Monthly Archives: February 2011

Frank Quinn ’78

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February 24, 2011
(Photo courtesy of Frank F. Quinn ’78)

Alumnus Frank Quinn ’78 gives OWU $500,000 gift.
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Ohio Wesleyan to Host ‘History of the Future’ Photography Exhibit

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February 24, 2011
‘Checkpoint,’ Hermosillo, Sonora, 2004, by Julián Cardona. Immigration-themed photographs by Cardona, a photojournalist, and by Michael Berman, an art-photographer, will be on display from March 1 through April 6 at the Ross Art Museum. (Photo courtesy of the Lannan Foundation)

From March 1 through April 26, Ohio Wesleyan’s Ross Art Museum will be filled with photographs that focus on the issue of Mexican migration. To allow as many people as possible to see the powerful exhibit, the museum will remain open during OWU’s upcoming spring break, a time it traditionally is closed.
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Ohio Wesleyan Professor Makes Learning Chinese a Social (Media) Event

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February 24, 2011
Students in OWU’s Chinese Program presented a Lion Dance on February 18 as part of their Chinese New Year celebration. The activity was part of faculty member Ching-Hsuan Wu’s effort to incorporate Chinese into her students’ daily lives. She also is using Facebook as part of her curriculum, which includes Wu asking questions in Chinese via video and having students post their responses. (Photo by Alex Crump ’13)

To teach Chinese as effectively as possible, Ohio Wesleyan University assistant professor Ching-Hsuan Wu decided she first needed to speak her students’ language.
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Ohio Wesleyan Students Span the Globe during Spring Break

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February 24, 2011
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Ohio Wesleyan University is committed to providing an educational experience that transforms classroom theory into real-world experience, and this mission is being carried out during spring break (March 6-13) as students, faculty, and staff learn and serve around the globe.
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Celebrating the Life of Dr. Horace Allen

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February 24, 2011
Pictured here are several Korean visitors and members of the OWU and Delaware communities, who gathered for lunch in the Hamilton-Williams Campus Center in mid-February. (Photo by Cole Hatcher)

More Koreans know of Dr. Horace Newton Allen than residents of Ohio or even Delaware, where he was born and raised. Twenty-one Koreans visited Delaware during the week of February 14 to join members of the First Presbyterian Church to recognize Allen and celebrate the end of a year-long celebration of the church’s 200th...
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2011 Heritage Day to Feature Community Service Learning

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February 24, 2011
Ohio Wesleyan students regularly tutor students at Columbus City Schools through its Columbus Initiative program. (Photo courtesy of the OWU Community Services Learning Center)

Ohio Wesleyan University’s Heritage Day Committee of students, faculty, and staff has begun to plan this year’s event, which will explore OWU’s strong history of community service learning.
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Fiorentino Looks to Inspire Bishop Men’s Lacrosse

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February 24, 2011
Nick Fiorentino. (Photo by Bruce Heflin)

Named awards are nothing new. The Ohio Wesleyan athletics department alone bestows the Robert Strimer Honor Award and the George Gauthier Award, and there are many, many others.
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Remembering Violet

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February 10, 2011
One for all, and all for the OWU women’s lacrosse team’s adopted player, Violet Baier, 7, who passed away on December 7. (Photo by Sara Tincher)

The Ohio Wesleyan women’s lacrosse team said goodbye to a teammate in December, and will dedicate this season to her memory.
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Undefeated Month Fuels Men’s Basketball

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February 10, 2011
Tim Brady ’12. (Photo by Sara Tincher)

The Ohio Wesleyan men’s basketball team went undefeated in January, defeating seven straight conference opponents including 11th-ranked Wabash.
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Learning to be Leaders

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February 10, 2011
Lizzie Herder ’14 (left) and Lauren Chapman ’12 exchange ideas about their leadership experiences at the OWU Summit leadership conference on February 5. (Photo by Debbie Lamp)

On an early Saturday morning in February, 90 Ohio Wesleyan students braved the snow and cold temperatures to come together for a morning of empowerment, self-discovery, and entertainment. These students were participating in the annual OWU Summit, a leadership conference designed to help students develop their skills so that they may be more...
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Ohio Wesleyan Class Spends Semester in Tanzania

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February 10, 2011
The Ohio Wesleyan in Tanzania class with associate professor Randy Quaye in front of Mount Meru, the second highest point in Tanzania. (Photo courtesy of Randy Quaye)

Twelve Ohio Wesleyan students and Associate Professor of Black World Studies Randy Quaye are immersed in the culture of Africa this semester through the Ohio Wesleyan University in Tanzania program.
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2011 Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast Celebration

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February 10, 2011
(Photo by John Holliger)

The 2011 MLK breakfast celebration took place at 8:30 a.m. at Ohio Wesleyan in the Hamilton-Williams Campus Center Benes Rooms. The program featured a showing of the documentary film “Mighty Times: The Children’s March,” outlining civil rights activity in Birmingham, Alabama during the early 1960s.
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Dan DiBiasio ’71

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February 10, 2011
(Photo courtesy of Wilmington College)

Dan DiBiasio ’71 Named President of Ohio Northern University.
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Bishops Win Two Community Service Awards

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February 10, 2011
Athletics Director Roger Ingles receives one of two special community service awards Ohio Wesleyan received at the recent NCAA convention. (Photo courtesy of Cynthia Holliday)

The National Association of Division III Athletic Administrators has recognized the Ohio Wesleyan athletics department not for its performance on the field or court, but for dedication and service to the community.
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Run Across Ethiopia

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February 10, 2011
OWU alumna Claire Everhart ’10 participated in ‘Run Across Ethiopia’ in January. The philanthropic event raised funds to build schools in the African republic. Everhart shares her story here. (Photo courtesy of Run Across Ethiopia)

The hardest part of the “Run Across Ethiopia” was not, actually, the running.
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Great Decisions 2011

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February 10, 2011
Eight speakers will participate in this year’s Great Decisions program. Top row: Richelle Schrock, Paul Craft, Barbara MacLeod, and Douglas Dittrick. Bottom row: James Franklin, Michael Flamm, Alper Yalçinkaya, and Corinne Lyman. (Photo montage by Doug Thompson)

Delaware residents are invited to learn more about the many “Great Decisions” facing the nation and to share their opinions with U.S. policymakers on issues ranging from Somali refugees to international finances.
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Ohio Wesleyan Group Transforms Truck into Haitian-style Tap-tap

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February 10, 2011
Frank Hobbs and Sally Leber at work transforming the truck into a Tap-tap. (Photo by Sara Tincher)

The HaitiOWU Initiative will be symbolized in the campus and area community with a donated truck that was recently transformed into a Tap-tap cab—a type of colorful, distinctive shared taxi commonly used in Haiti.
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A Green Screening

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February 7, 2011
(Image courtesy of Sustainable Delaware)

Ohio Wesleyan University students and faculty will have the opportunity to work on projects that promote environmental, social, and economic sustainability through the newly formed citizens group Sustainable Delaware.
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Ohio Wesleyan’s Expanded Neuroscience Program Named to Honor David Robbins

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February 3, 2011
Caption goes here. (Photo by Sara Tincher)

Ohio Wesleyan’s neuroscience program which was founded in 1994, has been named to honor a distinguished OWU professor and Ohio Wesleyan’s provost since 2005, David Robbins. The program, now called the David O. Robbins Neuroscience Program, recognizes his many accomplishments since joining OWU’s faculty in 1973. Enhancements to the program are being...
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