Joseph Ethen, ’97 BSAS The pain was so bad, Joseph Ethen could only get up to eat, use the restroom and endure grueling physical therapy. “Other...
Phi Kappa Phi honoree
Daniel DeMaiolo’s work as a Phi Kappa Phi member at YSU is now paying off and helping him earn financial help in grad school. DeMaiolo was recently ho...
Monitoring African oil fields – in Texas
Hollie A. Kelleher, ’98 BE ExxonMobil has hundreds of oil wells churning out crude on the plains of Chad in north central Africa. The landlocked, mos...
Providing a health care ‘safety net’ in Pittsburgh
Wilford A. Payne, ’73 BA Wilford Payne was a young man, not long out of graduate school, when he landed the top job at a Pittsburgh nonprofit ca...
Around the world with Disney
Larry A. Davis, ’76 BFA It all started with an order for 50 bronze Mickey Mouse statues. Larry Davis was a graduate student living in California when ...
Teaching children ‘how to think, not what to think’
Suzanne Barbati, ’95 For decades, McCrory’s five-and-dime store attracted families to downtown Youngtown for lunch-counter treats and thrifty shopping...
Winning the ‘Super Bowl for nurses’
Christian Brienik ’89 AAS, ‘92 BSAS When Metro Health Life Flight in Cleveland offered Christian Brienik a position as a flight nurse spec...
Unrelenting determination
Stricken with debilitating hearing and speech impairments at the age of three, Darian Scott spent most of his early years isolating himself from the w...