7:30-9:30 p.m. on October 19 at ONU Observatory, 800 W Lincoln Ave
The public is invited to a special viewing of a bright comet.. This event begins a little earlier than usual in order to catch the comet before it sets in the west.
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) should have a total magnitude brighter than Polaris, but its light is spread out over a nucleus, coma and long tail which extends about 8 degrees, so it may be difficult to find without help.
October 1 from 7:30-8:30 p.m. in the Wilson Center Elzay Gallery of Art, 503 S Gilbert St.
Novelist Scott Morris will present a lecture and a reading from the manuscript of his novel, Gaine’s Green, on October 1.
The lecture, "Cormac McCarthy's Big Gamble writing The Road," will examine which deep human truths McCarthy believed would survive even when the world appears to have ended. The event is free and open to the public.
Both events will be followed by Q & A sessions, and the reading will be followed by a book signing.
What's a Polar Bear to do on Homecoming Saturday? Here's what they'll find on campus according to www.onu.edu/
8 a.m. - 2 p.m. - Registration at King-Horn Field House
8 a.m. - 2 p.m. - ONUMB Alumni Marching Band, Dial-Roberson Stadium
All ONUMB alumni are invited to join the 2024 band for the Homecoming Parade and Pregame show
9 a.m. - 12 p.m. - Alpha Sigma Phi Homecoming Cookout
Alpha Sigma Phi House, 5 University Parkway, Celebrate the brotherhood and network with current brothers
U.S. News & World Report has ranked Ohio Northern University as offering the best value of any college in the Midwest for 2025.
In the publication’s 2025 Best Regional Colleges Midwest list, ONU moved up two places from 2024. The best value rankings are based on a school's academic quality and the net cost of attendance.
In overall rankings, the Ohio Northern is #2 in the Midwest and #1 in Ohio.
Ohio Northern University’s English professors generally frown upon the overuse of idioms like “a blast from the past” or “out of the blue.”
Thankfully, they made an exception this summer.
Because if not “a blast from the past,” how else would 212 unsuspecting English alumni describe the experience of receiving “out of the blue” their senior capstone paper in the mail from their alma mater decades after graduating?
Ohio Northern University has been ranked #1 in Ohio in the Best Value category in the Wall Street Journal's 2025 Best Colleges in the United States, according to the University's media relations department.
ONU is also #1 in Ohio for the publication's Best Salaries ranking, which rates schools “in order of their impact on graduate’s salaries and how this relates to the cost of attending college.” WSJ/College Pulse 2025 Best Colleges in the U.S. rates the top 500 universities in the country, emphasizing how much a college improves its students’ chances of graduating on time, and how much it boosts the salaries they earn after graduation.
