STEM Blog

Check out everything the Ward Beecher Planetarium has to offer this October! Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month with the show Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico and stop by for the spooky Halloween Show. The programs are free and open to the public.

Techie Camp Nordson, TECH CORPS and YSU STEM offered a free Techie Camp this summer from June 29 to July 3.

Patricia Johnston, David Lineman, Carl G Johnston & Laura Leff: Characterization, sources and ecological risk assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in long-term contaminated riverbank sediments; Environ Earth Sci DOI

As some of our most beloved faculty and staff retire this summer, YSU STEM wants to take the time to acknowledge those who have been exceptional. This summer, we will highlight two of our faculty as they continue on to the next chapter of their lives.

On February 12, 19 schools and over 140 students showed off their math skills at the 32nd annual MATHCOUNTS Competition. MATHCOUNTS is a competition for students in grades 6,7, and 8 sponsored by the National Society of Professional Engineers.

Michael Crescimanno, Tom Oder, and Jim Andrews, Professors, and Chuanhong Zhou, Research Associate, Physics & Astronomy, co-authored a recent peer-reviewed paper with five YSU undergraduates and two faculty from Case Western Reserve University, titled, “Chromatic control in coe

What do developers look at when they are fixing a bug or adding new features into a software system? What if we could help developers while they work solely based on their eye movements? How do novices differ from experts while they read and understand source code?

From left to right: Coach Penny Manfredi, Matthew Stuve, Captain Abhijeet Mulgund, Angela Kaissieh, Rosie Ries, and Captain Nicholas Brockman.

June

Boy Scouts working on their Merit Badges.

A group of students learning on-site in the woods.

America Makes is a great experience no matter your age or industry you come from, but on Thursday, September 25, 2014 one company, in conjunction with America Makes and the Youngstown Business Incubator, brought the first ever Fastener Symposium to Youngstown to explore the details about what 3D

The new robotics lab on the first floor of Meshel Hall was set up during the spring 2014 semester. The lab, which consists of desktop computers that are equipped with various types of software, will allow students to program Lego and Arduino robots.

Assistant professor of materials chemistry Ruigang Wang is conducting research to help improve vehicle catalytic conversion systems thanks to a $200,640 grant from the National Science Foundation.

1) Diggins TP, and RG Catterlin. 2014 (in press). Topographic patterns in forest composition and diversity on slopes of Zoar Valley Canyon, western New York State, USA. Northeastern Naturalist, Volume 21.

September

In conjunction with Dr. Rick Blob at Clemson University and a few other researchers, Dr.

Dr. Pedro Cortes, an assistant professor of civil, environmental, and chemical engineering, has been at YSU for the last few years, but with his new additions to his growing list of publications, we thought a formal introduction to this STEMian would help to show what YSU STEM is all about.

The Chestnut Room full of spectators.

Ohio Room filled with people.

June 

March