Lee and Shirley Stockton of Troy, Ohio, have made a major gift to the proposed engineering college building. Thus far, $12.3 million of the $15 million goal has been raised or pledged by donors.
The 105,000-square-foot facility will be nearly twice the size of the current Biggs Engineering Building and will feature space for collaboration, class projects and community-building,
Michael Prescott, president of U.S. Bank’s Cincinnati market, will deliver the Lovett Distinguished Lecture at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 28 in the business college. The title of his talk is “What I didn’t learn from textbooks. The talk is free and open to the public.
Prescott, who earned a bachelor’s degree with high distinction in accounting from Ohio Northern in 1984, is responsible for the bank’s activities and commercial-lending efforts in the Cincinnati region. He also has market responsibility for Florida; North Carolina; Nashville, Tenn.; Louisville, Ky.; and Saint Louis, Mo. He holds the MBA from Ohio State.
During Women's History Month the ONU Department of Art and Design features its outstanding graduates on its Facebook. This is one of those features.
Laura Barnhardt Corle (BFA ’77) is one of the first Ohio Northern students to graduate with a BFA degree. Forty years later, she continues to make a living as a professional artist.
A variety of experts will share their insights on the topical theme of “Defining Immigration Law in a time of Terror” during the 40th annual ONU Law Review Symposium on Friday, March 24 in the College of Law.
9:15 a.m. -10 a.m. Amanda Frost, “Unmaking unauthorized immigrants.” Frost is professor of law at the American University Washington College of Law. She writes and teaches in the fields of constitutional law, federal courts and jurisdiction, immigration law and judicial ethics.
Story reprinted in part,
from The Northern Review.
By Nathan Grizenko
William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan’s whimsical and comedic operetta, “The Pirates of Penzance,” will return to the Freed Center for the Performing Arts April 6-9 since its last showing in 1993.
Kirsten Osbun Manley, the program director of the Ohio Northern University’s musical theater program, is directing the show with the intention of exposing her students to a new style of music to challenge them vocally.
Manely decided to do an operetta since one has not been performed since the 1999 performance of “H.M.S. Pinafore.”
The ONU Gospel Ensemble has proved that diversity and inclusion are themes that stand the test of time. The singing group, which was founded in fall 1987, will perform its 30-year anniversary concert at 4 p.m. on Sunday, April 2 in the McIntosh Center ballroom. The event is free and open to the public.
"The concert is intended to be a celebration of the values that make the Gospel Ensemble such a special group,” said Adriane Thompson-Bradshaw, Ph.D., the group’s founder and leader as well as vice president for student affairs at ONU.
