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ONU vaccine clinics are back!

Swiching to Moderna and working to acquire Pfizer
Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Ohio Northern University has been able to acquire two-dose Moderna vaccines for its upcoming state-sponsored COVID-19 mobile mass vaccination clinics.

 Clinics scheduled for Wednesday, April 14, in Marion and Union counties respectively have been cancelled. Clinics scheduled at the Crawford County Fairgrounds in Bucyrus on Thursday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and at Ohio Northern University on Friday from 2-6:30 p.m. will still be offered.

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ONU student named 2021 Goldwater Scholar

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Ohio Northern University junior Bret Lane, a mechanical engineering student with a minor in applied mathematics, has been selected as a 2021 Goldwater Scholar.

Lane, of Frankfort, Ohio, is one of 410 college students across the United States selected by the federally endowed Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation to receive this premier undergraduate award that honors outstanding academic work in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering. 

This year’s awardees were selected through a partnership with the Department of Defense and the National Defense Education Programs (NDEP).

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ONU anticipates fall 2021 in-person operations

It will do so by relying on public health guidance and working with state and local officials to pursue learning, living and working on campus as close to, if not at, pre-pandemic levels
Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, April 11, 2021

Ohio Northern University announced that it intends to return to a full on-campus experience this fall.

It will do so by relying on public health guidance and working with state and local officials to pursue learning, living and working on campus as close to, if not at, pre-pandemic levels. 

“The University is committed to providing our students with an optimal educational environment and looks forward to returning to a traditional semester calendar as well as continuing in-person learning, on-campus living and campus events and activities. Our priorities are to keep students, faculty and staff safe and learning at the highest level,” President Daniel DiBiasio explains.

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ONU awarded $2.6 million

From State of Ohio and ODE for STEM student support
Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, April 9, 2021

Ohio Northern University announced it has received a total of $2.6 million from two Choose Ohio First (COF) grants for STEM student recruitment and retention.

The funding from the State of Ohio and Ohio Department of Education will assist students studying science (including health professions), technology, engineering and mathematics.

The funding is intended to address the skilled labor shortages STEM professions are increasingly experiencing.

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6 counties in 60 days

ONU HealthWise Mobile Clinic designated as state-sponsored mass vaccination site to serve rural population
Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, March 29, 2021

Six counties in 60 days.

That’s the scope of Ohio Northern University’s state-sponsored COVID-19 vaccine outreach to rural areas of Northwest Ohio.

HealthWise Mobile Clinic, ONU’s 38-foot RV operated by the Raabe College of Pharmacy, is scheduled to hit the road starting Wednesday, March 31.

Governor Mike DeWine recently designated HealthWise Mobile Clinic as a mass-vaccination site for serving those who don’t have easy access to larger metropolitan areas where vaccines are more readily available.

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ONU students get wet

Environmental and field biology students help restore Blue Heron Reserve Wetland
Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, March 24, 2021

FROM ONU WEBSITE - Visit Blue Heron Reserve near Vickery, Ohio, along the Sandusky Bay, and you’ll rapidly realize how dependent plants, animals and humans are to this varied but vulnerable habitat.

On a warm spring day, you may be lucky enough to see an endangered Kirtland warbler, with its striking chartreuse belly, enjoying a stopover on its way from the Bahamas to central Michigan.

If wild lupine emerge, you could encounter another endangered species: the Karner blue butterfly, which, as a caterpillar, only feasts on the leaves of this beautiful plant.

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