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Ohio Means Internships & Co-ops (OMIC4)

The North Eastern Ohio Education Association Day, or NEOEA Day, is a day in which educators of all grade levels from this area of the state of Ohio (northeast quadrant) attend professional development workshops to increase their knowledge and skills to benefit the students in their classrooms.

Women in STEM fields STEM careers offer a lot of opportunity, and growth within different fields. These opportunities and possibilities are sometimes not shared equally between all people. STEM careers are generally male dominant fields. Are women inadequate of performing these tasks?

LG Chem Michigan

Biography:

LGESMI develops and manufactures large lithium-ion polymer batteries for electric vehicle and energy storage applications.

Tayah Turocy is an alumna from Wadsworth, Ohio. She graduated in May of 2018 with a degree in chemical engineering and minored in chemistry and mathematics. 

Kara Bischoff is a senior from New Castle, Pennsylvania, majoring in chemical engineering. She had an internship with the joint venture between General Motors and LG Chem. Kara was recently named the 2020 YSU STEM Intern of the Year. 

Kristen Thompson is a YSU alumna from Youngstown, Ohio. She graduated in May 2020 with a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering, Associate of Arts, and a minor in mathematics. She will be graduating this weekend with a Master’s in Electrical Engineering.

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The STEM Expo went virtual this year. However, this didn’t stop companies and students from showing up and meeting one another virtually to converse about potential internships, co-ops and jobs.

Michael Moreland is a junior, from Hudson, Ohio, majoring in Civil and Construction Engineering Technology. Recently, Michael was a recipient of the Ohio Contractors Association (OCA) Hall of Fame Scholarship.

Dr. Abdu Arslanyilmaz is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at YSU. He is originally from Turkey. Dr. Arslanyilmaz received his bachelors and masters degrees from the University of Missouri, and received his PhD at Texas A&M University. After completing his PhD, Dr.

Dr. Tom Oder, Professor of Physics, is currently serving as Program Director for the National Science Foundation. He is originally from Uganda, but now he resides in Youngstown (Liberty township).

Dr. Michael Butcher is a Professor of Biology at YSU.

Dr. Pedro Cortes is a Materials Science and Chemical Engineering Associate Professor at YSU. He is originally from Mexico City in Mexico.

Continuing our focus on Forensic Science, two YSU Alums tell how their experince in the Forensic Science program change their lives for the better.

YSU STEM would like to welcome our two newest faculty, Associate Professors Robert Wardle III and Susan Clutter.

YSU is more than happy and excited to invite its newest member to the STEM family. Welcome Forensic Science! We also want to spotlight the amazing Forensic Science Club and their service to STEM.

The Clarence Smith Mineral Museum is open to visitors- by appointment! Contact the Museum in advance to schedule an appointment. Face masks are required at all times while in the museum.

YSU STEM would like to acknowledge the graduate students who successfully completed a thesis defense or project over the summer semester. 

Chemistry Graduate Students

Michael J. Juhasz, Ph.D., Materials Science & Engineering, 

Even as the nationwide shut down unfolded in the spring of 2020, the three Mechanical Engineering Senior Design Competition Teams remained active, though virtually. Here is a synopsis of each:

I. NASA Lunabotics Rover Design

Fall 2020 STEM Expo: We’ve gone virtual!

Brea Tinsley, a senior majoring in Biochemistry and minoring in Spanish and Mathematics, spent the past summer at Rutgers working for the RCSB Protein Data Bank. Brea's project this summer was focused on the structural and mutant analysis of SARS-CoV-2 proteins.

Brea Tinsley, a senior majoring in Biochemistry and minoring in Spanish and Mathematics, spent the past summer at Rutgers working for the RCSB Protein Data Bank. Brea's project this summer was focused on the structural and mutant analysis of SARS-CoV-2 proteins.

Zach Mazur, a recent graduate with a Masters of Science in Mechanical Engineering from YSU and a Bachelor of Arts in Physics from Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, PA, has finalized the research necessary to ensure the new wind tunnel in the Flow Physics Lab was ready to

It is almost unbelievable that we just finished our first two weeks of the 20-21 academic year. In a blink of an eye, we went from closing the College due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all the way to starting the new academic year.