With nearly 250 donors and fans in attendance, Ohio Northern University dedicated its new state-of-the-art softball facility – Durbin-Hileman Softball Stadium – on April 27, 2024. The stadium is named in recognition of lead donors and longtime University supporters Melinda (Durbin) Hileman, BA ’87, and David Hileman, BSBA ’86, BSPh ’86.
The Ohio Northern University T.J. Smull College of Engineering recently celebrated the career of Dr. Jed Marquart, BSME ’80, ahead of his upcoming retirement after more than 30 years of service to the university.
A native of Bluffton, Ohio, he has had a lifelong affinity for Northwest Ohio. After graduating from ONU, he worked in the engineering workforce and obtained graduate degrees from the University of Dayton. In 1991, he returned home and spent the next 33 years teaching at his beloved alma mater.
The Freed Center for Performing Arts at Ohio Northern University continues its 2023-24 Season with 9 to 5, The Musical on April 20, 26 and 27 at 7:30 p.m. and April 21 and 27 at 2 p.m. in the Freed Center's Biggs Theatre.
In early April, the second annual GIRLS summit (Girls Increasing Representation Leadership) at Ohio Northern University brought middle school girls from Ada, Kenton and Upper Scioto Valley schools to meet and interact with local women in elected office as well as with women studying political science.
The guests were greeted by young women from the ONU Institute for Civics and Public Policy and Leaders’ Council. Emcee Alison Ringhiser, a sophomore Political Science Major, opened the event by encouraging the participants to “increase representation of women in any and all sectors.”
The event was created in response to research done by Dr. Theresa Schroeder Hageman, Adjunct Instructor of Political Science, on why the United States has a greater gender gap in elected office than other countries.
2024 Keiser Lecture
7:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 17
McIntosh Ballroom at Ohio Northern University
Evolutionary biologists Peter R. Grant, professor of zoology, emeritus, and B. Rosemary Grant, senior research biologist, emeritus, both within the Princeton University’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, will be the featured speakers for the 2024 Terry Keiser Distinguished Lectureship in the Life Sciences. Their presentation, titled “The Nature of the Galapágos,” is free and open to the public.
College also receives high marks for Dispute Resolution
Ohio Northern University’s Pettit College of Law is the No. 1 law school in Ohio for trial advocacy and 31st in the nation in the 2024 U.S. News and World Report rankings. This marks the fourth year in a row that ONU Law has placed in the top 25% in the country for Trial Advocacy.
Law schools were evaluated on a number of criteria, including job placement, bar passage rates, faculty resources, achievements of entering students, and opinions of law schools, lawyers, and judges on overall program quality.
