Ohio Northern University

Fostering family at ONU - it has white fur but it's not a polar bear

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, October 23, 2014

This story is posted with permission of Ohio Northern University. The story is on ONU's website

What has white fur, a black nose and walks on four legs? At Ohio Northern University, the answer to that question is usually “polar bear.” But if you ask it around campus lately, don’t be surprised if you hear “Viking” in response more often than not.

No, the newest member of the ONU family isn't a polar bear. He’s a 7-month-old golden retriever puppy named Viking. And, like the rest of his ONU brethren, he’s special.

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Northern Winds perform Russian music Oct. 26 at Freed Center

Posted by Mary Pannabecke... on Friday, October 17, 2014

Ohio Northern University’s Freed Center for the Performing Arts presents an evening of Russian music featuring the Ohio Northern University Wind Orchestra on Sunday, Oct. 26, at 4:30 p.m.

The Northern Winds, under the direction of Thomas A. Hunt, will perform a concert of Russian music for winds and percussion. The program includes works by Gliere, Prokofiev, Kozhevnikov and Shostakovich. The soloist for the Gliere horn concerto is ONU senior Brandon Guillen, a mathematical statistics major from Lima, Ohio.

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ONU receives EPA grant to fund limestone project

Posted by Mary Pannabecke... on Friday, October 17, 2014

The T.J. Smull College of Engineering has received a $15,000 People, Prosperity and the Planet (P3) grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to fund “The Lowering CO2 Emission and Making Concrete More Environmentally Friendly by Adding Limestone” project.

Under the supervision of Ahmed Abdel-Mohti, assistant professor of civil engineering, and Bryan Boulanger, associate professor of civil engineering, Ohio Northern civil engineering students will spend the year investigating a design to make concrete more environmentally friendly by adding limestone.

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Guadete Brass Quintet to perform at ONU Oct. 24

Posted by Mary Pannabecke... on Friday, October 17, 2014

The Ohio Northern University Department of Music presents the Gaudete Brass Quintet in the Snyder Recital Hall in the Presser Building at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24.

The Chicago-based Gaudete Brass Quintet performs works by contemporary composers Eric Ewazen, Joan Tower, John David Sampson and John Cheetham as well as works from the Renaissance by De Wert and Praetorius.

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ONU to present discussion on "Living both faith and science"

Posted by Mary Pannabecke... on Thursday, October 16, 2014

Ohio Northern University Department of Philosophy and Religion and the Office of the Chaplain will present a discussion on “Living Both Faith and Science” in the English Chapel at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22. The event is free and open to the public.

This event will be a conversation about the relationship between science and religion. In contemporary society, many think that science and religion are “at war” with each other. However, scholars have challenged this view as overly simplistic. This “conflict view” neglects the ways that religion and science historically have been sometimes complementary and, at other times, in competition.

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