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Ohio Northern University among best in Ohio bar passage rate

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, May 6, 2013

 

One hundred percent of Ohio Northern University’s December law graduates passed Ohio’s February 2013 bar examination on their first attempt, and 82 percent of all ONU law graduates passed. ONU’s Pettit College of Law ranks second among Ohio law schools in overall passage rate and first in the passage rate of first-time takers.

The 100 percent passage rate by ONU law students ranked first, along with the University of Cincinnati, among Ohio schools for the first-time test takers for the month of February. ONU’s perfect passage rate by first-time bar exam participants ranks 20 percent higher than the state average of 80 percent for first-time takers.

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ONU’s micromouse team takes third at regional conference

Posted by Reema Bazzy on Thursday, May 2, 2013

Ohio Northern Engineering micromouse team captured third place at the Region 2 IEEE-Student Activities Conference hosted by University of West Virginia in Morgantown on April 20. Region 2 covers Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, southern New Jersey, Ohio (except Toledo), Pennsylvania, northern Virginia, and West Virginia.

In a micromouse robotics competition, teams construct an autonomous robotic “mouse” that navigates to the center of a random maze from a specified corner in the shortest amount of time possible.

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Ohio Northern University students honored with Dankook Award

Posted by Reema Bazzy on Thursday, May 2, 2013

Ohio Northern University presented Dankook Awards to Jennifer Krauss, a senior mathematics major from Pickerington, Ohio, and Sean McKee, a sixth-year pharmacy major from Salem, Ohio, at ONU’s Honors Day on April 27.

Presented since 1974, the Dankook Award is an annual reciprocal award exchanged between Dankook University in South Korea and Ohio Northern University. The award recognizes students with outstanding records in academics, student leadership, co-curricular activities and service.

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ONU’s Baja SAE team takes second place at national competition

Posted by Reema Bazzy on Tuesday, April 30, 2013

The Ohio Northern University Baja SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) team finished second overall at the Tennessee Tech Baja SAE Collegiate Design Series held April 18-21 at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville, Tenn.

The event featured approximately 100 colleges and university teams and was sponsored by Tennessee Tech.

In addition to its second-place finish, the ONU team garnered third place in the four-hour endurance race, sixth place in the suspension and traction category, ninth place in maneuverability, seventh place in acceleration, and seventh place in cost report.

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ONU grad and now U.S. Congressman, Tom Reed, College of Law commencement speaker

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, April 29, 2013

Ohio Northern University’s Pettit College of Law has announced that U.S. Congressman Tom Reed of New York will be the guest speaker at its commencement ceremony in the ONU Sports Center on Sunday, May 19, at 2 p.m.

Reed, a 1996 graduate of the ONU Pettit College of Law, was first elected to represent the 29th District of New York in a special election held Nov. 2, 2010. He took office during the “lame duck” session of the 111th Congress and began his own full two-year term in the 112th Congress on Jan. 5, 2011.

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ONU pharmacy alumni recognized at OPA conference

Posted by Reema Bazzy on Sunday, April 28, 2013

Alumni from Ohio Northern University’s Raabe College of Pharmacy received two awards and several appointments during the 135th Ohio Pharmacists Association (OPA) Annual Conference and Trade Show in Columbus, Ohio, from April 12-14.

Paul White, a 1966 ONU graduate, received the 2013 Pharmacist Public Relations Award, which is presented annually to honor a pharmacist for continuous service to the community in educating the public on pharmacy-related issues and safe medicine use. White is the owner of the Medicine Center Pharmacies in the Canton, Ohio, area.

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