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Canoe smashing

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Saturday, October 27, 2018

ONU engineering students smash a canoe at halftime of the Honecoming football game on Saturday. The engineering students compete in a cement canoe competition each spring. Since they have to build a new one each year, what do you do with the old one? Obliterate at Homecoming.

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ONU band to perform Sunday

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Wednesday, October 24, 2018

The Ohio Northern University Marching Band will celebrate the 2018 season during its annual “Band-O-Rama” concert at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 28 in the Freed Center.

The band will perform selections from its program, “9-0,” which features music associated with the 1990s. Concertgoers will hear Anton Dvorak’s “New World Symphony,” a European classical hit influenced by American music. The group will also perform Nirvana’s megahit “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and “I Want it That Way” by the Backstreet Boys. 

Field Commander Adam Grim leads the band in a special performance of his arrangement of the hit “Creep” by Radiohead.

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Choral concert set for Friday

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Wednesday, October 24, 2018

The Ohio Northern University choirs will present their traditional Homecoming weekend concert at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 26 in Presser Hall. The “Choral Collage” will feature the women’s chorus, University Singers and Chamber Singers performing pieces by Mendelssohn, Brahms, Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo and American composer Jake Runestad, and will conclude with the traditional singing of the ONU Hymn. The concert is free and open to the public.

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Mobile Clinic director receives national award

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Ohio Northern University faculty member Amy Fanous received the 2018 Civic Leader Award during the recent Next-Generation Pharmacists ceremony in Boston, Mass. Fanous, who earned her PharmD from ONU in 2012, is director of the Ohio Northern University HealthWise Mobile Clinic.

 

The Civic Leader Award is presented to a pharmacist who donates his or her time and resources with the principal objective of improving the community in which he or she resides and/or the pharmacy operates, and whose vision is related to pharmacy care and the health outcomes of the community.

 

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The U.N. comes to Ohio Northern

Nearly 100 high school students participate in Model UN
Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, October 22, 2018

Nearly 100 high school students from as far away as Indianapolis and Cincinnati participated in a Model UN on the ONU campus on Saturday.

Before arriving in Ada, the students were given a country to represent and studied that nation, especially its politics. Then, on campus, the students voted in a mock General Assembly how they thought the country they represented would vote.

The difficult issues discussed were:
• Eradication of chemical and nuclear weapons;
• Managing the effects of natural disasters and climate change;
• Refugee crisis and protection of human rights.

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Wolf biologist to speak

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Douglas Smith, Ph.D., will discuss “Yellowstone wolves: Restoring wildness to the world’s first national park” at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 23 in the Freed Center. The talk, which is part of the Keiser Distinguished Lecture Series in Life Sciences at ONU, is free and open to the public.

 

Smith is a senior wildlife biologist in Yellowstone National Park. He is regarded as one of the world’s top experts in wolf biology. A leader in issues involving wildlife conservation and restoration, Smith has studied wolf restoration, recovery and management for more than 20 years. 

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