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ONU Campus Ministry to establish new spiritual formation program

Posted by Reema Bazzy on Tuesday, September 10, 2013

The Ohio Northern University Campus Ministry is establishing “Emerge,” a new spiritual formation program, after receiving a grant from the West Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church.

David MacDonald, ONU chaplain, will oversee the new program, which will focus on incoming students, helping them make the transition from high school to college while also seeking to help them grow and mature in their faith.

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ONU receives grant for after-school enrichment program

Posted by Fred Steiner on Saturday, September 7, 2013

 

Ohio Northern University has received a grant from the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) to develop an after-school enrichment program to improve the delivery of the plant biology and botany curriculum to seventh- and eighth-grade students in the Marysville Exempted School District.

The project, titled “Planting Seeds of Science: Roots, leaves and STEM in the after-school and summer enrichment program,” is under the direction of Linda Young, ONU professor of biological sciences, and Vicki Motz, visiting assistant professor of biological sciences and Union County Master Gardener.

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Ohio Northern University receives grant to build mobile solar energy lab

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, September 6, 2013

 

The Ohio Northern University T.J. Smull College of Engineering has been awarded a Dominion Higher Education Partnership grant to develop and implement a mobile solar energy lab. Dominion Foundation is the charitable arm of Dominion Resources, Dominion East Ohio’s parent company.

Engineering students will design an experimental apparatus to demonstrate the operation of solar thermal and photovoltaic systems.  The finished product will be used in undergraduate engineering courses on thermodynamics and renewable energy as well as for high-school STEM outreach programs such as Camp GEMS and Explorers Post.

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Northern mathematics professors recognized

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, September 3, 2013

 

Two Ohio Northern University professors of mathematics, Khristo Boyadzhiev and Mihai Caragiu, have been named to a list of the Top 25 STEM college professors in Ohio by StateStats.org, in conjunction with partner website OnlineSchoolsOhio.com.

The two sites set out to find post-secondary educators who had been recognized recently for excellence in the classroom, on campus and in the community. Statestats.org is a nonprofit organization that builds free, open-source tools with the goal of increasing accessibility to education and information through the use of new technologies.

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Ohio Northern University to present ‘Dancing at Lughnasa’

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Ohio Northern University's Freed Center for the Performing Arts will present “Dancing at Lughnasa” from Thursday, Sept. 19, to Saturday, Sept. 21 at 7:30 p.m. In addition, there will be two matinee performances: Saturday, Sept. 21, and Sunday, Sept. 22 at 2 p.m.

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Kenneth Reid awarded IEEE-USA Professional Achievement Award

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, August 29, 2013

Kenneth Reid, Ohio Northern University’s director of engineering education and first-year engineering, and associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been awarded the 2013 IEEE-USA Professional Achievement Award for “pioneering undergraduate engineering education curriculum” for the development of ONU’s Bachelor of Science for engineering education program.

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