The Ohio Northern football coaching staff will offer a special Football 101 for Women program on Saturday, Aug. 26, from 1-2:30 at Dial-Roberson Stadium.
The program, which is also available to men, will include presentations on using the weight room, the rules of football, equipment and football strategy in a classroom setting followed by interactive and on the field drills on Bill Robinson Field.
All participants are encouraged to stick around for ONU's Intra-squad scrimmage immediately following the seminar.
Ohio Northern University will hold children’s auditions for the “Holiday Spectacular” at 1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 25, in the campus’ Freed Center for the Performing Arts.
Dr. Kelly Shields, associate dean at the Ohio Northern University Raabe College of Pharmacy, recently completed the American Association Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Academic Leadership Fellows Program (ALFP). The year-long fellowship began in July 2015, and finished with a commencement ceremony on July 23, 2016, at the AACP Annual Meeting in Anaheim Calif.
Ohio Northern University will put active learning and community involvement into practice with the fifth annual Ada Community Engagement (ACE) Day beginning at 9 a.m. on Aug. 20. The program is designed to engage incoming students with their community and provides opportunities for ONU’s first-year students contribute to the village.
Family members of former Ohio Northern University professor and women’s athletics pioneer Dr. Helen Spar Ludwig have made a $508,000 gift to support the scholarship fund that bears her name.
James “Jim” Ludwig, Helen’s son, passed away in April 2015 and requested that the remaining value from the 2010 sale of his farm in Dola, Ohio, be directed to ONU.
Jim Ludwig’s brother Gary Ludwig, sister Jacqueline Sperling and sister-in-law Charolette Ludwig presented the gift to ONU President Daniel A. DiBiasio in June 2016 after the estate was finalized.
Ohio Northern men's swimming and diving coach Peggy Ewald is adding another international accomplishment to her impressive resume.
She will serve on the coaching staff for Team USA at the 2016 Paralympics Games Sept. 7-18 in Rio de Jeneiro, Brazil.
This marks the third Paralympics Games in which Ewald has represented Team USA, as she was also part of the coaching staff of the 2008 Paralympics Games in Beijing, China, and the 2012 Paralympic Games in London, England.
