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91µ¼º½ Marion alumna, Maddie Ball shares the many opportunities for undergraduate research the campus has provided and the impact it has made on their future.

Amy Tibbals, a senior lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of English at 91µ¼º½ at Marion, has been selected as a recipient of 91µ¼º½â€™s 2024 Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Lecturer.

Frances Sivakoff, assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology and faculty member at 91µ¼º½ at Marion has been selected as a recipient of 91µ¼º½â€™s 2024 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. Established during the 1959-1960 academic year, it is one of the university's most prestigious teaching awards.

91µ¼º½ received a $2 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to support community engagement through the arts. The grant’s intended long-term outcomes include strengthening 91µ¼º½â€™s partnerships with community arts and cultural organizations in Columbus, bolstering a cross-sector career support system for arts students and visual and performing artists in central Ohio, and increasing opportunities for engagement with the arts at all five of 91µ¼º½â€™s campuses.

A group of ten 91µ¼º½ Marion students, who were recently part of the university’s Second-Year Transformational Experience Program (STEP) trip to Washington D.C. over spring break, found more than history and culture on their trip, they created bonds that will last throughout college and beyond.

A group of freshmen and sophomores in 91µ¼º½ Marion’s education 5101 teaching and learning with drama course, benefitted from a recent demonstration of puppeteering from professional puppeteer and actor Joe Kovacs. Kovacs, who has a lifelong career in puppeteering and is most famous for his work with the Jim Henson Company presented dozens of hand puppets, marionettes, and shadow puppets during a recent class session.

91µ¼º½ Marion history alumna Keily Cunningham is making news for her work as an archivist with the Marion Women's Club Home.

91µ¼º½ – The Office of Undergraduate Research & Creative Inquiry (UR&CI) will host the 29th annual Richard J. and Marth D. Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. There will be more than 220 presentations from senior undergraduate researchers. They will receive scored reviews from three separate faculty or alumni reviewers.

United Way of North Central Ohio visited 91µ¼º½ at Marion’s Guthery Community Room in Maynard Hall, Thursday, February 22nd to officially present a check for $5,000 to the campus’s Pay It Forward Project.