Design and strategy will intersect with competitive intensity on a decidedly nontraditional gridiron as Ohio Northern University hosts the day-long National Robotic Football Tournament and Combine on Saturday, April 1. The event is free and open to the public.
Ohio Northern University’s School of Visual and Performing Arts will shine a light on diversity within our own borders by highlighting Arab American theatre during the 15th International Play Festival. The festival will present a reading and conversation about Denmo Ibrahim's new play, Kal and Dija Save the World. The reading represents the culmination of a workshop exploration of this new, ensemble-based play that examines third-culture kids, Middle Eastern identity and what it means to be an American.
Ohio Northern University civil and environmental engineering professor Bryan Boulanger's childhood fascination with the night sky during family camping trips out west led to crucial work years later in service to night sky preservation. Those efforts have resulted in his receiving the International Dark-Sky Association's 2022 Nocturnal Habitat Protection Award.
The Northern Winds will perform a Spring Band Concert:
Sat., March 25 | 7:30 p.m.
Freed Center for the Performing Arts
Comprised of instrumentalists representing numerous academic programs across campus, Northern Winds will perform traditional selections including marches, fanfares, world music and the spiritual Deep River featuring guest vocalist Dr. Adriane Thompson-Bradshaw; along with more contemporary compositions such as Scott Boerma's Zoom.
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The ONU English Reading Series will welcome poet and professor Kristin LaFollette to campus for its spring presentation at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 4.
She will read alongside creative writing student Dakari Ward in the Elzay Gallery of Art, 503 S Gilbert St. The reading will be followed by a Q & A and book signing.
This event is co-sponsored with the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. Free and open to the public, this reading is supported with a generous gift from Phil Oleson, BSPh '66, and Mary (Montswil) Oleson, BSPh '70.
LaFollette is a writer, artist, and scholar from the Midwest. She is the author of Hematology. winner of the 2021 Harbor Editions Laureate Prize, and Body Parts, winner of the 2017 GFT Press Chapbook Prize.
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the passage of Title IX, Ohio Northern University has shared the stories of some iconic female athletes who competed as Polar Bears in winter and spring sports.
Track and field star developed mental toughness
Jackie Dight, BA ’03, still holds several ONU school records in track and field. She is number one in the indoor 300m dash and outdoor 400m hurdle. And she holds the top position in the outdoor 100m hurdle tied with two other ONU athletes.
