Ohio Northern University

Ohio Northern University President Daniel A. DiBiasio announced today that Richard Bales, director of the Chase Center for Excellence in Advocacy at Northern Kentucky University Chase College of Law, has been named dean of ONU’s Pettit College of Law. Bales replaces Stephen C. Veltri, who has served as interim dean for the past year, and David C. Crago, who became ONU’s provost and vice president of academic affairs last summer.

Ohio Northern University’s Pettit College of Law will present the 2013 Kormendy Lecture in the Large Moot Court Room on Monday, April 8, at 4 p.m. The program will feature a presentation by Randall T. Shepard, retired chief justice of the Indiana Supreme Court, called “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? The Crisis in American Legal Education.”

This event is open to the public.

Ohio Northern University’s Pettit College of Law will present the 2013 Carhart Symposium on Friday, April 12, at 11 a.m. in the Small Moot Court Room. Titled “Law and Religion in Conflict: Problems for Ethical Lawyering,” the program will feature a presentation by Jon Eddy, professor of law and director of the Asian Law Center at the University of Washington’s School of Law, detailing his work training lawyers in Afghanistan

This event is open to the public.

Ohio Northern University's Freed Center for the Performing Arts will present “Nine” from April 18 to 20 at 7:30 p.m. In addition, there will be matinee shows on Saturday, April 20, and Sunday, April 21, at 2 p.m.

Based on Federico Fellini’s film “8 1/2,” this musical delighted Broadway theatregoers in a hit revival in 2003. “Nine” is the story of a celebrated Italian film director, Guido Contini, who has lost his creative inspiration under the looming deadline for his latest film.

Three members of the Ohio Northern University Raabe College of Pharmacy, along with a member of the Purdue University faculty, have collaborated to author a textbook titled “Pharmacogenetics, Kinetics, and Dynamics for Personalized Medicine.”

Ohio Northern’s David F. Kisor, professor of pharmacokinetics, Jon E. Sprague, dean and professor of pharmacology, Jeffrey N. Talbot, associate professor of pharmacology, and Michael D. Kane, associate professor of bioinformatics and genomics at Purdue, contributed to the textbook, which will be used by pharmacy students and pharmacists.

Ohio Northern University has established the Walmart and Sam’s Club Endowed Leadership Scholarship Fund for the Rudolph H. Raabe College of Pharmacy.

The scholarship will be awarded to academically eligible ONU pharmacy students entering their fourth, fifth or sixth year of pharmacy studies who have demonstrated leadership in pharmacy or to an ONU student organization and have shown interest in community pharmacy.

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