Northern News

Ohio Northern University will begin a two-year prison management certificate program this summer for prison administrators from Saudi Arabia.

Ohio Northern will offer 30 prison management professionals, who already have bachelor's degrees and training, the opportunity to study the English language and criminal justice in Ohio Northern University's Department of History, Politics and Justice.

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The Inn at Ohio Northern University presents "Just Jazz Inn," a weekly series of live music and dining events at The Inn's outdoor garden courtyard, beginning every Friday at 4:30 p.m.

These weekly events are free and open to the public.

Ohio Northern University's Department of Technological Studies teams garnered four awards, including a gold award, at the National Robotics Challenge in Marion, Ohio, on April 17-18.

ONU sent six teams and 21 students to the competition. The team of Rob Hradek, Wooster, Ohio; Scott Nemeth, Westlake, Ohio; Courtney Johnson, Fremont, Ohio; Katie Wade, Ijamsville, Md., Jose Guzman, Lima, Ohio; and Eric Gray, North Fairfield, Ohio, won a gold award in workcell animation for its ice cream serving machine. The team also won the people's choice award and a $500 prize.

Ohio Northern University's women's health class will celebrate National Women's Health Week by hosting women's health events in the Ada and Lima communities from May 10-16.

Ohio Northern University's Fulbright Scholar in Residence Juan Manuel Guerra-Hernandez will speak on "Education in Mexico" in Dicke 137 on Tuesday, April 28, from 7-8 p.m. The presentation is sponsored by Phi Beta Delta's International Forum.

Ohio Northern University will host the fifth annual "Unite for Awareness Week," a student-driven initiative to bring attention to issues of discrimination, beginning on Monday, April 27.

On Monday, April 27, the topic is gender orientation. ONU Open Doors will present a documentary on the Rubi Girls, a group of professional drag queens who raise money for AIDS research, at 7 p.m. in the Dicke Forum. Jonathan McNeal, who made the documentary, will be on hand to discuss the film.

David C. Crago, Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law dean and professor of law, has been named ONU’s interim vice president of academic affairs, effective July 1.
 
Crago, who will remain dean of the College of Law, takes on the responsibilities of the departing Dr. Anne Lippert, who announced her retirement earlier this year. Lippert, who has been with ONU since 1971, has served as vice president since 1992.

The spring 2009 joint meeting of the Ohio-region section of the American Physical Society (OS/APS) and the Southern Ohio section of the American Association of Physics Teachers will take place Friday, April 24, and Saturday, April 25, on the campus of Ohio Northern University.

The theme of the conference is "Plasma FUNdamentals." There will be four keynote speakers from the fields of space plasma physics, basic plasma physics, applied plasma physics and fusion physics.

Ohio Northern University will host a two-day DNA Evidence Training Collection course. Classes will take place in Meyer Hall of Science on June 2 and 3 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.