Four recent ONU business graduates of will share their career and life stories during a panel discussion, “The First Five Years,” at 2 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 10 in Dicke Hall.
The event, which is free and open to the public, is part of Executive Week, an annual event at ONU during which ONU business students have opportunities to interact with professionals in the field to gain their insights.
Panel discussion participants:
·Rob Roll, a 2013 graduate in accounting and finance, is a tax senior at GBQ Partners.
Ohio Northern University will hold children’s auditions for “The ONU Holiday Spectacular” at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 9 at the Freed Center.
Auditions will be held for singers and dancers ages 5 to 12. Those auditioning may be asked to sing and should be ready to participate in a dance call (jazz and/or tap shoes). No prepared dance or vocal solos, please.
For further information, contact Kirsten Osbun-Manley at [email protected].
The dates for this year’s performance are:
Nov. 15,16 and 17 – Ohio Northern University performances
Nov. 30; Dec 1 and 2 – Lima performances.
Note: You can check out the current progress of the College of Engineering building through the live webcam feed - click here.
Workmen begin attaching flooring to the three-story College of Engineering building under construction on the ONU campus. The steel beams are in place.
The $30 million project is on schedule to open in a year. The building will accommodate twice as many engineering students compared to the current Biggs Engineering building, which opened in 1972. Engineering courses were first offered at ONU in 1881.
Talk about the perks of having great neighbors. When the Polar Bears take to the field on Saturday evening, they will be one of only three schools in the country that get to use the newest Wilson football, the Wilson GST Prime, before its release.
Fionnuala Ni Aolain will discuss “How can states counter terrorism while protecting human rights?” at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 29 at the law school. Her talk, which is part of the law college’s Kormendy Lecture series, is free and open to the public.
Her talk will address the balance between security and human rights in the post-9/11 landscape, and Ni Aolain will emphasize that one concern does not need to be sacrificed for the other, pointing out that security and human rights can co-exist out of mutual necessity.
She teaches law at the University of Minnesota, is chair of the Open Society Foundation, and works with the UN on human rights.
By Monty Siekerman
About 300 ONU incoming students and staff participated in ACE Day by volunteering their labor throughout Ada and surrounding communities for two hours on Saturday morning.
Ada Community Engagement Day occurs annually each fall on weekend before classes begin.
The program is designed to engage incoming students with their college home and provide opportunities for ONU’s first-year students to contribute to the village and surrounding communities.They dig, they paint, they collect items for the Food Pantry, and more.
