From www.ONU.edu/news__Ohio Northern University’s James F. Dicke College of Business Administration hosted its semiannual Polar Innovation Exchange on April 16, 2025, in the Dicke Forum. Students pitched innovative business or product ideas in a two-minute format for a chance to win $1,000. The event helps students hone their skills in pitching business ideas concisely, with emphasis on innovation, marketability, and societal impact.
April 22 www.ONU.edu/news__A global business and engineering leader, a Supreme Court Justice from Iceland, and a nationally-renowned family physician, are Ohio Northern University’s spring 2025 commencement speakers.
Justice Benedikt Bogason will be featured at the Pettit College of Law ceremony scheduled for Saturday, May 17 at 10:00 a.m.
Dr. Ada D. Stewart, BSPh ’85, will participate in the Raabe College of Pharmacy ceremony to be held on Sunday, May 18 at 9:00 a.m.
Brenda Reichelderfer, BSEE ’80, will address undergraduate/MSA ceremony guests and graduates on May 18 at 2:00 p.m.
The ceremonies will be held at King Horn Sports Center’s field house. All three commencement speakers will receive honorary doctoral degrees.
Ohio Northern University is celebrating April—and Earth Day—by becoming even greener.
From www.ONU.edu
ONU’s Donald J. Bettinger Department of Chemistry/Biochemistry recently became a Green Chemistry Commitment Signing Institution, a designation awarded by Beyond Benign, a chemistry education organization.
For three weeks this April, Ukrainian theater artist Ganna Turlo is sharing her vision, voice and lived experience with Ohio Northern University students as they prepare for the April 26-27 production of the Worldwide Ukrainian Play Readings project.
For their senior capstone project, Ohio Northern University finance majors participated in a service-learning project aimed at enhancing financial literacy among high school students in Ada, Kenton, and Upper Scioto Valley schools.
The interactive project involved two classroom visits, offering ONU student the opportunity to work directly with the local students.
On April 10-11-12-13, the Freed Center for the Performing Arts at Ohio Northern University will present the musical comedy Hello, Dolly!, which was made famous with a 1964 Broadway production and four subsequent revivals. It is also a 1969 Academy Award winning film starring Barbara Streisand and Walter Matthau.
The Ohio Northern production is double-cast:
YONKERS CAST: April 10 at 7:30 p.m. and April 12, 13 at 2 p.m. with Armani Ponder-Keith, Jessica Sanders, Sara Moore, Pyper Sharkins
NEW YORK CAST: April 11, 12 at 7:30 p.m. with Frankie Alba, Andi Brooke Keller, Belle Fockler, Vivian Lakin
