Ohio Northern University

By Monty Siekerman
One hundred music campers arrived on the ONU campus Sunday and will conclude their week of study and practice with concerts on Thursday and Friday in the Freed Center.

Ensemble concerts are set for 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. The next evening the full choir, band, and orchestras perform at 8 p.m. The public is invited.

The camp, for students in grades 7-12, draws aspiring musicians from several states and Germany.

A full day of activity begins with breakfast at 7:15 a.m. and concludes with lights out at 10 p.m.

Three Ohio Northern University engineering students have been selected to present at the 123rd American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition in New Orleans from June 26-29.

Alexandra Seda, a senior electrical engineering major from Columbiana, Ala., Nathan Craft, a senior civil engineering major from West Alexandria, Ohio, and Adam Berry, a junior mechanical engineering major from Brunswick, Ohio, will present on their Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E) Landscape.

Ohio Northern University student Alexandra Seda, a senior electrical engineering major from Columbiana, Ala., has been invited to co-facilitate at the White House-sponsored sixth Global Entrepreneurship Summit at Stanford University from June 22-24.

The Ohio Northern University Raabe College of Pharmacy chapter of the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) received the Dennis Ludwig Memorial Scholarship in Government Affairs for having the highest student attendance at the annual Congressional Pharmacy Summit in Washington, D.C. The award, given to help alleviate travel costs, was presented on Tuesday, May 24, 2016.

This year, ONU brought 15 students to the conference, which is a platform for hundreds of community pharmacists to visit the nation’s capital to advocate for community pharmacies and their patients. ONU tied with Auburn University for this year’s honor.

Ohio Northern University’s Beta Alpha Psi “Best Practices” team finished second in a competition held as part of the Beta Alpha Psi 2016 Midwest Regional Meeting in Covington, Ky., from April 1-2.

Two pairs of students and faculty from the Ohio Northern University Raabe College of Pharmacy have been named recipients of the 2016 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Walmart Scholars Program.

Each student-faculty pair will receive a $1,000 scholarship to attend the AACP Annual Meeting and the AACP Teachers Seminar in Anaheim, Calif., from July 23-27, 2016.

Dr. Brittany Long, ONU HealthWise resident, and her faculty mentor, Deirdre Myers, pharmacy practice instructor and assistant director of student services at Ohio Northern, received the first award. Long and Myers are both Ohio Northern pharmacy graduates.

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