Ohio Northern University

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Ohio Northern University will celebrate the inauguration of its 12th president, Melissa J. Baumann, Ph.D., during an investiture ceremony to be held at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 12, 2023, in King-Horn Sport Center’s field house. The public is invited to view this private campus event via livestream on the University’s website at www.onu.edu.

A week-long inaugural celebration will also include other events for the campus community, such as a “Women in Leadership Panel,” a chapel address from Bishop Gregory V. Palmer and an Alumni Service Day. April 12 will also include ONU’s Founder’s Day Celebration, an annual day of giving that assists ONU’s students by advancing scholarship, research, the arts, athletics, and more.

The inauguration formalizes President Baumann’s Ohio Northern journey that commenced in July 2022, when she succeeded retiring President Daniel DiBiasio. Since arriving to campus, President Baumann has directed intensive campus-wide endeavors intended to maintain the University’s strong academic offerings while flexibly positioning it for future exceptionalism. ONU’s five-year, student-focused Stronger Together Strategic Plan represents the institution’s “north star” moving forward. A campus master plan is also being developed that will embrace a transformative structural vision to best serve students’ evolving educational and extracurricular needs.

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By Paula Scott

“You never know where your journeys are going to take you”--David Kosmyna

Ada High School graduate and ONU political science and public relations major Carmen Mancuso interviews Dr. David Kosmyna, ONU Professor of Music and Program Lead of Music at Ohio Northern University in a new video available on YouTube.

Between Two Bookshelves Season 2 Episode 7 is a studio interview and casual Q&A session between the student and professor. 

Kosmyna talks about his music background, including quitting piano lessons and an unfulfilled desire to play the accordion. Practical considerations–the fact that his uncle had a trumpet sitting unused in a closet–led to his learning to play the trumpet.

Mancuso inquires about the path that led him to secondary education and to Ada, Ohio. A native of Toledo who is now restoring a home in the historic Old West End, Kosmyna always expected to become a teacher, but had many different interests including art as well as music.

The professor’s story involves a number of unexpected opportunities seized and the influence of Star Wars, libraries and old New Orleans Jazz on his personal and professional pursuits.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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