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). 

He will serve a three-year term beginning this June as the Chair of Professional Interest Council III, which consists of 14 out of a total of 56 ASEE divisions. Estell has been a member of ASEE since 1993 and was elected in 2016 as a fellow in recognition of the breadth, richness, and quality of his contributions to the betterment of engineering education.

He has previously held leadership positions within ASEE as chair of both the First-Year Programs and Computers in Education divisions and has received multiple ASEE Annual Conference Best Paper awards. Estell received the ASEE First-Year Programs Division’s Distinguished Service Award in 2019.

Creative writing faculty
Jennifer Moore, assistant professor of creative writing at Ohio Northern University, published a chapbook of poems titled Smaller Ghosts. 

The chapbook is a collection of centos, poems composed entirely of pieces from other source texts, and draws from Shakespeare, Donne, Dara Wier, Claribel Alegria and Afaa Michael Weaver. Smaller Ghosts was selected for the Editor's Series at Seven Kitchens Press.

Team of ONU students, alumni and faculty 
A team of Ohio Northern University chemistry and biochemistry students, alumni and faculty recently had their research published in the April 2020 issue of Applied Organometallic Chemistry. 

Bradley Wile, associate professor of chemistry, along with... 
• Austin Lanquist, class of 2016; 
• Michael Murray, class of 2018;
• junior Victoria Ternes, and
• sophomore Hannah Morgan ...
authored research about a series of new complexes of ruthenium that show activity as catalysts for the selective oxidation of alcohols, which serves as a useful route to important pharmaceutical and commodity chemical species.

The research was funded by the Weir Fellowship and a grant from the ACS Petroleum Research Fund.