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A softball and baseball clinic for area youth was held the the River Valley complex in honor of the late Greg Swepston. The clinic was a fundraiser for the Greg Swepston Gymnasium Campaign. The campaign is working to raise $250,000 to renovate and rename the gymnasium at The Alber Student Center on campus

To her, it’s about the power of education — and creating opportunities for students. “I knew I wanted to go to college and my parents were very supportive of that,” said Nikole Patson. “But beyond that, I didn’t really think about what I would do.” Dr. Nikole Patson is an associate professor of psychology at The Ohio State University at Marion. She said her research focuses on language comprehension. She conducts language research in her lab in Marion and in the language sciences lab at COSI. Today, Dr. Nikole Patson is an associate professor of psychology at OSU Marion.

Ohio State Marion Professor of History, Dr. Margaret Sumner leads a series of free public lectures in downtown Marion summer of 2023 focusing on the history of Black citizens in Marion.

Middle school students from five area schools came to the Marion campus to test their math prowess in the Annual Math Challenge, hosted by The Ohio State University at Marion and Marion Technical College. The top math students from 145 competitors were awarded a total of $13,500 in scholarships to these colleges.

The late Greg Swepston loved sports, but his passion was baseball. A former head baseball coach at Marion Harding in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Swepston also worked for decades as a Major League Baseball scout and was a regular at the annual hall of fame induction ceremonies in Cooperstown, N.Y. It's only fitting that a youth baseball and softball clinic be held in his honor.

Ohio State Marion faculty, Senior Biology Lecturer, Melissa Petreaca; Senior English Lecturer, Peter Dully; and Assistant Professor of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, Jonathan Calede were formally recognized with the 2023 Marion Campus Teaching Excellence Award during the campus's annual Academic Recognition Ceremony, Friday, April 21, in Morrill Hall Auditorium.

From health care justice to entrepreneurship, these grads are building a more vibrant tomorrow.

Through a partnership with the United Way of North Central Ohio, students in Senior Lecturer, Amy Tibbals's English 2367.01S service-learning course awarded $4,000 dollars in grants to three Marion area non-profit organizations, Thursday, April 27th, in Maynard Hall's Guthery Community Room.

The Ohio State University at Marion, the Harding Presidential Sites, and Ohio History Connection have partnered to present the 2023 Warren G. Harding Symposium, Through the Photographer’s Lens: Exploring the United States Presidency, featuring famed author and Presidential photographer, Pete Souza, Friday, July 14 & Saturday July 15, 2023, in Marion, Ohio.