Dr. Stephen G. Hoag, 73, who served as pharmacy dean here from 1987-1993, died Oct. 16 in Duluth, Minn.
He was instrumental in expanding the clinical experiences in the region and in setting the stage for the PharmD degree at ONU. Under his watch, ONU became the first college in Ohio to offer the PharmD degree.
A celebration of life will be held Saturday in Duluth.
He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Jill, two sons, two grandchildren, two brothers, and a sister.
Community service is an important component of the ONU College of Pharmacy experience. During the 2016-17 academic year, the college’s 14 student organizations implemented 198 events, with 71 percent of those in the Hardin County community. These included 648 hours of service and reached 8,542 patients. Pharmacy students performed 2,090 health screenings, which resulted in 302 referrals for further treatment.
The Ohio Northern University Marching Band will present a concert featuring its music from the 2017 season at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 29 in the Freed Center.
Admission is $20 for adults, $15 or faculty and staff members, and $5 for students and children. Tickets are available at the Freed Center box office between noon and 5 p.m. on Friday, online at www.FreedCenter.com, or by calling 419-772-1900. Tickets also are also available prior to the performance.
Local residents are invited to join ONU students in a Zombie Chase on campus at 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 27. It costs $5 to participate in the walk/run from The Pavilion to Affinity Commons, about a mile. Along the way, the walkers/runners will be scared by zombies.
The event is sponsored by Phi Mu Delta and the Association of Future Forensics. Those 13 and older may participate. Those under 18 years of age need a waiver, which is available at the event, signed by a parent. T-shirts will be sold for $12.
The Pavilion is located in a shelter just west of Fraternity Circle.
Brit Rowe, associate professor in art & design at Ohio Northern University, will be in Hawaii in January.
He was selected to present at the International Conference on Arts & Humanities organized by the University of Hawaii. The conference is Jan. 9–12, in Honolulu.
The conference’s main goal is to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various arts and humanities related fields from all over the world to come together with cross-disciplinary interests to meet, interact, and learn with members inside and outside their own particular disciplines.
Award-winning science writer and journalist David Quammen will deliver a talk at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 23 in the Freed Center. He will discuss“Ebola to Zika and Beyond: Scary Viruses in a Globalized World.”
The talk, which is part of the Keiser Distinguished Lecture Series in Life Sciences at ONU, is free and open to the public.
Quammen is a science journalist, nonfiction author and (former) novelist who has spent most of his life in Montana. He travels on assignment for various magazines, usually to jungles, deserts or swamps.
