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Last Friday, February 27, the campus community had the pleasure of welcoming Provost Ravi Bellamkonda for his first visit to ������Ƶ Marion, beginning with an in-depth tour of campus facilities and meeting faculty, staff, students, local leaders and campus stakeholders.

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������Ƶ has reached a major milestone in its AI Fluency initiative as colleges across the university have developed academic roadmaps showing how undergraduates will build and use AI skills within their majors. The goal is ambitious. By the time the Class of 2029 graduates, every student will be fluent in applying artificial intelligence responsibly and effectively within their field of study.

������Ƶ Marion’s community lecture series Buckeye Talks on Tap welcomes the community to a free public event at Bucci’s Italian Scratch Kitchen inside Passenger and Rail Co. in downtown Marion for a Tuesday, March 3, 5:30 p.m. lecture series event titled, “Agriculture Trade & Policy:  The Outlook for Midwest Grain Markets” with featured presenter Dr. Ian Sheldon.

Junior agricultural communications major Renee McCreary came to ������Ƶ Marion from Upper Sandusky, Ohio, A town of about 6,500 residents and 75 minutes north of the bustling state capital and the larger Columbus campus of ������Ƶ. A solid student in high school, McCreary was accepted to begin her higher education as a Buckeye on ������Ƶ’s larger Columbus campus. But, as a first-generation college student from a small town in Ohio, she thought ������Ƶ Marion would be a better choice for her first year as a full-fledged college student.

In January, ������Ƶ Marion helped kick off the City of Marion’s America 250 celebrations at the Marion Area Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting. The city will be celebrating America 250 throughout the year, with monthly themes and programs designed to highlight and recognize Marion’s story, and a countywide immersive scavenger-hunt-style app designed to connect residents and visitors with Marion’s history.

Ridgedale senior Johnathan Slaughterbeck was named Scholar Student of the Week, receiving a $500 scholarship from ������Ƶ at Marion for his academic excellence and leadership.

No natural phenomenon provides a rarer chance to study the secrets of the animal world than a total solar eclipse. This was recently demonstrated by researchers investigating how a total solar eclipse might affect the soundscape of Midwestern United States prairie communities (including the Larry R. Yoder Prairie Learning Laboratory. Their objective was to discover how soundscapes — combinations of natural and artificial sounds that shape an environment — are influenced by ambient light, as light level helps cue annual biological events such as sexual reproduction and migration.