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Two ONU professors will speak on their NIH research pertaining to post-traumatic stress disorder and its effects on the heart and memory formation.

Boyd Rorabaugh, professor of pharmacology and cell biology, and Phillip Zoladz, associate professor of psychology, will speak at Ada Chats, which is a series of talks sponsored by the Ada Public Library and Heterick Library.

The presentations by the professors will take place at Heterick at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 19. The program is free and open to the public.

A future engineer? Dr. Bryan Boulanger, chair of environmental engineering, with daughter Eala, 2, at the groundbreaking of the new ONU engineering building.

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Bruce Burton (left), retired dean of engineering who came to ONU in 1958, chats with Kevin Freese of Cleveland, an ONU graduate who is chairman and CEO of Groovy Candies. Freese serves as Campaign for Engineering co-chair, helping to raise millions of dollars for the new building and its furnishings.

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300 gather for $30 million engineering building groundbreaking

Story and photos by Monty Siekerman
Today (Friday) was a momentous day in the history of Ohio Northern when about 300 people gathered for a groundbreaking  ceremony at the site which will become a $30 million College of Engineering building located just east of pharmacy.

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The ONU Wind Orchestra will perform at 7 p.m. on  Sunday, Oct. 22 in the Freed Center..

Thomas Hunt, professor of music, will conduct this opening concert. The first half of the program will feature “Vision Fanfare” by American composer Eric Knechtges, “Musica Boema” by Czech composer Zdenek Lukas, “Overture for Band” by German composer Felix Mendelssohn, “October” by American composer Eric Whitacre, and “March of the Belgian Parachutists” by Belgian composer Pierre Leemans.

The second half of the program will feature “Pictures at an Exhibition” by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky.

Members of "Polaris," ONU's literary magazine, learned about moveable type printing presses and assembled letters to each spell out a favorite quote. Prof. Melissa Eddings-Mancuso showed the students different types of prints: regular, ghost, reverse, and shadow. Today's printed material is all prepared with the help of computers, whether actually printed on paper or presented to readers online, like the Ada Icon.

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