Athlete + intern = a perfect pairing Christian Turner isn’t old enough to drink wine, but that didn’t stop him from using his business skills to market it. Turner, a 20-year-old Marketing Management major from Cincinnati, got an up-close view of winemaking operations this past summer at Luva Bella Winery in Lowellville through YSU’s Monus Entrepreneurship Fellows program. His project—promoting Pete’s Red and Pete’s White, two local wines named after none other than Pete the Penguin. With fewer than a dozen schools in the country having their own wine label, the Monus Fellows program offered

HOMECOMING Emmy nominations include former YSU student Former Dana School of Music student Derek Dixie is no stranger to coming home to Youngstown. You may recall how the LA-based musician curated an ensemble of YSU faculty, students and alumni to provide the orchestration for the singing of America the Beautiful at the Super Bowl earlier this year. Dixie now celebrates another “homecoming” of sorts with the news that he has earned his first-ever Emmy nomination for his Outstanding Music Direction for the film HOMECOMING: A Film by Beyoncé. The movie tells the in-depth story of Beyoncé's