YSU picks four ‘Centers of Excellence’

YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown State University is proposing that it be allowed to develop four Centers of Excellence under the state’s new Strategic Plan fore Higher Education.

The state is asking its public universities to determine areas in which they can excel academically, and YSU initially looked at 11 proposals.

The list was narrowed to four: the Center of Excellence in Materials Science and Engineering, the Center for Applied Chemical Biology, the Williamson College of Business Administration Center of Excellence in International Business and the Rich Center of Excellence for the Study of Autism.

The programs, which must be approved by the state, have a combined implementation cost of more than $60 million.

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