Ohio Northern University Raabe College of Pharmacy was represented at a July 20, 2023 congressional panel considering federal legislation that, if approved, would impact pharmacists and patients. Michael Rush, PharmD ’05, provided input in support of HR 1770, the Equitable Community Access to Pharmacists Services Act. Impressed by the College’s burgeoning rural health care leadership within its own region, the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) asked Rush to speak at the briefing for the bipartisan Congressional Rural Caucus and Congressional Rural Health Caucus.
A third Fulbright Scholar opportunity for Ohio Northern University Professor Jonathan (Beau) Pitts, Ph.D., will soon send him to Japan, where he intends to explore the intersection of personal narrative, ordinary life as art, human longevity and pilgrimage. Cultural immersion, classroom instruction, writing and walking–lots and lots of walking–are in store for Pitts, an associate professor of English.
Director Kim Manning and Nurse Practitioner Margaret Schimmoeller will continue in their current roles
Ohio Northern University and Mercy Health have announced a new strategic partnership to improve access to high quality health care on ONU’s campus. Under a new 10-year agreement, ONU’s Student Health Center will be staffed and managed by Mercy Health.
Ohio Northern junior Grace Honigford (West Chester/Lakota East) and seniors Isabella Orofino (Powell/Olentangy Liberty) and Jessica Tubbs (Maumee/Springfield) were named All-American Scholars for the 2022-23 season by the Women's Golf Coaches Association.
Honigford, Orofino and Tubbs were among 1,401 women's collegiate golfers from 378 programs across the country recognized with this prestigious honor.
The criteria for selection to the All-American Scholar Team are some of the most stringent in all of college athletics and include having an overall cumulative grade point average of 3.50 or higher, being an amateur and on the team's roster through the conclusion of the team's season, and playing in 50% of the college's regularly scheduled competitive rounds during the year through the team's conference championship.
Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” a natural gas and oil extraction method that has been used throughout the country for more than a decade, is episodically reducing small Eastern Ohio River basin stream levels, an Ohio Northern University study found. The fluctuations, the authors warn, could be negatively impacting aquatic life in those areas – a situation that, if confirmed by more studies and monitoring, would warrant additional environmental protection measures.
Creating tools to assist those who are differently abled was the focus of Ohio Northern University’s engineering design capstone completed this semester by 169 first-year students enrolled in most of the T.J. Smull College of Engineering disciplines. A total of 34 teams designed projects that ranged from mobility assistance devices to educational games to trainers for skills like handwriting.
