Arts and Sciences News

Ohio Northern University will dedicate its new medicinal herb path, a shade garden featuring 17 medicinal plants, on Tuesday, Nov. 17, at 12:30 p.m.

Ohio Northern University's Pi Iota chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honor society, was recently chosen to receive one of the honorary's Best Chapter Awards for 2008-09.

Each year, Pi Sigma Alpha selects four schools with enrollments less than 6,000 to win the award. Winning schools must exhibit exemplary activity in their departments and universities. According to Pi Sigma Alpha's national office, the award recognizes chapters that "exhibit high levels of energy and creativity in furthering the goals of the honor society."

On Oct. 17 and 18, Ohio Northern University's theatre students Joanna Ginn, Garrett Young, Kara Dombrowski, Valerie Witherspoon, Cassie Rea and Amanda Fanno, along with John Armstrong, assistant professor of theatre arts, travelled to Cleveland for a weekend of theatre at the Great Lakes Theatre Festival (GLTF).

Ohio Northern University presents "Saudi Day at ONU" on Nov. 4 to recognize the partnership between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Ohio Northern and celebrate the successful beginning of the ONU Prison Management Certificate Program.

This event is sponsored by students of the program in conjunction with ONU students from Saudi Arabia.

Umar A. Sulayman, the ESL (English as a second language) instructor for Ohio Northern University's prison management certificate program, will speak in ONU's Dicke Forum on Nov. 3, at 7 p.m.

Sponsored by the Phi Beta Delta International Forum, Sylayman's presentation is called "Baghdad and Iraq: Past, Present, and Future."

Lloyd Butler, music director of the Ohio Northern University Symphony Orchestra, has been invited to guest conduct the Julian Carillos Symphony Orchestra in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, on Nov. 7, 2009.

Ohio Northern University presents "Katrina: the K Word" in the Freed Center for the Performing Arts' Stambaugh Studio Theatre from Oct. 28-31 at 8 p.m. and on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 at 2 p.m. There will be a pre-show discussion on Oct. 28 at 7:15 p.m.

The Ohio Northern University Wind Orchestra presents "Wind Music of Yesterday and Today" at the Freed Center for Performing Arts on Saturday, Nov. 7, at 8 p.m. A pre-show discussion is at 7:15 p.m.

"Wind Music of Yesterday and Today" includes works of the early 20th-century British masters Gordon Jacob and Percy Grainger, along with contemporary works by Philip Sparkes and Richard Rodney Bennett.

The Ohio Northern University music department presents the Marching Band-O-Rama 2009 in the Freed Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday, Nov. 8, at 4 p.m.

Known as the "Star of Northwest Ohio, " the marching band will perform music from their 2009 programs, "That 60s, 70s, and 80s Show" and "Sketches of Spain." "That 60s, 70s, and 80s Show" includes music from the movies "Rocky" and "Back to the Future." The show also includes music from the late Michael Jackson.

Ohio Northern University's University Singers kick off their annual fall tour in Lima, Ohio, on Sunday, Oct. 25. The tour will conclude with a home concert at Ohio Northern's Presser Hall on Sunday, Nov. 1, at 7 p.m.

This 50-voice choir is lead by Dennis L. Kratzer, director of choral activities and professor of music at ONU.