Master Sgt. Brett Miller, a Boardman native and Youngstown State University graduate, will perform for a hometown audience Thursday, Oct. 27 at Stamba...
Scenes and Sculptures: Shaping a Successful Art Career
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...
YSU alum deemed top elementary school principal in Ohio
Youngstown State University graduate Alexandra Nannicola has been named Ohio’s top elementary school principal by the Ohio Association of Elementary S...
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...
Wean Foundation President Channels Opportunity to Mahoning Valley Region
Jennifer Roller can pinpoint moments that have served as guideposts in her professional life. And they all involve people.From a YSU professor who inv...
FBI Agent’s Goal: Bringing Health, Healing to Los Angeles
Six thousand, seven hundred. It’s a number that Robert Clark takes very seriously. Clark, who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Criminal Justi...
Alumnus Leads News Coverage of High Court’s Same-Sex Marriage Ruling
Call it the “tweet” heard ‘round the world. At 10:01 a.m. on June 26, Chris Geidner believes he was the first journalist to tweet news of the Supreme ...