YSU Enactus wins grant, donates computers to Beatitude House
YSU’s 2014-15 Enactus officers. Enactus, a student entrepreneurship group at Youngstown State University, is using proceeds from a $1,500 grant to donate four laptop computers to the Beatitude House in...
View ArticleSophomore awarded at Harvard National Model UN conference
Youngstown State University sophomore Abigail Kovacs received a verbal recognition award last month while representing the Republic of Kenya in the Harvard National Model United Nations conference held...
View ArticleStudent HR organization places first
Winning team members and coaches. From left, Denise Carissimo, YSU Management faculty; Paige Rassega, senior HR major; Carisa Sechrist, junior business major; and Tom Rakestraw, associate professor,...
View ArticleNew YSU Honors College hosts first recognition ceremony
More than 150 students, faculty and alumni will be honored at Youngstown State University’s first ever Honors College Recognition Ceremony on Friday, April 10, from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Chestnut Room of...
View ArticleYSU Student Affairs earns national “Most Promising” recognition
Youngstown State University’s Division of Student Affairs has been named one of the 15+ Most Promising Places to Work in Student Affairs in the nation. The national list was developed by the Center for...
View ArticleGrad student wins State Department scholarship
Kathryn Robison Kathryn Robison, a graduate student in Youngstown State University’s American Studies program, has been selected for the 2015 Turkish Critical Language Scholarship Program, a nationally...
View ArticleGreek Sing set April 11 at Stambaugh Auditorium
Fraternity and sorority students at Youngstown State University will demonstrate their singing and dancing talents at Greek Sing, an annual musical variety show set for 6 p.m. Saturday, April 11, in...
View ArticleHackYSU: 36 hours to learn, create and network
Abdu Arslanyilmaz College and high school students from across the Cleveland/Pittsburgh Tech Belt are invited to Youngstown State University’s first-ever Hackathon, a weekend of computer-related...
View ArticleYSU students engage in service in Haiti
Pictured, from the left, are Sidney Snyder, Troyia Woods, Kaitlin Lehner, Brandon Mitchell, Danielle Dutton, A’ja Glover and Sherri Woods on the roof of the Northwest Haiti Christian Mission in St....
View ArticlePenguin Mates, Spring 2015
Since the summer of 2013, YSU Magazine has been inviting married YSU couples to share their love stories in Penguin Mates. The couples featured here were introduced in the magazine’s Spring 2015 print...
View ArticleThis Week at YSU, April 13, 2015
The 2015 Penguins football team practices earlier this month in preparation for the annual Red-White Game 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 17 in Stambaugh Stadium. Monday, April 13, 4 p.m. TV producer Andy Och...
View ArticleFree software workshop planned
A free workshop on the use of COMSOL 5.0 & High-Freq EM, multiphysics simulation software products, is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, April 17 at Moser Hall on the campus of Youngstown...
View ArticleWCBA, STEM host first Ohio Internship and Co-op Appreciation Day
Youngstown State University’s College of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics and Williamson College of Business Administration hosts the first annual Ohio Internship and Co-op...
View Article“First Ladies” topic of campus presentation
TV producer Andy Och talks about the C-SPAN series “First Ladies: Influence and Image,” at 4 p.m. Monday, April 13, in DeBartolo Hall Room 132 on the campus of Youngstown State University. The program...
View Article“From Deep” documentary screened on campus this week
Brett Kashmere, producer of “From Deep” “From Deep,” an experimental documentary about the game of basketball and its shifting place within 20th century American history and culture, will be screened...
View ArticleWear red to health fair April 18
Participants are encouraged to wear red to signify support for women’s heart health when they attend “300 Sisters in Red,” a health fair planned for 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 18 in Kilcawley...
View ArticleNonprofit Leadership students partake in study at Cleveland Museum of Art
Standing under the sign for the “Under the Senufo: Art and Identity in West Africa” exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art are YSU students Jennifer Heitger, Emily Young and Marcy Angelo. They were...
View ArticleHigh schoolers come to campus to improve financial literacy
More than 400 area high school students and 35 area educators will attend the eighth annual “Financial Starting Points” conference Friday, April 17 in Kilcawley Center on the campus of Youngstown State...
View ArticleCampus program asks: “How do planes crash?”
Wreckage from the April 2010 crash of a PolishTu-154M. “How do planes crash? A discussion of two controversial air disasters from an engineering perspective” is the subject of a program 3 p.m. Friday,...
View ArticleSTEM Showcase April 25 highlights labs, top student projects
Junior chemistry majors Matthew LaLama and Jennifer Miller in the X-ray diffraction lab in Ward Beecher Hall. The Youngstown State University College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics...
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