, and the 2012 Paralympic Games in London, England.

»

One giant leap for ONU - Engineering students build moon buggy replica

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, July 19, 2016

FROM ONU FACEBOOK - In the years that followed Neil Armstrong’s historic first step onto the moon, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) understood that, in order to maximize the value of their astronauts’ brief time on the lunar surface, they would need to expand their effective range.

In the early 1970s, the Boeing Corporation began building lunar roving vehicles (LRVs), to help astronauts explore more territory. The first LRV, or “moon buggy” as it was affectionately called, was launched with the Apollo 15 mission on July 26, 1971.

»

Pages