Youngstown State University

Emily Henline of Austintown, a senior at Youngstown State University, has been selected a semifinalist in the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student Program and hopes to go to South Korea to earn a master's degree. YSU's first semi-finalist since 2016, Henline's application is now under review by the Fulbright Commission, and she will be notified this spring if she is a finalist.

Isabella Davis, a master's degree student in English, will have four opportunities to share her work with scholarly communities. The Sacramento, Calif., native who earned bachelor's degrees in Political Science and Spanish at YSU, has been accepted to present her research in linguistic anthropology at four academic conferences this year. Her work focuses on a recent grassroots proposal in Argentina and other southern cone countries of South America to use the letter "e" in Spanish for individuals who do not identify within the current binary system of gender (i.e. amige instead of amigo or amiga). Davis' research analyzes comments made on social media related to the "e" proposal. Davis said she next hopes to continue exploring the uses and effects of gender-inclusive language by speaking with members of the gender non-conforming community in Latin America.

The Honors College at Youngstown State University has recognized several students as part of the Honors Student of the Week initiative for the second half of the Fall 2019 semester. The college launched the program earlier this year to recognize academic excellence, community engagement and student success. The Honors Student of the Week is announced each Sunday in the college's weekly e-newsletter sent to Honors College students, staff and faculty and also posted on the YSU website. There are currently 1,266 students in the college.

The Honors College at Youngstown State University has launched a new initiative to recognize academic excellence, community engagement and student success. Each week, the college names an "Honors Student of the Week" as a way to share stories about student achievements. The Honors Student of the Week is announced each Sunday in the college's weekly e-newsletter sent to Honors College students, staff and faculty and also posted on the YSU website. There are currently 1,266 students in the college.

A team of Youngstown State University Civil Engineering students won the 2019 Student Design Competition of the Northeast Section of the Ohio Water Environment Association. The team will move on to the Water Environment Federation's Student Design Competition at the WEF Technical Exhibition and Conference in September in Chicago.

Phi Kappa Phi recently announced the recipients of a 2019 Fellowship. The prestigious $8,500 fellowships were awarded to 50 students nationwide.

YSU students have been recognized with a variety of awards presented by the Department of Geography and Urban-Regional Studies. The accolades were distributed at the 27th annual departmental awards dinner at the end of the 2018-19 academic year.

Five students receiving Master of Accountancy degrees at Youngstown State University's Spring Commencement earlier this month are the recipients of SAP Appreciation Awards. Students are being recognized for satisfactory completion of a program of study by the SAP product portfolio, as offered by YSU. SAP, headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, is the market leader in enterprise application software and serves 437,000 customers in 180 countries, including 92 percent of Forbes Global 2000 companies and 98 of the world's 100 most valued brands.

Youngstown State University students are working at an array of nonprofits through a summer internship program designed to provide students with career-related work experience in a nonprofit or public sector organization. The program, offered through the YSU Center for Nonprofit Leadership and funded by the Raymond Wean Foundation, runs from May 20 to Aug. 9.

YSU student Elise Eckman has been awarded a prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation that will finance PhD studies in Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University starting this fall.

Five YSU students have been awarded the YSU Pin Award, recognizing graduating seniors who have achieved academic success and demonstrated outstanding leadership, motivation and creativity in university and community activities. This year's recipients include Diana Bodrogi-Podoaba, Tyler Carver, Ashley Labatte, Lexi Rager and Jenna Roesch.

YSU students were honored with a variety of individual awards and scholarships at the annual Student Awards Banquet.

A dozen YSU students in the College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics studied abroad in Ambergris Caye, Belize, as part of a new course called Ecosystems Field Ecology.

The YSU chaper of Phi Kappa Phi inducted more than 80 students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members at the annual spring initiation ceremony.

The world premiere of an orchestral piece composed by YSU students in the Dana School of Music will be featured at a Gala Concert Wednesday, April 24, in celebration of the school's 150th anniversary.

The YSU Williamson College of Business Administration's chapter of Beta Alpha Psi earned first place at the Beta Alpha Psi Best Practices Midwest regional meeting and compete internationally this summer.

The staff of the Jambar, Youngstown State University's student newspaper, was honored for having the Best News Coverage among college newspapers in Ohio for the 2017-18 academic year.

YSU students in the Williamson College of Business Administration finished first in sportsmanship and collegiality at the Ohio HR Games at Ashland University. The games were a Jeopardy-style competition where teams had the opportunity to test their Human Resource knowledge against students from other universities in Ohio. The YSU team placed third overall.

Six graduate students have been named finalists in the Three Minute Thesis research competition. 3MT is a competition that requires graduate students to explain their research in three minutes.

YSU social work student Kenna Rearick of Beaver Falls, Pa., has been named Student of the Year by the National Association of Social Workers Ohio Region 4. The award was presented at NASW's awards reception earlier this month.

YSU students, along with alumni, faculty from the YSU Dana School of Music, performed the musical orchestration for the singing of America the Beautiful by Chloe and Halle during Super Bowl pregame ceremonies on Feb. 3.

Youngstown State University presented MLK Service Leadership Awards during the Martin Luther King Jr. Observance in January. Awards presented included MLK Emerging Leader Award, MLK Student Leadership Award, MLK Campus Leadership Award and MLK Community Leadership Award.

YSU Dental Hygiene students placed first in the Informative Poster Presentation competition at the Ohio Dental Hygienists Association 2018 Annual Session in suburban Columbus.

The Beeghly Fellows program provides students with a paid fellowship working with the Ohio Small Business Development Center at YSU, made possible by an endowment established at the YSU Foundation.

Pediatric opioid addiction, anxiety and the structural integrity of a campus parking deck were among the student research topics featured at Youngstown State University's annual Diversity of Scholarship event March 14.

Four students in the Williamson College of Business Administration are among a select group of students across the country who have completed the training to join the University Innovation Fellows program by Stanford University's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design.

Sixty-five Youngstown State University students were recognized for scholarship, leadership and other achievements recently at YSU's annual Student Awards Banquet. The event was sponsored by the university's Student Government, Student Experience and Student Activities.

Youngstown State University Theater major Molly B. Lukehart has been selected to serve as student speaker for YSU's Fall Commencement ceremonies, 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 17, in Beeghly Center on campus.

Six Youngstown State University students competed in the final round of the Three Minute Thesis competition Nov. 16 in Kilcawley Center on the YSU campus.

A Youngstown State University student was featured in a solo vocal performance when the Dana School of Music Symphony Orchestra performed a concert, titled "Beethoven's Fateful Fifth," at the DeYor Performing Arts Center in Youngstown on Nov. 2. Stephen L. Gage, Director of Bands & Orchestra and professor of Music, directed the concert.