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Around Campus
Ohio State Sen. Ray Miller gave the keynote address at
YSU’s first Diversity Leadership Recognition Celebration
in April at the D.D. & Velma Davis Education & Visitor’s
Center in Youngstown.
The event, sponsored by KeyBank, celebrated and
embraced diversity at YSU and in the community. Leaders
were recognized in three categories:
• Leader of Tomorrow: Christine Campf, president
of YSUnity; Keith Logan, YSU graduate assistant;
Carrington Moore, YSU urban intern student.
• Campus Leadership: Jean Engle, assistant director,
Marketing and Communications; Philip Ginnetti, dean,
Beeghly College of Education; Brenda Scarborough,
library media technical assistant; Rosa Maria Vega,
student services counselor/Federal Work Study Program
— Financial Aid and Scholarships.
• Community Leadership: The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King Planning Committee; YSU Foundation; Germaine
F. Bennett, retired assistant superintendent of human
resources, Youngstown City Schools; Marilyn Montes,
human resource director for Mirkin & Associates /dba
Comfort Keepers; Vincent E. Peterson, officer in charge,
Intensive Supervision Program, Trumbull County Adult
Supervision.
Ten Williamson College of Business Administration
undergraduate and graduate students, three faculty members
and one YSU staff member traveled to Sao Paulo, Brazil
as part of the WCBA’s Emerging Markets Initiative.
Their goal was to develop an understanding of the dynamic
business environment in Brazil and to gain insights into
the distinct business opportunities and challenges in this
emerging market.
During the 10-day stay in Sao Paulo, faculty and students
attended lectures at the University of Sao Paulo and toured
Brazilian-owned companies, the stock exchange and
futures market, as well as offices of Brazilian and U.S.
government agencies.
The Emerging Markets Initiative is funded by a federal
YSU faculty and students pose at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil.
From left, in front row: Natalya Schenck, R. Pandian, Ying Wang,
Linda Balogh, Bernadette Januszek, and Marcelo Felippe. Back row:
Suhad Awad, Aamir Iqbal, Daniel Maamoun, Dare Oluwasen, Jef
Davis, Ram Kasuganti, Dustin Kudler and Severina Dimova.
grant sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education
and the WCBA. Jef Davis, director of the YSU Center
for International Studies and Programs, joined the tour to
establish connections with other universities in the Sao Paulo
area and to help recruit students to YSU.
WYSU 88.5 FM, YSU’s public radio station, raised a
record $102,058 during its recently completed spring pledge
drive. Nearly 1,000 listeners contributed to the station during
the drive, including 113 new members.
“We had a lot of help,” said Gary Sexton, station director.
“The concern for our continued success expressed by so much
of the community inspires all of us. This great staff and I will
continue to serve the wonderful region the best we can.”
Corporate support for the drive was provided by Go Ahead
Tours, Internet Data Management Inc. (IDMI.net), Butler
Wick & Co. Inc., and The First Unitarian Universalist Church
of Youngstown, all of which provided partial matches during
drive time pledge periods. Visit www.wysu.org.
Student Success
Two YSU students have again
won prestigious national awards.
Tyler Drombosky of Boardman,
a junior math major, received the
Goldwater Scholarship, while Chad
J. Miller of Poland was awarded a
fellowship from the Honor Society
of Phi Kappa Phi.
This marks the fourth consecutive Tyler Drombosky
year that YSU students have received
the Goldwater Scholar and the Phi
Kappa Phi fellowship. YSU’s four
Goldwater awards are the most by
any public university in Northeast
Ohio during that period.
“Our success as an institution in
these two awards is a tribute to the
students at YSU and to the faculty
who mentor and guide them along
Chad Miller
their chosen academic path,” said
Ron Shaklee, director of YSU’s University Scholars and
Honors Program.
The Goldwater program was designed to foster and
encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in the fields
of mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering. The
award is $7,500 a year.
“The faculty at YSU is truly incredible,” Drombosky said.
“They are always there to help me and motivate me to be the
best possible student. Without them, I know that none of what
I have accomplished would have been possible.”
Miller is among only 60 students nationwide selected to
receive the $5,000 Phi Kappa Phi fellowship. He graduated
summa cum laude from YSU in December 2007 with a
bachelor’s degree in philosophy and psychology and currently
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