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Multicultural holiday party highlight's Ada's international community

Posted by Fred Steiner on Saturday, December 12, 2015

Story and photos by Monty Siekerman
ONU students enjoy conversation at a multicultural holiday party on campus on Tuesday evening.

More photos below

From left are Tetsuharu Hashimoto from Japan, Oyum Baldan from Mongolia, and Chiyuki Oh from Japan.

We asked Oyum how it came to be that she enrolled at Ohio Northern. She said the local campus was the first to reply to her admissions questions, the college offered what she wanted to study, thus she is here.

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He's Ada's new street superintendent

Posted by Fred Steiner on Saturday, December 12, 2015

Meet the new street superintendent for the Village of Ada.

He's Rob Mix, 39, who did similar work for the Village of Forest. He and his wife Kristi are the parents of Trysten, 14, and Kami, 12.

Rob is the man in charge of street and sewer maintenance and repair, leaf collection, snow removal, fixing equipment, and much more. (Monty Siekerman)

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Do you know where this is in Ada?

Posted by Fred Steiner on Saturday, December 12, 2015

By Monty Siekerman
In the Ada Icon's continuing series of unusual sights in town, we offer this photo. Know what it is and where it is located?

It's a robot outside the front entrance to Taft Memorial where Technological Studies is taught. It is a sculpture, of sorts.

The robot, in place there for the past four years, is "frozen" so the parts no longer move...thus it has not walked away in that length of time.

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Student receives research grant from Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology

Posted by Anne Pannabecke... on Friday, December 11, 2015

Ohio Northern University student Eric Eisenmann, a fifth-year pharmacy and recent 2015 ONU graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology from Broadview Heights, Ohio, was selected to receive a 2015-16 fall graduate research grant from Psi Chi, the international honor society in psychology, for $1,500.

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Society for Collegiate Journalists receives Outstanding New Chapter Award

Posted by Anne Pannabecke... on Friday, December 11, 2015

The Ohio Northern University chapter of the Society for Collegiate Journalists (SJC) has received the Outstanding New Chapter Award from the National Office of SCJ. In order to be considered for this award, a chapter must be reactivated or chartered for two to six years and be recognized as a new and energetic member of the SCJ family.

“I am very moved that the Society chose us for this honor,” said Shane Tilton, chapter advisor and assistant professor of multimedia journalism.

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Look what Ada HS grad Matt Meyers is working on - virtual reality

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, December 11, 2015

Virtual reality is a valuable tool for simulating environments as NASA astronauts prepare for space missions. They also train underwater to get a feel for what it’s like to be in space.
Two Embry-Riddle students are looking to merge those worlds.

One of the students is Matt Meyers, a 2011 Ada High School graduate.

Human Factors students Nathan Sonnenfeld and Meyers have used a 3-D printer in the Game-based Education & Advanced Research Simulations (GEARS) Lab to make a plastic headset that uses wireless technology to create virtual environments, similar to Oculus Rift goggles.

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