YSUpdate welcomes the following faculty who are new to YSU this year:

Kathleen Aspiranti Assistant Professor Counseling, Special Education, School Psychology

Cara A. Carramusa Instructor Physical Therapy

Carrie R. Jackson Assistant Professor Counseling, Special Education. School Psychology

James Juergensen Assistant Professor Psychology

Lisbeth K. Justice Assistant Professor Psychology

When Ed Villone started working as a security guard for Strouss department store in Boardman in 1979, he didn’t know it would be just the beginning of a successful career in criminal justice. Villone is now commander and coordinator of the YSU Police Academy in Cushwa Hall. In 1980 he joined the Struthers Police Department as a reserve police officer and civilian police dispatcher. Later, he served as a patrol officer for the Poland Township Police Department, and then returned to Struthers, where he retired as a police captain in 2006.

The first entering class of the newly established Honors College at YSU was formally welcomed by current Honors students and alumni at a “Passing of the Torch” ceremony and picnic on Monday, Aug. 17, at the Pollock House. The new freshman class, otherwise known as the Honors College XXIII, received the torch from the previous class of Scholars and Honors students. Students started at Cafaro House and processed carrying the new honors college banner, and their academic college flags, to the Pollock House for the ceremony.

Kerry Meyers, director of YSU's first-year engineering program, brought together incoming freshmen engineering students  during IGNITE for a unique project - create letters to spell out the word "ENGINEERING" using recycled newspapers and cardboard. Each team of students was assigned a letter  - "E" "N" "G", etc.