The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Community Facilities Program has awarded Ohio Northern University a $67.2 million loan to support a variety of campus initiatives, including funds to help construct a new 105,000-square-foot College of Engineering building.
Other programs will benefit as well, including the departments of Technological Studies and Psychology, Sociology and Criminal Justice, which will occupy the vacated space in the Biggs Engineering Building.
ONU's homecoming weekend is Sept. 22-24. Here's the weekend schedule:
The main registration area will be open on Saturday, Sept. 23, in the King Horn Field House from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Bracelets for meals, the inflatable activities and the football game are available for purchase or pickup at registration. A completed schedule and details are below.
Friday, Sept. 22
10 a.m.-2 p.m. Falls Prevention Awareness Day Walk – Tundra – Contact: Michael Rush, [email protected].
The Law College recently dedicated the Judge Allan H. Davis Lecture Hall. Davis, a 1968 law graduate, recently retired from the Hancock County Court of Common Pleas, where he served 40 years as a probate and juvenile court judge.
His gift funded a complete renovation of Room 125, one of three original lecture halls in the building.
Story and photos by Monty Siekerman
Thirty-three new international students from 26 countries and 77 new Dimension Award Scholars were invited to a meet-and-greet reception at the Business College on Wednesday evening.
Several administrators welcomed the new students saying that ONU is a safe place and diversity is encouraged on campus. Several student organizations had tables set up with information about their group and had representatives in attendance to further explain their organization's opportunities and goals.
"This book is perfect for the pure-mathematics-minded educator in a small undergraduate college as well as graduate students and advanced undergraduate students looking for a significant high-impact learning experience in mathematics.”
A research monograph written by Mihai Caragiu, Ph.D., professor of mathematics and chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Ohio Northern University, was recently released.
“Sequential Experiment with Primes” (Springer Nature, 2017) is designed for fellow educators and advanced mathematics students.
Fittingly, it reflects Caragiu’s work with ONU students.
“It is an extension of my research done at ONU that also involved our undergraduates,” he explained.
The Ohio Northern University Mobile Health Clinic will offer health screenings free of charge at the Forest, food pantry from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Monday, Aug. 28, at the Forest United Methodist Church, 111 E. Dixon St., Forest.
The 38-foot bus is in its first season of operation by the College of Pharmacy’s ONU HealthWise outreach efforts.
ONU HealthWise has provided health outreach services in Hardin County since 2015, when the College of Pharmacy received a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) grant. Thanks to recent support from CVS and Mercy Health in Lima, the mobile clinic has an official set of wheels.
