Dan Lewis, ’86 BSBA If you told Donald Lewis 30 years ago that he’d one day be a president of a multi-billion-dollar company, the YSU marketing ...

Alumni Spotlight: Introducing a New Therapy to Heal Failing Hearts
Dr. Amit Patel, ’93 BS in Biology, ’94 MS in Immunophysiology YSU alumnus Dr. Amit Patel is making medical history at the University of Utah School of...

Alumni Spotlight: Preparing the Nation for Climate Change
Paula Brooks, ’75 BA in Political Science, Pre-Law Paula Brooks was just stepping to the podium at a government energy conference in Chicago last Nove...

Penguin Mates, Winter 2014
Since the summer of 2013, YSU Magazine has been inviting married YSU couples to share their love stories in our new Penguin Mates column. The couples ...

Alumni Spotlight: After Cancer, Patient Care is her Passion
Chisa Echendu, MD, PhD – ’00 BS, ’06 MS in Chemistry Dr. Chisa Echendu fell in love with biochemical research when she was a YSU undergrad. She spent ...

Alumni Spotlight: Med School Professor Is Authority on Bioethics
Ronald Domen MD, ’72 AB in Pre-Med Dr. Ronald Domen’s dreams of a medical career began with childhood visits to his family doctor. He never envi...

Alumni Spotlight: Bringing Childbirth Back to Nature
Rachel Sieman, ’94 BS in Nursing YSU nursing grad Rachel Sieman has never liked the way modern medicine handles healthy, normal childbirth – the fetal...

YSU alum brings the newest big band sound to Vegas
Big Band music has always been a passion for David Perrico, so the YSU alumnus feels great about headlining at the iconic Stratosphere Casino, Hotel a...

Jazzed to join Dana faculty
What in the world can you do with a music degree? It was the question Alton Merrell asked Tony Leonardi when he met the renowned YSU Jazz Studies dire...

Getting a thrill watching students excel
Ballet lessons began at age seven, voice training a few years later, and by the time Kelly Scurich had reached her teens she was getting lead stage ro...

Sales top $1M for Classic Car Entrepreneur
Christopher Sondles grew up with a father and a brother who shared his passion for restoring classic ’57 Chevrolets. Now he’s making a living with tha...
From Gridiron to Dragstrip: A Championship in the Making
Ryan Martino, a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the Bitonte College of Health & Human Services and alumnus of the proud Penguin football program at YS...