From Pink Floyd-themed rooms to popular character sculptures, Ryan Johnson has been crafting larger-than-life pieces for high-profile clients all of h...
Rescuing Refugees: ‘One Person Really Can Make a Difference’ – Ashley Anderson
A 2007 graduate takes a break from her work as a United Nations consultant to feed and care for refugees. Ashley Anderson stood on the rocky shore of ...
Plastics Guru Has Screw and 3D Print Patents
In the iconic 1960s film “The Graduate,” Dustin Hoffman’s character gets succinct career advice from an old family friend. He says: “I want to say one...
Making History: From CIA Agent to Small-City Mayor
On the day she won her hard-fought battle to be the first woman and the first African American elected mayor of Douglasville, Ga., Rochelle Robinson f...
Penguin Mates: Fall, 2016
Since 2013, YSU Magazine has been sharing married YSU couples’ love stories in our popular “Penguin Mates” feature. The couples featured below were in...
Mission College celebrates two YSU success stories
Mission College, a program Sister Jerome Corcoran founded four years ago to help college students from working poor families complete their degrees, i...
Foster Parenting Inspires a New Career Path
Twenty children have called Kim Anderson “Mom” since she became a foster parent eight years ago, and the experience has radically changed her retireme...
Judge’s Memoirs Span Civil Rights Movement
Nathaniel R. Jones was nine years old, sitting front-and-center in what was then known as Youngstown’s “colored” YMCA, when he first...
Next Assignment: Psychological Operations in Qatar
Uncle Sam put his first call in to a young Kevin Petro in the 1970s, in a small corner of Ohio’s Trumbull County. A Hubbard native, Petro was a freque...
Penguin Mates, Spring 2016
Since the summer of 2013, YSU Magazine has been sharing married YSU couples’ love stories in our popular “Penguin Mates”column. The couples featured b...
Respiratory Care major wins scholarships from national and state scholarships
Karissa Kuneli, a Respiratory Care major at Youngstown State University, was recently awarded two highly selective state and national scholarships. Th...
Nursing major completes internship at Akron Children’s Hospital
Olivia Millsop, a junior nursing major at YSU, was one of 12 university students selected to serve the prestigious Akron Children’s Summer Pediatric R...