Puppies to karaoke: Penguin Paradise Welcome Week opens 2015-16 academic year
Youngstown State University opens the 2015-16 academic year with Penguin Paradise Welcome Week, featuring 18 days of activities ranging from outdoor movies and caricature artists to puppies and...
View ArticleYSU professor co-directs National Endowment for the Humanities grant
Deborah Mower The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a $155,747 grant to establish a summer institute on moral psychology, co-directed and managed by Deborah Mower, professor of...
View ArticleThis Week at YSU, Aug. 17, 2015
Saturday, Aug. 15 to Tuesday, Sept. 1. YSU opens the 2015-16 academic year with Penguin Paradise Welcome Week, featuring 18 days of activities ranging from outdoor movies and caricature artists to...
View Article“Meet the Marching Pride” Aug. 29 in Stambaugh Stadium
Get in the Penguin spirit at the annual “Meet the Marching Pride” celebration 7:30 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29, in Stambaugh Stadium on the campus of Youngstown State University. The event that...
View ArticleAward-winning journalist Soledad O’Brien presents Centofanti Symposium
Soledad O’Brien Soledad O’Brien, award-winning journalist, documentarian, news anchor and producer, lectures 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16, in Stambaugh Auditorium as part of the Centofanti Symposium...
View ArticlePT grads post perfect passage on national exam
No one is perfect, except for Youngstown State University physical therapy graduates. All 23 students who received the Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from YSU in May 2015 passed the National...
View ArticleYSU MathFest team continues winning streak at D.C. competition
Participants in the 2015 MathFest are: Front Row, Crystal Mackey, Josiah Banks, Eric Shehadi, Emily Hoopes, Gabrielle Van Scoy, Jenna Wise and Monica Busser. Back row, Dr. Jacek Fabrykowski, Michael...
View ArticleFreshman class larger, academically stronger, more diverse
Youngstown State University today welcomed a freshman class that’s significantly larger in number and more diverse than last year and the strongest academically in the 107-year history of the...
View ArticleYSU Board of Trustees sets quarterly meetings Sept. 3, 8, 24
The Youngstown State University Board of Trustees conducts its next set of quarterly meetings on the following schedule. All meetings are in the Board of Trustees Meeting Room on the first floor of Tod...
View ArticleDana Faculty Trio opens Music at Noon season at Butler
Alice Wang The Dana Faculty Trio, featuring Dana School of Music faculty members Joseph Kromholz on violin, Alice Wang on clarinet and Cicilia Yudha on piano, performs two free concerts this week on...
View ArticleDana Wind Ensemble performs free outdoor concert Sept. 2
Stephen Gage The Youngstown Sate University Wind Ensemble performs a “Strike Up the Band 2015” concert 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 2, on Harrison Common Field on Walnut Street on the YSU campus. The free...
View Article$182,984 grant allows YSU to increase enrollment in online nursing program
Nancy Wagner The Ohio Board of Nursing has awarded $182,984 to Youngstown State University’s Department of Nursing to expand and increase enrollment in the department’s online Registered Nurse-Bachelor...
View ArticleThis Week at YSU, Aug. 31, 2015
Tuesday, Sept. 1, 1 to 2 p.m. Welcome Week activities conclude with YSU Day on the campus core. YSU joined the Ohio system of higher education on Sept. 1, 1967 and officially became known as Youngstown...
View ArticleSuperScholar names YSU’s Early Childhood Education a top online master’s program
Youngstown State University has made SuperScholar.org’s list of top online master’s programs in Early Childhood Education. The YSU program is ranked 37th in the nation. SuperScholar, an independent...
View ArticleFree Music at Noon concerts continue at Butler
Youngstown State University’s Dana School of Music, in collaboration with the Butler Institute of American Art, again presents free Music at Noon concerts this semester. Performances are Wednesdays at...
View ArticleYSU’s Stout receives national Outstanding Accounting Educator Award
From left to right: Julie A. Peters, PricewaterhouseCoopers, sponsor of the AAA Outstanding Accounting Educator Award; William (Bill) F. Messier, Jr., University of Nevada, Las Vegas; David E. Stout,...
View ArticleHarry Potter scholar lectures on campus Sept. 29; exhibit runs through Oct. 9
John Granger, who TIME magazine calls the “Dean of Harry Potter Scholars,” presents a free lecture 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29th in DeBartolo Hall on the campus of Youngstown State University. The lecture...
View ArticleRAs participate in active shooter training
YSU resident assistants undergo active shooter training at Cafaro House residence hall. Resident Assistants in the Cafaro House resident hall underwent training before the start of the Fall semester to...
View ArticleHail to the Chief…Robby Wells
Robby Wells in Kilcawley Center. The parade of presidential candidates to YSU started in August with…Robby Wells. Wells, former head football coach at Savannah State University in Georgia, visited...
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