This Week at YSU, Nov. 13, 2017
Monday, Nov. 13 through Thursday, Nov. 16. The YSU Poetry Center and Etruscan Press is coordinating a four-day outreach program featuring noted authors Remica L. Bingham and Aaron Poochigian.
Tuesday, Nov. 14, 1 p.m. Rivka Neriya-Ben Shahar, a senior lecturer at Sapir Academic College in Sderot, Israel, lectures in the Jones Room of Kilcawley Center.
Tuesday, Nov. 14. The men’s and women’s basketball teams tip off their home seasons at Beeghly Center. The women play Kent State at 5:15 p.m., followed by the men, who take on Fraciscan at 7:35 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 15, 7 p.m. The Fall 2017 schedule of the Lecture Series on Energy and the Environment concludes with a presentation from Andrew Barbour of the U.S. Geological Survey. The lecture is in Room B100 of Cushwa Hall on campus.
Thursday, Nov. 16, 6 p.m. The finals of YSU’s Three Minute Thesis competition is in the Presidential Suites of Kilcawley Center on campus.
Friday, Nov. 17, 5 to 7 p.m. Opening reception for three exhibits featuring the art of several Youngstown State University in the McDonough Museum of Art on campus.
Friday, Nov. 17, 6:30 p.m. YSU graduate, ROTC officer and Vietnam veteran John M. MacIntosh Jr. receives the 2017 Cincinnatus Award at the annual Veterans and ROTC Alumni Reunion dinner in the Ohio Room of Kilcawley Center on campus. Other weekend events include 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 18, tailgate brunch at the Veterans Resource Center on campus and noon, Military Appreciation football game in Stambaugh Stadium.
Friday and Saturday, Nov. 17 and 18, 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Nov. 19, 2 p.m. University Theater presents the rock musical “Spring Awakening,” in Bliss Hall’s Ford Theater.
Saturday, Nov. 18, noon. YSU finishes out the football regular season vs Missouri State in Stambaugh Stadium.
Sunday, Nov. 19, 1 p.m. Eleven students in YSU’s Dana School of Music match skills in the annual Dana Young Artist Competition in the Edward W. Powers Auditorium at the DeYor Performing Arts Center in downtown Youngstown. The competition, which includes vocal and instrumental performances, is free and open to the public.