Students in the News

When ONU senior Abe Jacob was approached by his boss, State Senator Steve Buehrer, to testify in favor of the Ohio Grants for Grads Program, he knew it would be a great opportunity to garner relevant experience for his future.

A political science major, Jacob has been working with Senator Buehrer since his first run for State Senate in 2006. Jacob also job shadowed Senate Buehrer while in high school and has kept in touch throughout the years.

After four years of planning, Ohio Northern is now offering the Continuous Achievement Scholarship to one student in each undergraduate college.

ONU's Mock Trial Team 448 has qualified for the National Mock Trial Tournament by finishing in a tie for seventh place at the Cincinnati Regional Qualifying Tournament.

Three civil engineering students: Nathan Bair, a senior from Upper Sandusky, Ohio; Joel Metzker, a junior from Sunbury, Ohio; and Justin Stone, a senior from Burton, Ohio, have been awarded the Flexible Pavement of Ohio Scholarships of $1,000 each, for the 2009-2010 academic year.

Flexible Pavements of Ohio is an association for the development, improvement and achievement of quality asphalt pavement construction in Ohio. Each year is provides 25 to 30 scholarship awards to Ohio students. It also sponsors a student asphalt mixture competition.

The senior capstone project by four ONU civil engineering students, all now 2008 graduates, has won first prize in the 2009 Student Structural Design Competition, sponsored by the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

Julia Tabaj, a senior computer science major from Twinsburg, Ohio, is currently far from Ohio's blustery winter weather. In fact, she's far from this continent altogether. Tabaj is spending a school year abroad at the Southwest University for Nationalities in Chengdu, China.

Tabaj decided to study in China after enrolling in Mandarin Chinese classes at ONU during her junior year.

For the seventh-consecutive year, the ONU chapter of the political science honor society Pi Sigma Alpha has received a grant through the society's national office. This year, the ONU chapter received $1,279 to conduct research on the 2008 Electoral College.

Dr. Robert Alexander, BA '94, associate professor of political science and the chapter advisor, said that, with the recent presidential election and meeting of the Electoral College, it "made sense" to make it the focus of Pi Sigma Alpha's research.