‘Top Gun’ tribute has Ohio State marching band soaring

The spring 2024 Roads Scholars Day highlighted Ohio State’s Newark campus, as well as community organizations and historical landmarks. 

Eight scientists at The Ohio State University have been elected to the 2023 class of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows.

People may be surprised to learn that, despite being in the heart of the Midwest, Ohio is home to spectacular coral reef fossils. Why? Because millions of years ago, the state did not look like it does now.

“This area, during the Silurian and Devonian periods, was in low latitudes. It was somewhere in the tropics,” said Loren Babcock, professor of earth sciences and director of the Orton Geological Museum at The Ohio State University. “It was covered by warm, shallow seas. That is the perfect setting for coral reefs to develop.”