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Otterbein Now Taking Applications for Our New Doctor of Nursing Practice(DNP) Program

The Otterbein College DNP Program provides the opportunity for advanced practice nurses to become the most highly educated and qualified practitioners in their field. We are now accepting applications for our first DNP classes to begin in Fall 2008. Priority admission deadline is July 21, 2008.

Groundbreaking Ceremony for the Otterbein College's New Patrick and Jill McCuan Center for Equine Studies

It was a day of hard hats and horses as Otterbein College broke ground on its new Patrick and Jill McCuan Center for Equine Studies, Friday, June 13 at 800 N. Spring Road. The $4.92 million facility will be the first of its kind – combining horses, stables, pastures and education in a suburban setting.The Center is slated for completion in Spring 2009 and is made possible by a generous gift of $1.5 million from the McCuans.

The new facility will allow the Equine Science program to expand its program offerings and to admit more students. Fifty-two stalls, as opposed to the current 25 stalls, will allow the enrollment to double from 75 to 150 students over the next 10 years. It will replace the buildings and pastures leased for the past 25 years about five miles north of Westerville. The plans for the new state-of-the-art facility also call for improved indoor and outdoor riding arenas, as well as pastures, classrooms, a riding trail and housing for a full-time stable manager. Press release.

Community Service is Thriving at Otterbein

Military Working Dogs Aris and Mike inspect care packages sent to their unit in Iraq from Otterbein College.

Otterbein's fraternities and sororities recently collected and donated 3,430 pounds of canned food to Westerville Area Resource Ministry (WARM).

In a separate service event, the Otterbein community donated 500 pounds of supplies to the soldiers and military working dogs of Camp Bucca in Iraq.

Melissa Gilbert, director of the Otterbein College Center for Community Engagement, was recently selected to serve as one of ten national leaders in the Campus Compact’s recently established New Leaders Organizing Team. Established tofoster deeper collaborative dialogue, planning, and action on campuses committed to civic and community engagement, the team consists of 10 engaged leaders and scholars, identified through a competitive national process based on their demonstrated ability to bridge engaged scholarship and administrative leadership of campus-based civic and community engagement.

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Otterbein's Miller Gallery to Feature Garden Photography

Sunflower by P. J. Rogers.

The Miller Gallery of Otterbein College will host In the Garden, an exhibition highlighting eleven contemporary Ohio artists who focus on garden-related imagery in their photographs. Made possible through funding from the Ohio Arts Council, the exhibition also highlights the Council's Individual Excellence Award program recipients.

The Miller Gallery, located in the Art and Communications Building at 33 Collegeview Rd. in Westerville, is the only central Ohio venue for the exhibition. The exhibition runs June 23-Aug. 29, with an opening reception open to the public at 5 p.m. on Thursday, June 26. The exhibit is free and open to the public. More information.

Theatre Performances Announced

Summer Theatre has announced its summer theatre schedule. Performances include Indian Blood (an Ohio premiere), Proof, and My Way, a musical tribute to Frank Sinatra.

Abandoned Apartment, Buchenstrasse, Dresden, Germany. 2005.©Fredrik Marsh 2005.

Otterbein Art Lecturer Fredrik Marsh Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship
Photographer Fredrik Marsh, a senior lecturer at Otterbein College, is the recipient of a 2008 fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Marsh is the first Guggenheim Fellow in the history of Otterbein College.

Commenting on the project that he proposed, Marsh said "My project is Vanishing Voices, Disappearing Neighborhoods: The Price of Modernization in China, and will involve photographing older neighborhoods of Guangzhou in the wake of their inevitable imminent destruction as the Chinese government continues their massive modernization through 'Smash the old; Build the new,' despite the loss of culture and displacement of entire neighborhood populations." Press release.