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Two receive College of Engineering’s Distinguished Alumni Award

Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, March 1, 2015

Ohio Northern University’s T.J. Smull College of Engineering honored Brenda Reichelderfer and Carey (Wurgler) Smith with Distinguished Alumni Awards on Feb. 23.

Brenda Reichelderfer
As senior vice president and managing director of TriVista, Reichelderfer, who earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering with a business management option from ONU in 1980, has more than 30 years of experience in general management, engineering and operations.

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ONU student awarded USITT scholarship

Posted by Anne Pannabecke... on Friday, February 27, 2015

https://www.onu.edu/node/64377Ohio Northern University student Brandea McIntyre, a senior international theatre production and Spanish dual major from Cincinnati, Ohio, was awarded the 2015 United States Institute of Theatre Technology (USITT) Ohio Valley National Conference Scholarship.

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Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law presents lecture on ‘Estate Planning for Alternative Couples’

Posted by Anne Pannabecke... on Friday, February 27, 2015

Ohio Northern University’s Pettit College of Law will present “Estate Planning for Alternative Couples” in the Dicke Forum on Friday, March 13, at 3 p.m. The event is sponsored by the ONU LAMBDA Law Students’ Association.

This event is free to the public; however, there is a fee for those seeking continuing legal education credit.

Joan M. Burda, attorney with a solo practice in Lakewood, Ohio, and Maria L. Shinn, family law attorney with Shinn Lanter LLP in Lakewood, Ohio, will discuss the rising issue of LGBT couples creating families in Ohio.

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A KISS concert at ONU? Sorry, you're 40 years too late

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, February 25, 2015

A group of Ohio Northern University students and their professor are researching the concert and how it impacted the Ada community, according to Harry Wilson of ONU's management and information systems.

This May 9th marks the 40th anniversary of the event at ONU’s newly-built King Horn center. This was during KISS’ Dressed to Kill tour and they were on the verge of becoming very famous. 

"We have reason to believe that KISS played Rock & Roll All Nite for the first time ever live at the ONU concert," said Wilson.

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110 ONU students heading south - not for the beach; they'll volunteer for Habitat for Humanity

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Ohio Northern University’s Habitat for Humanity Chapter will send 110 students on work trips for spring break March 1-7.

Instead of heading down south for a week on a beach with friends, these ONU students will build homes for families in need. The habitat work teams will travel to Sumter, S.C., Jackson, Miss., and Davidson, N.C., and partner with Habitat for Humanity affiliates to work on homes in the area.

The spring break work trips have been the chapter’s tradition for 25 years.

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United Methodist Church bell - it's a story of community involvement

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, February 24, 2015

It make take a community to put a church bell in a place on honor.

Ohio Northern University engineering students participated in the bell project. ONU students learned woodworking principles from master woodworker Scott Phillips from "The American Woodshop " television program on PBS.

Phillips is helping with an EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) project to build a wooden display pedestal for the bell from the Ada United Methodist Church that was destroyed by fire in March 2013.

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