Cedarville University

When senior Hannah Stuercke, a nursing major from Monterey, California, was assigned a project for her ceramics foundation course, her work took a surprising turn. Combining her love for nursing and anatomy with creative studio art, Stuercke fashioned ceramic organ sculptures. Her works of art are currently on display in the university's school of nursing. Though science and art may seem like an unlikely duo, that wasn't always the case. Great historic artists such as Leonardo-Da Vinci and Wolfgang-AmadeusMozart, were also scientists.

Ryan Wade, a junior molecular and cellular biology major from Ontario, New York, moved back to Cedarville in June to spend the second half of his summer working at nearby Kettering Transportation Services. Meanwhile, he completed department training at Cedarville Township Volunteer Fire Department and Cedarville University Emergency Medical Services (CU-EMS). At Kettering Transportation Services, Wade worked several 12-hour shifts each week. During an average shift, Wade and the emergency team would go on eight or nine calls. For Wade, devoting a significant part of his summer break from college was well worth the sacrifice. He found fulfillment in meeting the needs of others who found themselves in critical situations. Now back at Cedarville for the fall semester, he volunteers aboard CU-EMS's own ambulance, MEDIC-15. CU-EMS, a volunteer ambulance service run entirely by students, is designed to cover the emergency health needs of Cedarville's campus but also responds to calls from the surrounding community if needed.

Jason Paulus, a 2021 mechanical engineering graduate from Colorado Springs, Colorado, received first prize and a $2,500 award for his paper "A Multi-Input Control Model for a Hydrofoil Boat with Differential Front & Rear Strut Steering and Actuated-Wing-Induced Roll" in the 2021 Mandles Prize for Hydrofoil Excellence, sponsored by the International Hydrofoil Society (IHS). While Paulus worked alongside the solar boat team preparing for the competition, his award-winning paper was independently authored. The team's work, which focused on upgrading and preparing their existing boat for competition, varied from Paulus' paper, which focused on the feasibility of an automatic flight control system for a future design.

Cedarville student Luke Woodard is helping his sister get a hometown pharmacy off the ground in Germantown, Ohio. While serving in a pharmacy fellowship, working as a pharmacist and being a mom, Dr. Katherine Perry from Camden, Ohio, a Cedarville University pharmacy alumna, also decided to open her own independent pharmacy from scratch. With help from her family, Perry hopes to bring a personal touch to healthcare in Germantown, Ohio, near where she grew up. Her mother, Michelle Woodard, currently works at the store, as does Perry's brother, Luke Woodard, a Cedarville finance student from Camden, Ohio. Her sister, Abby Woodard, also from Camden, plans on joining her after graduation from the Cedarville University School of Pharmacy in May 2022. This isn't Perry's first experience with an independent pharmacy. As part of her fellowship at the Cedarville University School of Pharmacy, she served at Cedar Care Village Pharmacy in Cedarville, the teaching pharmacy of the university. This experience helped her understand firsthand the personal touch an independent pharmacy can provide.

While serving in a pharmacy fellowship, working as a pharmacist and being a mom, Dr. Katherine Perry from Camden, Ohio, a Cedarville University pharmacy alumna, also decided to open her own independent pharmacy from scratch. With help from her family, Perry hopes to bring a personal touch to healthcare in Germantown, Ohio, near where she grew up. Her mother, Michelle Woodard, currently works at the store, as does Perry's brother, Luke Woodard, a Cedarville finance student from Camden, Ohio. Her sister, Abby Woodard, also from Camden, plans on joining her after graduation from the Cedarville University School of Pharmacy in May 2022. This isn't Perry's first experience with an independent pharmacy. As part of her fellowship at the Cedarville University School of Pharmacy, she served at Cedar Care Village Pharmacy in Cedarville, the teaching pharmacy of the university. This experience helped her understand firsthand the personal touch an independent pharmacy can provide.

A team of Cedarville University engineering students captured first place in the 2021 SAE Supermileage Competition, the second consecutive year they've claimed the top prize. The competition usually includes a written report, an oral design report and a race to measure fuel consumption. Because of COVID-19 protocols, the race was canceled and the oral report was given remotely. This was the team's second first-place finish this year. "Sting," Cedarville's other prototype car, won first place in technical innovation at the Shell Eco-Marathon Americas Off-Track Awards with a hydraulic braking system designed by senior mechanical engineering student Micah Zell.

Led by senior mechanical engineering student Micah Zell, Cedarville's supermileage team won a technical innovation award at the 2021 Shell Eco-Marathon Americas Off-Track Awards for its vehicle's hydraulic brake system. Zell, from Hershey, Pennsylvania, began developing the brakes as a sophomore and implemented them this past year in accordance with Shell's new hydraulic brake requirement. In addition to being recognized for this technical innovation at the Shell awards, which Cedarville has competed at every year since its inception in America in 2007, the supermileage team also recently presented a second vehicle at the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Supermileage competition. Josiah Hirschler, a senior civil engineering student from Chillicothe, Ohio, led this team with Brianna Ice, a senior mechanical engineering major from Dover, Ohio, who served as the overall team leader for both the Shell and SAE competitions.

Cedarville Student Emma McCray of Centerville, OH, majoring in Primary (P-5) Education, was named to the Dean's Honor List for Spring 2021. This recognition requires the student to obtain a 3.75 GPA or higher for the semester and carry a minimum of 12 credit hours.

While serving in a pharmacy fellowship, working as a pharmacist and being a mom, Dr. Katherine Perry from Camden, Ohio, a Cedarville University pharmacy alumna, also decided to open her own independent pharmacy from scratch. With help from her family, Perry hopes to bring a personal touch to healthcare in Germantown, Ohio, near where she grew up. Her mother, Michelle Woodard, currently works at the store, as does Perry's brother, Luke Woodard, a Cedarville finance student from Camden, Ohio. Her sister, Abby Woodard, also from Camden, plans on joining her after graduation from the Cedarville University School of Pharmacy in May 2022. This isn't Perry's first experience with an independent pharmacy. As part of her fellowship at the Cedarville University School of Pharmacy, she served at Cedar Care Village Pharmacy in Cedarville, the teaching pharmacy of the university. This experience helped her understand firsthand the personal touch an independent pharmacy can provide.

Eight students from Cedarville University will compete in the 2021 Solar Splash June 8-13 at Champions Park Lake in Springfield, Ohio with the Cedarville University team. Solar Splash brings in teams of college engineering students to the Ohio lake to test their knowledge and skill in solar-powered boat performance. The main events of the competition are the Slalom race, which tests the speed of the boat, the Sprint race covering 330 meters, and Endurance, which lasts for two hours. Teams also earn points based on other categories, such as workmanship and maneuverability.

Cedarville University conferred 892 degrees at its 125th commencement during three separate religious graduation programs April 30 - May 1 in the Doden Field House.

The following students were named to the Dean's Honor List at Cedarville University for Spring 2021. This recognition requires the student to obtain a 3.75 GPA or higher for the semester and carry a minimum of 12 credit hours.

Social work majors seek to bear others' emotional burdens, but for sophomore Hannah Abel, she has an added difficulty to navigate: her sight. Diagnosed with Stargardt's at the age of 9 and pronounced legally blind, Abel refused to let it stop her from pursuing her dreams. Stargardt's is a juvenile form of macular degeneration that causes the retina to deteriorate. "I can see better out of my peripheral vision, but it is still difficult to do all the normal things a person could," said Abel. "People think glasses fix it, but they just make things slightly less blurry." Growing up, Abel, from Cedarville, Ohio, pushed herself to excel along with her classmates. Her sweet disposition and can-do attitude propelled her to graduate from high school and pursue her bachelor's degree in social work at Cedarville University.

The following students were named to the Dean's List at Cedarville University for Spring 2021. This recognition requires the student to obtain a 3.5 GPA or higher for the semester and carry a minimum of 12 credit hours.

Jackson Bishop, a senior computer science major from Findlay, Ohio, has been developing a high-tech tour app that will be used at Cedarville University to help users explore what their reality at Cedarville might look like. Bishop has collaborated with Chad Jackson, director of creative services, over the past year to create the custom virtual reality (VR) app for the university. The app, which operates through Oculus VR technology, will debut in June at the annual Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) conference in Nashville, Tennessee.

After a couple summers working in the food industry, Cedarville University junior Rachel Higbee knew she wanted a career that could incorporate her love of art. This led her to found Arae Designs, where she has already sold over 1,000 custom-made clay earrings in a little over a year. Higbee, a professional writing and information design major from Brownsburg, Indiana, experimented with custom paintings and drawings in high school. However, even though she received a lot of orders, the time involved in fulfilling each request kept this from becoming a sustainable business while she was also a full-time student.

Four Cedarville University English majors want to help transfer students with the process of adjusting to campus life and hosted a game night Friday, April 16 from 7-9 p.m. The event was held in the Center for Biblical and Theological Studies, room 101. Kaylee Hunt, a senior from Wayne, New Jersey; Elly Watkins, a junior from Cedarville, Ohio; Katie Korwan, a junior from Westford, Massachusetts; and Ashley Gosman, a senior from Madison, Indiana came up with the event idea based on their own experiences. Hunt and Watkins transferred to Cedarville from other institutions, and Korwan and Gosman transferred to the English major from different departments.

Cedarville University senior Alyx Vissing had hoped that her internship at Trans World Radio (TWR) would lead to a full-time position with TWR. Vissing is a senior broadcasting, digital media and journalism major with an emphasis in radio from Willow Wood, Ohio. After graduation in May, Vissing will return to TWR as a full-time missionary serving as the Women of Hope audio/visual production coordinator. In this position, Vissing will plan and produce all audio and visual content for TWR-Women of Hope, which includes recording and voicing content, finding and training talent and editing and producing the finished product.

In a time in which travel is limited, Cedarville University students will be serving the nations who have come to the States this summer. From May 2-9, Dr. Thad Franz, vice chair of experiential programs at Cedarville, and N.D. Nguyen, a first-year graduate student in pharmacy, will lead a team of students to serve the refugee community in Clarkston, Georgia.

Cedarville University's history and government department will host the first-ever Romans 14 Forum on April 10 at 6 p.m. in the Center for Biblical and Theological Studies, room 115, created by sophomore English major Brendan Rowland, from Westford, Massachusetts, and junior English major Evan Ellis from Broomfield, Colorado. The event will encourage unity and understanding through exploring different opinions on secondary issues in the Christian faith.

He grew up 7,019 miles away from Cedarville University, speaking a different language, enjoying a different culture and experiencing a different climate. Now, he's not only learning at Cedarville - he's leading. Rufus Mathew, a junior computer science major from the Kingdom of Bahrain, was recently elected Student Government Association (SGA) president for 2021-22 at Cedarville University.

Cedarville University's history and government department will host the first-ever Romans 14 Forum on April 10 at 6 p.m. in the Center for Biblical and Theological Studies, room 115. The event will encourage unity and understanding through exploring different opinions on secondary issues in the Christian faith. Three student speakers will lead the forum in a panel format. Each will offer a short presentation on a topic and will answer student questions vetted by event moderators.

A new creative collaboration opportunity has Cedarville University students joining forces to produce multimedia art projects. "The Duos Project: A Collaborative Experience" connects visual artists with writers for the purpose of creating a final project incorporating both writing and images. English majors Rachel Rathbun, a sophomore from Hubbardston, Massachusetts, and Grace Kohler, a junior from Elyria, Ohio, have been overseeing the project since its inception in January. Rathbun came up with the idea from observing the artwork on display at a coffee shop in her hometown.

When sophomore Ellen Davis, an early education and special education double major from Lafayette, Indiana, was asked about her passions and hopes for the school of education, her childhood alongside a younger brother with Down syndrome inspired an advocacy event to encourage and exhort her peers. On Monday, March 22, Cedarville University's Student Education Association (SEA) hosted a disabilities forum to address how individuals can care for those with special needs. The event featured expert panelists and personal testimonials.

The COVID-19 pandemic left students without the classes, opportunities and trips they'd been excitedly anticipating from Cedarville University's D.C. semester program. But nearly a year after shifting to remote classes at the end of the 2020 spring semester, deferring ceremonies and canceling study abroad programs, some opportunities are being reinstated, ushering students back into the classroom and the airport.

On Monday, March 22, Cedarville University's Student Education Association (SEA) hosted a disabilities forum to address how individuals can care for those with special needs. The event featured expert panelists and personal testimonials. Brittney Oliver, SEA president and a senior early childhood education major from Fairborn, Ohio, played a part in planning this event.

On Friday, April 2, Cedarville University hosted a Red Cross blood drive with hopes to yield new plasma donors in the fight against COVID-19. This spring's blood drive took place in the Stevens Student Center (SSC) event rooms 240 & 241, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

In a normal year, junior primary education majors serve in local school districts, working with a mentor teacher to tutor first through third-grade students. Now, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, teacher candidates and teachers are forced to think outside the classroom to connect with students remotely.

Most married couples can recall stories of stress from the wedding-planning process, especially those who planned their big days while in college. But for the many recently engaged couples at Cedarville University, COVID has eclipsed the challenges of ongoing academic commitments.

James Barber, a senior accounting major and member of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) at Cedarville University, has been recognized as a Cadet of the Year by the Central State University ROTC program. Out of nearly 20,000 cadets nationwide, Barber is one of 273 cadets to be honored with the award. Recipients were selected from regional ROTC programs after their grades, academic standing and leadership potential were assessed, and they attended a virtual leadership conference where they received training from general officers.