Academic Excellence Spring 2026

by | Mar 30, 2026 | Around the ‘Bein.

Art Professor Jonathan Johnson was invited to present his artwork at the 14th annual conference at the American University of Florence, Italy. The theme was The Renaissance of Material Media, and Johnson’s presentation was Spells Against Acceleration: Embodied Filmmaking and the Poetics of Super 8mm Film.

Senior Public Health major Hanan Jama, was named Undergraduate Student of the Year by the Ohio Society for Public Health Education. Jama is an undergraduate research fellow at the Chisolm Lab at the Center of Child Health Equity and Outcomes Research at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. At Otterbein, Jama is the recipient of the Fred J. and Ann P. Kull Scholarship and the Daniel C. Thompson Memorial Scholarship.

Psychology Professor Noam Shpancer, has published Mental Fitness 101: Principles for Psychological Well-Being.

Professor John Tansey, chair of the Chemistry Department, has been elected to the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) Council. The ASBMB has over 11,000 members, publishes four scientific journals, and accredits Biochemistry and Molecular Biology programs like Otterbein’s. He joins eight other councilors who are faculty at institutions like Harvard Medical School, Stanford University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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