Several Ohio Northern University faculty and students have received recognition this spring. Here is a summary of awards and new notes.
Students recognized by Ohio Council of Criminal Justice Education
Two students were recognized for excellence from the Ohio Council of Criminal Justice Education in 2020. Senior criminal justice student Katie Klamut earned the OCCJE Undergraduate Research Paper of the Year award for “Connecting Through the Wire: The Relationship Between Class, Race, Gender, and Police Brutality” Law student Genc Nimoni earned the OCCJE Graduate Research Paper of the Year for “Rule of Law on State-building Societies - Republic of Kosovo.”
Several Ohio Northern University students have been recognized for their leadership on campus.
The DeBow Freed Award for Outstanding Student Leadership as an Undergraduate Student is presented annually to one male and one female student from each undergraduate class. The award recognizes recipients for their positive leadership in the campus community.
The first awards were presented in 1999 and are named in honor of the former president and president emeritus of the university, who dedicated his life to the virtue of servant leadership.
Ohio Northern University will resume in-person, residential education this fall. It will do so in alignment with state government required safety measures and consistent with CDC guidelines and other community health safeguards.
The health and safety of students, faculty and staff are paramount as Ohio Northern engages several work groups to develop a comprehensive safety program based on social distancing in classrooms, labs, residence halls, campus apartments and other facilities; on enhanced and frequent cleaning of spaces and surfaces throughout campus; on increased access to hygiene products and PPE, and on availability of frequent testing and contact tracing.
Several ONU faculty, students and alumni received recognition this spring. Those annoucements follow:
John Estell
John K. Estell, professor of computer engineering and computer science at Ohio Northern University, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).
Ohio Northern University student Madison Carpenter of Kinsman, Ohio, has been selected as a Newman Civic Fellow for her commitment to community engagement.
She is among students nationwide to earn the one-year fellowship, which is sponsored by Campus Contact, a group working to advance the public purposes of higher education.
Carpenter, who graduated from Perry High School in Massillon, is a junior at ONU. She is majoring in political science and philosophy with minors in public policy, international relations, and gender and sexuality studies.
