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On December 4, 2025, a student team from Ohio State Marion put their engineering design skills to the test with engineering students from across the university to compete in the autumn semester College of Engineering’s Fundamentals of Engineering Design Showcase.

The Ohio State University Advancement Donor Experience department presented Ohio State Marion Community Relations Program Coordinator, Jodi Somerlot with the department’s Care and Compassion Award during the campus’s all staff meeting Wednesday, January 8, 2025, in Maynard Hall’s Guthery Community Room.

The Ohio State University at Marion Office of Student Success Programming will hold a series of academic growth workshops during spring semester 2025 titled "Student Success Workshops successive Wednesdays in the Library Classroom Building Library Learning Center beginning January 15 through February 26, 2025.

Tuesday, January 14, 5:30 p.m. is the inaugural lecture featuring Ohio State Marion Assistant Professor of Physics, Dr. Chris Orban who will present a lecture entitled, The Science Behind an Unforgettable Year in Backyard Astronomy. Dr. Orban will share his perspective on these events and explain how the sun’s 11-year cycle of magnetic activity made it especially memorable. 

First Gen Friday is a monthly first-person narrative written by other first generation college students who are now fellow faculty, staff, and students at Ohio State Marion. The goal of the stories is to provide advice to other first generation college students and create a sense of belonging among the campus community.

Friends and family gathered in the gym on the campus of The Ohio State University at Marion for a celebration. After a campaign that lasted two years and two months and raised $250,000, it officially became Greg Swepstson Gymnasium in the Alber Student Center.

The Ohio State University and engineering are a big part of the Peters family of Marion, Ohio and synonymous with a father and son who followed similar paths through Ohio State Marion to an Ohio State degree in engineering and successful career positions.

With the fundraising complete, Ohio State University at Marion showcased the refurbished and rebranded Greg Swepston Gymnasium Thursday night.

After the pencils were put down and the calculators were put away, local high school students were awarded $18,000 in scholarships to attend The Ohio State University at Marion and Marion Technical College.  105 students from six area schools (Elgin, Harding, Highland, North Union, Pleasant, and River Valley) came to the Marion campus to test their math prowess in the annual OSUM/MTC Marion Math Challenge.