April 2024
An Exciting Inauguration Week!
Sisi Fish ’24 (left), Veronica Tai Padron ’24, and Mariam Samkharadze ’25 pose with a lifesize image of President Matt vandenBerg and the Bishop as part of a weeklong celebration of OWU’s presidential inauguration. (Photo by Paul Vernon)
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17th President
President vandenBerg delivers his inauguration address April 19, including the surprise announcement of a tuition-free Delaware County Promise program for qualified students beginning this fall.
Groundbreaking Agreement
President vandenBerg and President Dwaun Warmack of Claflin University sign a historic sister school agreement. South Carolina-based Claflin is one of the nation’s leading HBCUs.
‘Landmark Partnership’
Columbus State Community College President David Harrison and President vandenBerg announce new Tuition Match, Teach Now, and Preferred Pathway programs to help more students earn their bachelor’s degrees.
Big Business
President vandenBerg announces a new OWU Business Plan Competition with a combined prize package of more than $250,000. Open to everyone, it is now the most valuable contest of its kind statewide.
Science Success
Jack Gensler ’26 (left) and Natalia Molotievskiy ’25 show off the award-winning research posters they presented at the Ohio Branch of the American Society for Microbiology meeting.
‘Ethnobotany and Enslavement’
Carly Sanders ’24 (left) and Professor Laurie Anderson learn to collect plant specimens in the field as they study botanical medicine in West Africa.
‘Invaluable Perspectives’
Anin Nair ’26 (left), Sanya Sapra ’24, Kennedy Watkins ’25, and Lily Rekow ’26 attend the 2024 WECode (Women Engineers Code) conference at Harvard University.
Gut Instincts
Future veterinarian Ireland Nowak ’24 works in the laboratory to complete independent research tied to the gut health of French bulldogs in home and puppy mill environments.
Novel Experience
Nine Ohio Wesleyan students attend the 2024 Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference & Bookfair in Missouri with the support of an OWU Connection grant.
OWU Dividends
Six Accounting & Finance Fellows visit Washington, D.C., as part of a five-day travel-learning experience that includes meetings with alumni working in their fields of interest.
‘Grounded’
Ohio Wesleyan’s graduating Fine Arts students, including Colin Prindle, are exhibiting works until May 11 in their senior show, “Grounded,” at the Ross Art Museum.
Centering and Serving
Two teams of Ohio Wesleyan students spend a week helping others in South Carolina and South Dakota as part of OWU's annual Spring Break Service Week program.
Words to the Wise
Kelly McFarland Stratman of the League of Women Voters of the United States will be the keynote speaker May 11 at OWU’s 180th commencement ceremony.
Academic Innovator
Barbara Bird joins OWU as the inaugural director of its newly created Teaching, Learning, and Innovation Center, which is dedicated to enhancing student academic success.
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Academic All-American
Kasey Schipfer ’24 is named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-America women's basketball teams. A guard, Schipfer is a first-team selection.
Team Title
Emily Davis ’26 wins the discus throw and Elsa Hoam ’27 wins the 3000-meter steeplechase, helping the OWU women’s track & field team take the title at the Marv Frye Invitational.
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Think Big, Do Good, Go Global, Get Real – REALLY Excited!
See why President vandenBerg thinks the OWU Connection is the best college program ever! “OWU Connection, cheer, cheer, cheer! Hands-on help with your career!” (Video by Mark Schmitter ’12)
Public Policy Analyst to Discuss
U.S.-China Relations April 23
OWU Admission to Host
Spring Open House April 26
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