What's Happening at Ashland University

Following the Associated Press news release on the testing of inexpensive jewelry items for cadmium content by Dr. Jeff Weidenhamer, Trustees’ Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Ashland University, Dr. Weidenhamer has conducted numerous media interviews and was interviewed for both ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS’s The Early Show.

Ashland University’s Coburn Gallery will hold a Faculty Art Exhibition Jan. 14 through Feb. 12, 2010.

An opening reception for the exhibition will be held on Thursday, Jan. 14, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. and a gallery talk back featuring sculpture professor Dan McDonald will be held at 5:15 p.m. during the Jan. 14 opening reception.

The Art Exhibition will feature Ashland University art department faculty, including George Kocar, Priscilla Roggenkamp, Dan McDonald, Cynthia Petry, Charles Caldemeyer, Jessica Maloney, Keith McMahon, Larry Schiemann and Keith Dull.

Ashland University’s Economics & Entrepreneurial Outreach Initiative Launches Multi-Faceted Programs to Help High School Students Develop the 21st Century Skills & Entrepreneurial Mindset Needed for the Future

Online content builds upon and enhances economics, entrepreneurship & science programs

Collaborative effort in concert with many Northeast Ohio leadership schools & organizations

Network of Entrepreneurs-in-Residence to be established to support program in schools

When a team of five Ashland University undergraduate students left for Entrepreneurship Immersion Week 2009, one lesson from the school’s new entrepreneurship degree provided a supportive tail wind. The lesson, in a nutshell: “nobody succeeds without sometimes failing.”