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ONU professor of management named certified board advisor

Michele Govekar, Ohio Northern University professor of management, has been named a Certified Board Advisor by the Center for Strategic Business Integrity.

 The CBA designation is granted to a select group of individuals with the responsibility for acting as director of and/or as key advisor to corporate boards. The CBA is responsible for driving robust oversight of any corporate enterprise by deterring, detecting, responding and resolving material corporate negligence in strategic decision-making as well as business irregularities and corruption before the damage is done.

Ohio Northern University to host Polar Preview, Experience ONU Day

Area high school students will have the opportunity to visit Ohio Northern University during three different events. Prospective students can attend Polar Preview Day on Oct. 17 and Nov. 1, and Experience ONU Day on Oct. 22

On Polar Preview Day, students will have the opportunity to talk with current ONU students about their campus experiences, the college selection process and why they chose to attend Ohio Northern.

Prospective students can also attend academic sessions with the deans of the ONU colleges and discuss ONU with current students in a panel discussion, and parents will have the opportunity to sit in on financial aid sessions. Tours also will be available.

Ohio Northern University kicks off 2014 Reading Series with Author Alissa Nutting

The Ohio Northern University Department of English opens its 2014 Fall Reading Series with author Alissa Nutting in the Elzay Gallery of Art at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15. This event is free and open to the public.

Nutting is author of the novel “Tampa” and the short story collection “Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls.” The book was selected by judge Ben Marcus as winner of the sixth Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction. The book is currently a ForeWard Book of the Year Finalist as well as a current Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal finalist for thought-provoking texts.

'75 ONU law grad outstanding service award winner

Ohio Northern University’s James F. Dicke College of Business Administration honored alumnus Larry Boord with an Outstanding Service Award on Saturday, Oct. 4.

The award, given annually at Homecoming, honors individuals who have provided sustained and outstanding service to, and whose contributions have positively impacted, the Dicke College of Business Administration and Ohio Northern. This is the sixth year that Outstanding Service Awards has been presented by the College.

Ohio Northern University’s Dicke College of Business Administration presents Outstanding Service Award

ADA — Ohio Northern University’s James F. Dicke College of Business Administration honored alumnus Larry Boord with an Outstanding Service Award on Saturday, Oct. 4.

The award, given annually at Homecoming, honors individuals who have provided sustained and outstanding service to, and whose contributions have positively impacted, the Dicke College of Business Administration and Ohio Northern. This is the sixth year that Outstanding Service Awards has been presented by the College.

ONU Symphony Orchestra opens season with performance of "Nature"

ADA — Ohio Northern University’s Freed Center for the Performing Arts presents the Ohio Northern University Symphony Orchestra with a performance of “Nature” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18.

Works include “Die Moldau” by Bedřich Smetana, “Rusty Air in Carolina” for orchestra and electronica by living composer Mason Bates, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 (“Pastorale”). The electronica part for “Rusty Air in Carolina” will be played on a laptop by Sarah Waters, associate professor of music and percussion instructor at ONU. The electronica part will include unique sounds that are rarely heard in conjunction with an orchestra.

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