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YSU News Outlet students win AP award
News Outlet interns, staff and faculty meet in Smith Hall to discuss reporting projects. The News Outlet has won an award from the Associated Press for a series of stories about the Ohio Board of...
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YSU business students help local companies with export plans
From left, YSU students, Alyssa Yaccovane. Andrew Altinos, and (far right) Kocak Ozcan meet with Michelle Durkin, research and development specialist, and Bret Barnhizer, chief executive, both of...
View ArticleStudents’ history exhibit opens in Warren museum
A new exhibit developed by graduate students in Youngstown State University’s History Department opens Sunday, June 8, at the John Stark Edwards House Museum, 303 Monroe St. NW in Warren. The exhibit...
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MBA student receives Beta Gamma Sigma scholarship
Thomas Lyden Thomas Lyden of Boardman, a graduate student in Youngstown State University’s Williamson College of Business Administration, has been selected to receive a scholarship from WCBA’s...
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Business students deemed Outstanding by Financial Executives International
Sterling Morris and Rebecca Forney Rebecca Forney of Columbiana and Sterling Morris of North Lima, students in the Lariccia School of Accounting and Finance in the Williamson College of Business...
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Religious Studies major learns Sanskrit
Dustin Hall Dustin Hall of Hubbard is spending his summer immersed in studying another language. The senior religious studies major will be completing two semesters of intermediate Sanskrit in just...
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Engineering grad trains with GE
AJ Grayson AJ Grayson has been interested in the way things work since he was a kid. “I liked anything that moved,” he said. Now, he has the chance to work with one of the biggest movers in the...
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Student accepted into prestigious Fulbright program
Kaitlin Hankins Kaitlin Hankins of Sparta, Ohio, who graduated from Youngstown State University this spring, has been accepted into the prestigious Fulbright US Student Program and will spend a year in...
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Math major lands Homeland Security internship
Senior math major Kristi Yazvac of Boardman would like to work for a federal agency one day, and she made a good start by serving an internship this summer at the Homeland Security Studies and...
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Electrical engineering major interns with Nissan
Greg Brooks Greg Brooks wants to work with audio equipment after he graduates, but that didn’t stop him from making the most of an electrical planning internship with Nissan, the automotive giant. A...
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YSU students excel again at MathFest
Participants in the 2014 MathFest are: Standing, Thomas Madsen, Camron Bagheri, Shawn Doyle, Eric Shehadi, James Munyon, Tim Shaffer and Tom Wakefield. And seated, George Yates, Angela Spalsbury, Dan...
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Alumni Spotlight: Travels & Tissues – At the Helm of a global paper company
Donald Lewis, ’86 BSBA Dan Lewis, ’86 BSBA If you told Donald Lewis 30 years ago that he’d one day be a president of a multi-billion-dollar company, the YSU marketing student would have probably said...
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Alumni Spotlight: Teaching art to a new generation
Maple Turner III Maple Turner III, ’99 BFA At 60, the YSU alumnus has returned home to retire after a prolific career as a painter and sculptor, including several years working and exhibiting his art...
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Alumni Spotlight: Setting standards high for inner-city youth
Holly Welch Holly Welch, ’08, MSEd When teacher Holly Welch agreed to create a biotechnology program for Choffin Career and Technical Center in Youngstown, the task seemed daunting. She and her six...
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Alumni Spotlight: Having a Heart for Homeless Teens
Rena Sarigianopoulos, ’96 BA in Telecommunications Rena Sarigianopoulos, ’96 BA in Telecommunications A casual question led TV journalist Rena Sarigianopoulos to the news story of her career. A...
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Grad student chosen for tech conference
Chelsea Hall Chelsea Hall of Austintown, a graduate student in YSU’s Williamson College of Business Administration, recently attended the SAP Sapphire Now 2014 conference in Orlando, Fla. Hall was...
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Communications major interns with pro soccer team
Taylor Sebring When Taylor Sebring and her family relocated to Youngstown a few years ago, she didn’t anticipate going back to her hometown of Salt Lake City for anything other than visiting family and...
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Six business students named Beeghly Fellows
From left, front row, Paige Rassega, Sterling Morris, and Timothy Cheslik; back row, Joseph Czekaj, Corey Patrick, and Dominic Jackett. Youngstown State University business students Dominic Jackett,...
View ArticleScholars, Honors students present at national conference
Students representing Youngstown State University’s Scholars and Honors Program were selected to present 11 proposals at the 49th annual meeting of the National Collegiate Honors Council in Colorado....
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Anthropology major’s research paper earns top conference award
Karen Webb-Johnson, left, division chair of the Association of American Geographers, presents a first-place undergraduate paper award to YSU senior Zaakiyah Cua Senior YSU Anthropology major Zaakiyah...
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