Around Campus competency testing solution. Jessica Sferra, a senior business administration major, will assist SenSource, a technology company that provides traffic and vehicle counting solutions and environmental sensors, with its marketing initiatives. • Arianne Morris, a senior business administration major, is interning with Syncro Medical Innovations, which has developed a unique magnetically guided feeding tube. • Courtney Vitullo, a senior management information systems major, will work directly with Youngstown Business Incubator to promote new entrepreneurial programs with YSU and social media applications. Betty Jo Licata, WCBA dean, said the program gives students invaluable experience with entrepreneurial companies. “These internships support the professional development of our students and their contributions to the success of our valley entrepreneurs,” she said.
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Students ‘Light the Wick’ with New Show
YSU telecommunication students are producing a weekly taped program, titled “Light the Wick,” that spotlights people and events in Youngstown’s arts corridor. Producing the show teaches what cannot be found in a book: experience. “Our students are on a one-week production turn-around schedule, which is extraordinary because live-to-tape TV is high pressure and deadline-sensitive,” said Fred Owens, communications professor and supervisor for the show. “Students
Voice of the Scrappers YSU student John Brown was the voice of the Mahoning Valley Scrappers baseball team this summer as the official game announcer at Eastwood Field. It was an exciting season, as the team came one game short of winning the New York Penn League championship. Brown is a senior communications major from Warren who had worked as a Scrappers batboy and clubhouse employee since he was 14. The Scrappers organization has already offered the position to Brown for next season. He plans to pursue a graduate degree next year, but he said he’ll continue with the Scrappers if his graduate school plans allow. 8
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become extremely competent and capable problem-solvers, and it gets them out of their comfort zones.” New episodes of “Light the Wick” are uploaded Friday evenings to www.lightthewick.blip.tv., and the program can be seen on the Fine and Performing Arts homepage, http:// fpa.ysu.edu/index.shtml. Telecommunications students are also working with the YSU Athletics Department on a new project that provides TV coverage and live broadcasts of YSU Olympic-style sports, and in September YSU became the first Horizon League school to stream a live broadcast of a game (women’s volleyball) from the league’s Web site.
Sophomores Named Emerging Scholars, Others Win Awards and Honors
YSU sophomores Brian Garcar and Justin McIntyre, who were presented national Phi Kappa Phi Emerging Scholar Awards for 2009, are just two of the many YSU students who won recognition recently. Garcar is an integrated math secondary education major; McIntyre is a political science and criminal justice major. Both are Leslie H. Cochran University Scholars. This was the third year for the national Phi Kappa Phi Emerging Scholar award competition and the third year that YSU students have qualified for the recognition. Senior Justin Boehm, a respiratory care major, was recognized with the Humility of Mary Health Partners “Excellence in Action” award for his outstanding patient care and dedication. The Canfield student is the first non-employee in HMHP’s history to be recognized with this honor. Boehm was nominated by a patient he worked with in the Sleep Diagnostic Laboratory at St. Elizabeth Boardman Health Center while on clinical rotation last summer. YSU also continued its winning streak at MathFest, held this summer in Portland, Ore. Four students YSU sophomores Brian Garcar, left, took home “outstandand Justin McIntyre were presented ing oral presentation” national Phi Kappa Phi Emerging awards, marking the Scholar Awards for 2009. fifth consecutive year that YSU students have won four or more honors. No other school has ever won more than three awards in a single year. Award-winners this year were Matthew Alexander of Espyville, Lisa Curll of Columbiana, Patrick Walker of Struthers and Moriah Wright of Ashtabula. Alexander won an MMA best speaker award at the event last year.