The Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law has announced the inaugural year of “Summer in Iceland,” the nation’s first American Bar Association (ABA) approved study-abroad summer program in Iceland.
The Ohio Northern University Department of Music presents a night of “Pipes, Dances and Drums” by the ONU Symphony Orchestra on Sunday, Feb. 22, at 4:30 p.m. in the Freed Center for the Performing Arts.
The program includes dances by Johann Strauss Jr., Johannes Brahms, and living Mexican composer Arturo Márquez. After intermission, the ONU Symphony Orchestra will perform Camille Saint-Saëns’ Symphony No. 3 in C minor, which is also known as the “Organ Symphony.” Professor Mary Jane Eichelberger will join the orchestra as organist.
Carey (Wurgler) Smith, president of Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc., will be the featured speaker for the Ohio Northern University Spotts Lecture in the Freed Center for the Performing Arts on Monday, Feb. 23, at 7:30 p.m.
Smith’s speech, “Protecting Our Homeland: Past, Present and Future,” is free and open to the public.
Taxpayers in Hardin and surrounding counties can find free income tax assistance from Ohio Northern University business and law students through Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA).
The VITA Program offers free tax help to low- to moderate-income (generally $53,000 and below) individuals across the country who cannot prepare tax returns on their own. As part of this program, ONU students receive training and become IRS-certified to help prepare basic and intermediate tax returns and identify special credits, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), Child Tax Credit and Credit for the Elderly.
The Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law and St. John Fisher College in Pittsford, N.Y., have announced a 3+3 Legal Education Accelerated Program (LEAP), which will allow legal studies majors and pre-law students at Fisher an opportunity to earn both their undergraduate and law degrees in six years, while minimizing the cost of their educations.
The Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law’s 16th annual Diversity Forum will discuss “The New Age of Legal Diversity” in the Celebrezze Large Moot Court Room on Friday, Feb. 20, at 11 a.m.
The ONU Black Law Student Association (BLSA), in partnership with the ONU Student Bar Association, ONU Office of Multicultural Affairs, Black Student Union, the Student Bar Association and the Legal Association of Women, is sponsoring the event.
