MEDIA RELEASE__The ONU Department of Art & Communication has announced the opening reception of the 2025 United States International Poster Biennial Exhibition, which features about 100 designers and artists from around the world - https://www.usipb.com/edition-2025/
The reception takes place Tuesday, March 24 from 3–5 p.m. at the Elzay Gallery of Art.
Drawn from 11,845 submissions across 93 countries, this global exhibition celebrates the power of posters to inform, provoke, and inspire.
MEDIA RELEASE__Ohio Northern University’s College of Arts & Sciences will welcome back distinguished alumna Dr. Carla Kim, BS ’97, for the 2026 Keiser Distinguished Lectureship in Life Sciences on Tuesday, March 24, at 7:30 p.m. The lecture, which takes place in the Freed Center for the Performing Arts, is free and open to the public.
Kim, a renowned researcher in lung stem cells, is Professor of Pediatrics in the Field of Regenerative Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. Her presentation is titled “Lung Organoids: Windows to Mechanism and Therapy of Lung Disease and Cancer.”
FROM FACEBOOK__Allison Davis, a senior English and music major studying in the studio of Florin Simioanca will perform her senior recital on cello on March 21 at 2 p.m. in Snyder Recital Hall, Ohio Northern University.
MEDIA RELEASE__The Raabe College of Pharmacy at Ohio Northern University is excited to share an innovative collaboration underway in Hardin County and welcomes your input.
One of ONU's Rural Undergraduate Health Scholars Program (RUHSP) student groups is partnering with engineering students to develop a new website dedicated to wellness resources for the community. This initiative supports our local Community Health Improvement Plan and is designed to help address chronic disease in Hardin County by improving access to reliable wellness information.
FROM ONU.EDU/NEWS__Luke Sheets, BFA ’95, traces his passion for ceramics to a class he took at Ohio Northern University 34 years ago.
“It’s almost a cliche among ceramicists, but the moment I started working with the material, I was hooked,” he said.
Sheets, now professor of art and director of ONU’s School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences in the Getty College of Arts & Sciences, started at ONU as an undergraduate engineering major with an art minor. But as he worked through his first-year courses, “I realized that art was where my interest was.”
For nearly half a century, Duane Roby has meticulously tended Ohio Northern University’s beautiful, 342-acre campus. Today, March 6, 2026, the long-time grounds crew foreman is retiring, just one month shy of a remarkable 46 years of service.
