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Ohio State Marion is expanding its hands‑on STEM Engineering Workshops to high schools across central Ohio, offering the program at no cost to schools or students thanks to a $10,000 Outreach and Engagement Grant awarded by The Ohio State University Office of Outreach and Engagement.

A total of 149 students from seven middle schools competed at the annual Ohio State Marion / Marion Technical College Math Challenge on Friday, May 8th. When the scores were calculated, the top nine students received $13,500 in scholarships from Marion Technical College and The Ohio State University at Marion.

The Lantern looks at the unique aspects of Ohio State's regional campuses in Marion, Mansfield, Lima, Newark and Wooster

The Ohio State University at Marion presented the C. Eugene Maynard Academic Excellence Award to Eliza Rodriguez during the 55th Annual Academic Recognition Ceremony on Friday, April 24, in the Morrill Hall Auditorium.

The Ohio State University at Marion awarded the 2026 John T. Mount Academic Excellence Award to Majd Al-Marrawi, during the 55th Annual Academic Recognition Ceremony, Friday, April 24th in Morrill Hall Auditorium.

The Ohio State University’s Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, established during the 1959–60 academic year, is one of the university’s most prestigious teaching awards. Ten faculty members were recently notified of their 2026 awards through surprise announcements led by senior university leaders.

Jessica Sturgill, an academic advisor at The Ohio State University at Marion, was recently awarded the Mary Bailey Award Academic Advising during a recent Academic Advising Association of The Ohio State University (ACADOS) annual banquet in April.

Ohio State Marion’s Dr. Ben McCorkle will bring five decades of literary history to downtown Marion on Tuesday, May 19 at 5:30 p.m., presenting A Literary Legacy: Cornfield Review at 50 at Bucci’s Italian Scratch Kitchen.

Ohio State Marion has launched the Marion Futures Lab, a new community project supported by a $49,480 Community Engagement seed grant from the Global Arts + Humanities | Cross-Disciplinary Research Exchange and the Office of Engagement in the College of Arts and Science at Ohio State.