Ohio Wesleyan University senior Sharif Kronemer (Silver Spring, Md./Springbrook) won the highest honor at the eighth annual Dale J. Bruce Scholar-Athlete Awards Dinner, held on Thursday in the Benes Rooms of the Hamilton-Williams Campus Center on the Ohio Wesleyan campus.
WASHINGTON — A yearlong experiment with competitive bidding for power wheelchairs, diabetic supplies and other personal medical equipment produced $200 million in savings for Medicare, and government officials said Wednesday they are expanding the pilot program in search of even greater dividends.
Sophomore Katie Helfrich (Marysville), senior Anne McComas (Beverly Hills, Mich./Groves) and freshman Jacquelyn Zola (Brecksville/Brecksville-Broadview Heights) helped 2 relay teams win events to lead Ohio Wesleyan during the second day of the Corbiere-Merion Invitational, hosted by Ohio Wesleyan on Sunday at the Meek Center.
Sophomore Melissa Ward (Delaware/Home) posted Ohio Wesleyan’s best individual finish at the House of Champions meet, hosted by Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis on Friday and Saturday in Indianapolis.
DETROIT — Mercury levels have dropped about 20 percent in the Great Lakes in recent decades but remain dangerously high and are getting worse in some places, scientists said in a report released Tuesday.
WASHINGTON — Scientists have cracked the genetic code of the Black Death, one of history’s worst plagues, and found that its modern day bacterial descendants haven’t changed much over 600 years. Luckily, we have. The evolution of society and medicine — and our own bodies — has far outpaced the evolution of that deadly bacterium, scientists said.
Freshman kicker Miles MacKenzie (Denver, Colo./East) booted a pair of field goals to bring Ohio Wesleyan within 10–6, but that was as close as the Bishops would come in a North Coast Athletic Conference contest against Wooster on Saturday in Wooster.
John R. Burns Sr., 100, died Saturday (Sept. 3, 2011) at Willow Brook following a short illness.