Ohio Northern University student Zachary Dunn, a senior ACS chemistry and applied physics double major with an astronomy minor and an education concentration, has been selected as a Goldwater Scholar by the trustees of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. This marks the eighth consecutive year that Ohio Northern students have received this honor, the premier undergraduate award of its type in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.
The Ohio Northern University Department of Music will present Bob Becker in Presser Hall on Tuesday, April 3, at 8 p.m.
A master of African percussion tradition, Becker is a disciple of Pandit Sharda Sahai, one of the most respected musicians of the Benares tabla style. Becker is considered to be one of the world’s prodigy performers on the xylophone and marimba. This talent led him to create the Bob Becker Concert Xylophone line of mallets.
Ohio Northern University’s Smull College of Engineering will host the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) North Central Regional Conference, in which regional universities face off in a variety of competitions, including concrete canoe and steel bridge building competitions, from March 30-April 1.
Ohio Northern University’s Freed Center for the Performing Arts will present three student-directed one-act plays in the Stambaugh Studio Theatre from March 29 to 31 at 7:30 p.m. and March 31 and April 1 at 2 p.m.
The event kicks off with a shortened version of Charles Mee’s “Hotel Cassiopeia,” directed by Morgan Greene, a sophomore theatre arts/theatre major from Garfield Heights, Ohio. “Hotel Cassiopeia” follows American collage artist Joseph Cornell, whose life and style of art inspire the theme of the play. Using Cornell’s diaries, letters, and taste in music and movies, Mee based the characters in the play on people Cornell knew, observed or dreamed about.
