Canfield native receives award

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Neighbors | Submitted.Juliana Merhaut received the Cardinal Newman Service Award for her service to the Newman Center, Catholic Student Association, Youngstown State University and the community. The award is given to a graduating college senior.

A Canfield resident’s charitable work has not gone unnoticed.

Juliana Merhaut received the Cardinal Newman Service Award for her service to the Newman Center, Catholic Student Association, Youngstown State University and the community and her embodiment of the English theologian and educator John Henry Newman’s motto “Heart speaking to Heart.”

The award is given out to a graduating senior that allows their own feats to speak to others’ in service and in recognition of the responsibilty we each have to care for our neighbor.

The 2005 graduate of the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow has brought service to the Catholic Student Association as a leader. She has assisted with clean-up days in the community, taken part in Homecoming cookouts, Pancake Study Breaks, the annual Beatitude House Christmas party and has been Lector at Mass.

She was an academic senator for the Bitonte College of Health and Human Services, served as hall council president and executive vice president for the Resident Housing Association and is a University Scholar.

Merhaut volunteers at the Rescue Mission of Mahoning Valley, American Cancer Society “Relay for Life” and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and its Great Strides Walk.

“Some of those organizations are close to me because they raise money for research and I plan on working in research,” Merhaut said.

As a member of the honors program, she has been on the dean’s list with a 4.0 GPA each semester and will graduate from Youngstown State University with a Bachelor of Arts in Applied Sciences, Developmental Psychology and Allied Health. She plans to attend graduate school at Boston University for Clinical Research.