YSU student Rachel Henderson tends to children in a village in Mexico during a study and service trip in 2007. An art auction is being held on campus on Nov. 20 to help raise funds for nursing students to make a return trip to Mexico in April 2010 and for nursing, criminal justice and social work students to go to Nigeria in January 2010. Read more about the auction in this edition of YSU News Briefs.

• Auction raises funds for student trips to Mexico, Nigeria
• WYSU–FM sets another record with fall fund drive
• Expert on Islam speaks Tuesday on campus
• Music at Noon concerts set
• Pianist is New Music Society guest artist
• 600 students attend Business 2020 this week
  

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Monday, Nov. 2, 8 p.m. The Dana School of Music's Jazz Ensemble 1 performs in the Chestnut Room of Kilcawley Center on the YSU campus.

Tuesday, Nov. 3, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Free screenings of blood pressure, bone density, blood sugar and more will be available at the 5^th Annual Health Fair at the Andrews Student Recreation and Wellness Center. The fair is sponsored by the Junior YSU Nursing Community Class. Participating agencies include Forum Health, HMHP, Youngstown VA, Planned Parenthood, District Three of the Ohio Nurses Association and Wellness One.

Tuesday, Nov. 3, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Bruce B. Lawrence, professor and chair of the Department of Religion at Duke University, presents a free lecture entitled "Islam in the Public Square: Minority Perspectives from Africa and Asia" in the Ohio Room of Kilcawley Center. See News Brief below.

Tuesday, Nov. 3. The YSU Board of Trustees meets in the President's Conference Room on the second floor of Tod Hall – 2 p.m. Ad Hoc Subcommittee for Negotiations and Collective Bargaining, and 3 p.m. Investment Subcommittee

Tuesday, Nov. 3, 7 p.m. Penguins volleyball team plays Akron in Beeghly Center. The team also plays West Virginia 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8 in Beeghly.

Wednesday, Nov. 4, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. YSU's 12th Annual Research Recognition Luncheon will be in the Ohio Room of Kilcawley Center. Awards will be given to faculty members and academic departments for exceptional accomplishments in research. This year's awards ceremony comes on the heels of a record–breaking year for the university. Faculty and staff garnered $11.7 million in grants during fiscal year 2009, up more than 70 percent from 2008. Since 2000, the amount of grants awarded to YSU faculty and staff has nearly quadrupled.

Wednesday Nov. 4 to Friday, Nov. 6. Pianist Avguste Antonov is the guest artist of the New Music Society, appearing with the Dana Composers Ensemble. See News Brief below for details.

Wednesday, Nov. 4, 12:15 p.m. New Music Society performs a free Music at Noon concert in the Butler Institute of American Art.

Thursday, Nov. 5, 9 a.m. to noon. Six hundred high school students attend Business 2020 in Kilcawley Center. See News Brief. 

Friday, Nov. 6, 4:30 p.m. The YSU swimming and diving squad takes on Cleveland State, Canisius and Malone in the Beeghly Natatorium. 

Friday, Nov. 6, 7 p.m. The WYSU–FM 88.5 Annual Folk Festival Concert will be held at Peaberry''s in Kilcawley Center on the YSU campus. The event will be hosted by Charles Darling and feature The Newlanders. Admission is free. For more information, visit www.wysu.org. For more information on the Newlanders, visit http://www.newlanders.com/.  

Auction raises funds for sudent trips to Mexico, Nigeria
An art auction that will help raise money for Youngstown State University nursing, criminal justice and social work students to study and serve in Mexico and Nigeria is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 20, in the Ohio Room of Kilcawley Center.

More than 100 pieces of art from artists such as Andrew Wyeth, Slava Brodinsky and Robert Lui will be auctioned. Preview starts at 6 p.m., with the auction commencing at 7 p.m.

Proceeds will help fund a one–week trip to Mexico that the YSU Department of Nursing is planning in April 2010 and a two–week trip to Nigeria that the Department of Nursing and the Department of Criminal Justice and Forensic Science are planning in January 2010. The trips are being planned in collaboration with the Ohio Medical Clinic Missionaries.

"It's a huge and expensive undertaking, but the benefits for our students are just tremendous," said Pamela McHugh Schuster, YSU professor of nursing. "As a team, it's exciting, rewarding and a great educational experience."

This will be the third trip to Mexico for YSU nursing students. Students, faculty and others on the trip set up a medical clinic to help villagers with an array of health issues. "They learn nursing care in the most primitive of conditions," she said.

The trip to Dikenafai, Nigeria, will include nursing, criminal justice and social work students. Nursing students will organize and operate a medical outpatient clinic. Criminal justice students, led by assistant professor Christian Onwudiwe, will compare the criminal justice systems in the United States with that of Nigeria. Dikenafai is Onwudiwe's hometown.

Schuster said she and Onwudiwe hope to establish relations with Imo State University in Nigeria to explore possible collaborations between the two institutions, such as faculty and student exchanges.

The trip to Nigeria itself costs about $2,500 per person, including transportation, housing, food and medical supplies, Schuster said.

Admission to the art auction is $15, or $5 for university students, and includes light refreshments and a cash bar. For more information or to purchase tickets, contact the YSU Department of Nursing at 330–941–3293. Checks made payable to Ohio Medical Clinic Missionaries may be sent to the YSU Department of Nursing, One University Plaza, Youngstown, OH 44555.     

The auction is sponsored by the Bitonte College of Health and Human Services, the Center for International Studies and Programs, and Ohio Medical Clinic Missionaries.

The auction will be conducted by Marlin Fine Auctions and Creative Events, marlinart.com. Purchases made on the Web site will be credited to YSU by entering the code, 63750, at checkout.

WYSU–FM sets another record with fall fund drive

  WYSU 88.5 FM

In addition, a record 1,252 listeners contributed to the station during the drive, including 174 new members.

"I''m very gratified that so many people have chosen to support this community service, especially considering the economic climate," said WYSU director Gary Sexton.  "The community can continue to count on WYSU–FM for the highest quality news and information programming on radio, as well as excellent music programs."

Ed Goist, WYSU development officer, added: "We are humbled, inspired and honored by the exceptional generosity of our listeners, volunteers and sponsors. They always come through for us."  

The week–long fund drive featured many giveaways and other incentives and challenges, including daily prize packages, a new member prize basket, and a Pennsylvania member prize package. All of the prize packages included new HD Radios. Listeners Tim McGarry and Nancy Marsh of Hubbard won the grand prize, a trip for two to Ireland.

Corporate and foundation support for the drive was provided by Go Ahead Tours, Internet Data Management Inc., Park Vista Retirement Community, The Ruth H. Beecher Charitable Trust, and The Beeghly Family Foundation, all of which provided matches during pledge periods.

Expert on Islam speaks Tuesday on campus
Bruce B. Lawrence, professor and chair of the Department of Religion at Duke University, presents a free lecture entitled "Islam in the Public Square: Minority Perspectives from Africa and Asia" from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 3 in the Ohio Room of Kilcawley Center on the campus of Youngstown State University.

The lecture is sponsored by the YSU Center for Islamic Studies.Lawrence is one of the foremost authorities on Islam. His numerous books and articles about Islam and Muslims provide insightful treatments of a wide range of issues. He will be presenting the results of his research conducted in Egypt, Ethiopia, the Philippines and Indonesia, and will offer observations on Muslim and Christian communities in these countries.  

A graduate of Princeton University with a Master of Divinity from Episcopal Divinity School (Cambridge), Lawrence earned his doctorate at Yale University in History of Religions.  

For more information, call 330–941–3448.  

Music at Noon concerts set
Youngstown State University's Dana School of Music, in collaboration with the Butler Institute of American Art, presents free Music at Noon performances throughout the fall semester. Performances are 12:15 p.m. Wednesdays in the Butler Institute of American Art. The concerts are open to the public and parking is free at the Butler.

The performances for the remainder of 2009 are as follows:

• Nov. 4 – New Music Society.
• Nov. 11 – No Performance Scheduled.
• Nov. 18 – Clarinet Studio Recital.
• Nov. 25 – No Performance Scheduled.
• Dec. 2 – Saxophone Studio Recital.

For more information, call the Dana School of Music at 330–941–3636.

Concerts will resume again in January 2010.

Pianist is New Music Society guest artist

  Avguste Antonov

The performances will take place at 12:15 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4 at the Music at Noon concert series in the Butler Institute of American Art; 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4, Main Concert in Bliss Recital Hall; Thursday, Nov. 5 at 5 p.m. at Sts. Peter and Paul Church on Covington Street in Youngstown; and Friday, Nov. 6 at 11 a.m. at the Dana School of Music Convocation in Bliss Recital Hall.

Antonov began his piano studies in Bulgaria at the age of 5. After moving to France, he studied at the Ecole Normale in Paris, and at the Conservatoire Nationale in Bordeaux. In 1999, he moved to the United States, attending the University of Missouri–Kansas. He completed the Bachelor of Music in piano at the University of Kansas and continued his studies at Texas Christian University.

Antonov will be performing works by American Tin Pan Alley composer Dana Suesse (American Nocturne), former Dana Faculty member Till MacIvor Meyn (Suite Pastiche), recent guest composer Carter Pann (The Upstate Rags and Soiree Macabre), University of Miami faculty member Raina Murnak (an Ohio premiere of Le Mystere dÕattraction), Matthew Lewis (an American premiere of his Fantasy Suite) and the world premiere of Blue Fantasy by Dana Faculty member Robert Rollin. On the Thursday program at Sts. Peter and Paul, Covington, Antonov will also perform ChopinÕs Etude No. 12, op. 25, and HaydnÕs Sonata No. 11, Hob XVI/2. The concerts will also present a work by Richard Zacharias, a local composer and New Music Guild Inc. member

The Composers Ensemble will perform two compositions by YSU freshman Samantha Hogan of Fredonia, N.Y. Meliae for trombone and euphonium, based on Greek mythological characters, will be played by senior Daniel Brandt, euphonium, and Hogan herself on trombone. Her quartet, Temporal Allusion for clarinet, euphonium, trombone and piano, also will be performed. Senior Ryan Coffey will perform the world premiere of his Wandering Lights, A Nocturne for Guitar and Electronic Tape

All concerts are free and open to the public. For additional information, call 330–941–3636.

600 students attend Business 2020 this week
Youngstown State University's Williamson College of Business Administration, in conjunction with Junior Achievement of the Mahoning Valley, hosts BUSINESS 2020 on Thursday, Nov. 5 from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Chestnut Room of Kilcawley Center on the YSU campus.

Six hundred students from 20 high schools in the tri–county area will attend. Panel sessions will be offered on financial literacy, careers in business, and preparing for the job market. More than 25 area business leaders will offer insight and information during the sessions. Some of the participating businesses include: Humility of Mary Health Partners, Home Savings & Loan Company; AVI Food Systems; Cohen & Company; Seven Seventeen Credit Union, WFMJ/WBCB Television; Packer Thomas; Chase Bank; and the Coca–Cola Bottling Company of Eastern Great Lakes. Panel sessions will run concurrently from 10 a.m. to noon. Dick Hartzel, inventor/president of Jump Stretch Inc., will give the keynote address.

The program begins at 9:15 a.m. with a welcome address from Betty Jo Licata, dean.

For more information, call Christine Shelton, coordinator of external relations for the WCBA, at 330–941–3068.

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