Northern News

Trent Dougherty and Will Reisinger, members of the Ohio Environmental Council (OEC), will discuss opportunities for lawyers working with nonprofit organizations in the Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law Moot Court Room (129) at noon on Friday, Nov. 20. The event, sponsored by the Environmental Law Society, is free and open to the public.

Ohio Northern University's Raabe College of Pharmacy honored two alumni with Distinguished Alumni Awards on Nov 5.

Robert McCurdy and Albert Sebok were recognized for their outstanding career accomplishments and their contributions to ONU.

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.

Noted Miami bankruptcy attorney John H. Genovese will discuss "Lessons Learned from Enron" on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009, at 11:30 a.m. in the Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law Moot Court Room. The event is free and open to the public.

Genovese, a 1979 graduate of the Pettit College of Law, is head of reorganization and insolvency practice at Genovese, Joblove & Battista P.A. in Miami, Fla. His areas of proficiency and practice include troubled-loan workouts, bankruptcy, insurance insolvencies with an emphasis on complex litigation in Bankruptcy and U.S.

The Ohio Northern University James F. Dicke College of Business Administration presented Cheryl (Burcham) Cotner with the Outstanding Service Award on Saturday, Oct. 10.

The award, given annually at Homecoming, honors individuals who have provided sustained and outstanding service to and whose contributions have positively impacted the College of Business Administration and Ohio Northern. This is the second year that the Distinguished Alumni Awards have been presented by the college.

Ohio Northern University's Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization staged its fall 2009 Idea Pitch Competition on Oct. 28.

Callie Crum, a junior communication arts major from Cardington, Ohio, captured first place. She collected $200 for her first place idea, an Ohio Northern recycling work study program.

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.

Roger Pilon, Ph.D., J.D., director of the Cato institute, will discuss "How Constitutional Corruption has led to Ideological Litmus Tests for Judicial Nominees" in Ohio Northern University's Pettit College of Law Moot Court Room (129) on Thursday, Oct. 29, at 11:30 a.m.

Free and open to the public, the presentation is sponsored by ONU's Federalist Society.

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."