Ohio Northern University

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Internationally acclaimed pianist Brian Woods will offer a free, public performance at Ohio Northern University at 8:00 p.m.on Monday, Jan. 22, 2024,  in Presser Hall’s Snyder Recital Hall. He will also host a free “Professionalism in Music” seminar for the campus community and the public in Snyder Recital Hall at 1:00 p.m. that day.

The pianist's 2023-2024 season includes concert tours across the United States, ranging from the L'ermitage Foundation in Los Angeles, California, to the Steinway Society of Western Pennsylvania. Woods also serves as music director for classical programming at the World Chess Hall of Fame, one of Missouri’s premier venues for chamber music.

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Publications by Dowland, Hartman, Person, Pullen, Sen and Strittmatter

Six Ohio Northern University Getty College of Arts and Sciences faculty are celebrating recently published and soon-to-be published critical and creative works on topics ranging from ethics to England.

Douglas Dowland, Ph.D., associate professor of English
We, Us, and Them: Affect and American Nonfiction from Vietnam to Trump
Publication date: March 2024, University of Virginia Press

Dowland’s book explores how some authors answer the question "What is America?" in a way that creates an America of "us" versus "them." From John Steinbeck’s hawkish enthusiasm for the Vietnam War to David Sedaris’s wry perspective on the rise of Donald Trump to the presidency, the book uncovers the worrisome emotions that underpin narratives of American strength.

“What I would like readers to walk away with is the idea that the strength of our convictions too often proves to be our greatest weakness,” Dowland said.

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Work benefits local Artists Against Hunger campaign

Ohio Northern University graphic design senior Elizabeth “Lizzy” Dingman’s compelling work for a local organization that combats child hunger earned her an American Graphic Design Award from Graphic Design USA.

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Six accomplished alumni were inducted into Ohio Northern University’s 2023 Athletic Hall of Fame during a ceremony and banquet held Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. Inductees included Katie (Weininger) Kuhn, BA ’09; Jackie (Mangola) Price, BS ’12; Stu Levine, BS ’65; Kimi Blewett, BS ’12; J.R. Cipra, BS ’01; and Luke Miller, B.S. ’11.

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Feature from www.ONU.edu/news/

A lesser-known fact: tucked away in the picturesque Eastern Ohio hills is an Ohio Northern University-owned locale that provides uncommon residential education opportunities. Totaling 78 acres with two facilities for extended living while learning, Metzger Nature Center is unlike any other college experience.

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If you lose touch with your college fraternity brothers after graduation, do you: a) do nothing; b) try to reconnect with them via social media or a phone call after life slows down, or c) surprise them by showing up at their house unannounced 35 years later?

If “c” sounds like the craziest choice, meet three late ’80s Sigma Phi Epsilon brothers from Ohio Northern University.

By all accounts, Dan Meek, BSME ’88, Brian Newberg, BA ’89, and Brian Keckler, BSEE ’89, are decent individuals and reputable professionals—a venture capitalist, an attorney, and a quality manager, respectively.

When the three get together? Surprisingly (or perhaps unsurprisingly), the ONU fraternity brothers transform into jokesters and co-conspirators, reminiscent of their college-aged selves.

During one such gathering of the minds, on a golf course during a global pandemic, the three concocted their most harebrained scheme to date: “The Lost Brothers Project.”

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