It's ONU versus Notre Dame in football - and the Polar Bears are coached by a Bluffton resident.
Sort of.
Ohio Northern University engineering students under the direction of Bluffton resident, J.D. Yoder, professor and chair of mechanical engineering, along with Sami Khorbotly, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, have created a team of robotic football players.
Maple Crest hosted a concert featuring three of its talented musician-residents on March 15. Larry Burkhalter, playing the violin, was accompanied by pianists Joanne Niswander and Jean Szabo. Burkholder's daughter, Karol Crosbie, served as the Emcee for the evening.
Burkholder, a university music professor, symphony conductor and long-recognized violinist, was pleased to discover that Niswander and Szabo, also experienced musicians, were willing to work with him on several complex pieces.
Jessica Brockert, a Bluffton High School senior, is the February BHS student of the month.
Jessica carries a 4.000 grade point average, is in Math Club, Latin Club and Art Club. She is a member of S.A.D.D. (Students Against Drunk Driving) and is in the cast of the BHS musical "Alice In Wonderland." She is also a member of Youth for Christ.
Jessica received the OSU-Honda Math Medal, and is taking Calculus 2 at Bluffton University as a post-secondary option. She anticipates attending Ohio State University to study psychology and hopes to eventually become an EMT.
Standing in line, trumpet in hand, mask on, Bluffton University student Kyle Stover, looks out the long tunnel of Lucas Oil Stadium at the crowd of thousands.
He is surrounded by 150 of his newest friends who have shared an experience with him this summer unlike any other. And now, they are about to start their last experience as a group together.
Three members of the Ohio Northern University Raabe College of Pharmacy,- two who are Bluffton residents - along with a member of the Purdue University faculty, have collaborated to author a textbook titled “Pharmacogenetics, Kinetics, and Dynamics for Personalized Medicine.”
The Bluffton Lions Club has collected funds at their club meetings since January with the goal to raise $500 for the Bluffton food bank, just in time for Easter.
