YSU names new dean of STEM college

YOUNGSTOWN — Martin A. Abraham, dean of the College of Graduate Studies at the University of Toledo, has been named the founding dean of Youngstown State University’s new College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

The STEM college at YSU is being created under an academic reorganization announced earlier this year with the College of Arts and Sciences and the Rayen College of Engineering and Technology reconfigured to form the College of STEM and the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.

“I’m looking forward to leading the development of this new college and watching it grow,” said Abraham, who is also a professor of chemical and environmental engineering at Toledo.

The STEM college will include 10 academic departments: Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Civil/Environmental and Chemical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Systems, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Engineering and Technology, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Industrial & Systems Engineering with Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics & Statistics, Physics and Astronomy.