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������Ƶ Marion Assistant Professor of Earth Sciences Dr. Joel Barker recently returned from Antarctica as a member of the Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access (SALSA) project. The goal of the SALSA project was to sample a lake beneath 1 kilometer (0.7 miles) of ice on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. This lake, Mercer Subglacial Lake, would have been only the second lake that has been accessed and sampled in Antarctica.

������Ƶ Marion Associate Professor of English, Sara Crosby was among five ������Ƶ arts and humanities faculty awarded this year’s Ronald and Deborah Ratner Distinguished Teaching Award during a surprise presentation in front of her spring semester English 4597.02 course, American Regional Cultures in Transition - Strange Louisiana.

“For students coming from families in the lower half of Ohio’s income distribution, it is less expensive to get a degree from ������Ƶ than it would be to go to a community college for two years.” Those, the words of ������Ƶ President, Dr. Michael Drake, as he spoke to the Marion Rotary Club recently.

Bailey Lucas, an undergraduate Pelotonia fellow majoring in zoology at ������Ƶ Marion, discusses the Pelotonia Fellowship Program, and cancer research she participates in, which is focused on, DNA damage repair through homologous recombination.

Like many young people, Marion native and ������Ƶ Marion student Jasmine Gaffney graduated high school faced with tough decisions about her future. She experienced the common uncertainty of where to go to school, what to major in, and her chosen career path after college.

Through innovative course design, English lecturer Sue Oakes provides students in her Technology and Science in the U.S. Experience course, English 2367.04, the opportunity to be part of a class that involves both experiential and interdisciplinary learning.

������Ƶ Marion Police Officers Mark Beaschler and Josh Alexander joined the staff at Meijer store, Marion, Ohio and other Marion area law enforcement on Saturday December 8th, as part of Marion County’s FOP Cops and Kids event.

Some bright local high school students are heading into winter break with a total of $18,000 in scholarship money from ������Ƶ at Marion and Marion Technical College after winning the OSU/MTC Marion Mathematics Challenge.

������Ƶ at Marion recently welcomed Mental Health and Wellness Counselor, Ellen Thomas, MS, LSW to the Office of Counseling and Wellness Services staff on the Marion campus.