YSU, businesses strengthen partnerships

YSU, businesses strengthen partnerships

YOUNGSTOWN — Businesses and Youngstown State University are strengthening their partnership in research and work force development.

Martin Abraham, a YSU dean, encouraged members of a business group today to think of the university when looking for ways to solve problems.

“We’re wide open. If you can dream it up, we can probably find a way to make it work,” Abraham told members of the Mahoning and Shenango Valley Advanced Manufacturing Initiative.

The group came to YSU to learn about the school’s new effort to combine its science, technology, engineering and math programs into one college.

Abraham was hired last year as the dean of the STEM College. He said he thinks the college should serve the community at large as well as undergraduate students.

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