Youngstown State University

Students were honored at the YSU Annual Student Awards Banquet earlier this spring for their work as Presidential Mentors, a student leadership team that meets monthly with President Jim Tressel to provide input on critical campus issues.

ELP is a dynamic leadership development program that emphasizes leadership being a life-long journey involving self-discovery, collaborative relationships and empowering community.

Dozens of students were presented awards, scholarships and other honors at the YSU Annual Student Awards Banquet earlier this spring.

The YSU Sokolov Honors College Transcribing Club recently held a joint transcribe-a-thon with honors students at University of Texas at Arlington. In all, 61 students from both schools transcribed about 400 documents in two hours. The collaboration resulted from the National Collegiate Honors Council conference last fall. The YSU Honors College's transcribing efforts began in August 2020 as a way for students to volunteer virtually while building community. Students transcribe documents through the Smithsonian and Library of Congress and have collectively transcribed more than 19,000 documents since inception.

The YSU Dana School of Music presents the opera L'amico Fritz Friday, Saturday and Sunday, April 22, 23 and 24 in Spotlight Theater in Bliss Hall on campus.

Student members of YSU sororities and fraternities earned a variety of awards at the event in Stambaugh Auditorium.

The Order of Omega was founded in 1959 by a group of fraternity men who felt that individuals in the Greek community should be recognized for their service to both the fraternity system and the university.

Students on Youngstown State University's Concrete Canoe and Steel Bridge teams continue their winning ways, capturing first place in regional competitions and qualifying again for the national tournament.

Mural posters created by students in YSU's Department of Visual & Dramatic Arts are featured in a new exhibit in Bliss Hall's Judith Rae Solomon Gallery.

Nine Youngstown State University students read poems 6 p.m. Thursday, April 7, at McDonough Museum of Art to celebrate National Poetry Month: "The reading will take place in the McDonough galleries surrounded by student artwork - such a good pairing," said Claudia Berlinski, McDonough director.

YSU students perform alongside renowned guitarist, composer, recording artist Mimi Fox.

The Youngstown State University Chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma, hosted by the Williamson College of Business Administration, installed 54 business students during induction ceremonies on the YSU campus.

Fifteen students in YSU's Civil and Construction Engineering Technology program participated in the12th Annual Builders Association of Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania Estimating Competition.

Fans of Harry Potter are sure to get a hoot out of University Theatre's final show of the 2021-22 season - "Puffs, Or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic."

Three-Minute Thesis, presented by the YSU College of Graduate Studies, requires students to explain their research in three minutes in a language appropriate to a non-specialist audience.

Big Blitz, a YSU student trio that performs dance and groove-based music, are among the featured guests at YSU's Dana School of Music's Saxophone Day and Jazz Day Saturday, March 19, in Bliss Hall, on campus.

Five YSU students were among nearly 3,000 competitors from 427 colleges and universities in the Putnam Mathematical Competition, the preeminent mathematics competition for undergraduate college students in the United States and Canada.

YSU outperformed teams from Yale, Stanford, UNC-Chapel Hill, University of Florida, West Point and the Naval Academy in the national Ethics Bowl championship.

It's that time of year again, and YSU's Lariccia School of Accounting and Finance is ready! The school is again this year offering free income tax preparation services via the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program.

Students at Youngstown State University will make presentations at the History Across the Humanities conference.

"I am happy to share this bit of Golden Age musical theatre with our own greater Youngstown community as we endeavor to bring The Music Man's cast album to life on the Ford Theater stage," said Maria Fenty Denison, YSU lecturer and coordinator of University Theatre. "Our concert version has retained a bit of plot, some staging and a few dashes of choreography just to spice things up."

Youngstown State University students named to the Dean's List for Fall Semester 2021.

Youngstown State University students earning a perfect 4.0 grade point average have been named to the President's List for Fall Semester 2021.

A group of YSU students participated in the Opening Minds through Art program at Danridge's Burgundi Manor long-term care facility on Youngstown's East Side.

Three students in Youngstown State University's capstone course in Geography presented the findings of their study on ways to revitalize the Village of Wellsville in Columbiana County.

More than 600 students were awarded undergraduate and advanced degrees and certificates at Youngstown State University's Fall Commencement.

"In the jazz combo program we explore the relationship between improvisation and composition. Each generation of jazz musicians develops their own unique take on the music. It's exciting to hear the fresh voices of these young musicians emerge."

Eleven business students in the Youngstown State University Williamson College of Business Administration were recognized for completing the Ohio Export Internship Program at YSU.

For the sixth consecutive year, the Ethics Bowl team at Youngstown State University won the Central State Regional Ethics Bowl contest, sponsored by the national Association for Practical and Professional Ethics.

Five business students of the Williamson College of Business Administration at Youngstown State University are serving as John D. Beeghly Fellows for the 2021 Fall Semester.