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YSU professor to lead students on trip to Tibet

Staff report Youngstown Ray Beiersdorfer, an award-winning professor of geology at Youngstown


MIU IV program teaches academic skills to adults

Staff report Sharon, pa. Through Midwestern Intermediate Unit IV’s Adult Basic Education


Gifted students invited to attend Honors Institute

Staff report YOUNGSTOWN Gifted and talented high school students are invited to attend the 2014


Getting around

Staff report kent Kent State University launched a partnership with Zipcar Inc., the world’s


Tease photo

McGuffey students come to tiny Nessa's aid

Tyaizia Allen, left, a McGuffey Elementary School student; teacher Paula Cipriano, who is holding Nessa, a small poodle mix whose owners surrendered her to Legacy Dog Rescue after she broke her leg in a fall; veterinarian Dr. John Owen, who performed the delicate surgery to repair the leg; and McGuffey student Rhyan Pegues hold a check for $600 that the school’s leadership team of 15 fifth- and sixth-graders presented to the rescue for Nessa's care. The team raised the money by making and selling Rainbow Bloom bracelets.

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YSU students among top in nation to be tested in Tempe

Students simulate presenting legal arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court


Penn State Shenango chancellor honored at dinner

Staff report SHARON, PA. Each fall, Steve Hessmann, director of Development and Alumni


EGCC program awarded

Staff report YOUNGSTOWN The federal TRIO Educational Opportunity Center Program at Eastern


16 students graduate from Sharon school of nursing

Staff report SHARON, PA. Sixteen students graduated last month from Sharon Regional Health


Partnership formed for pilot project

Staff report hermitage, pa. Midwestern Intermediate Unit IV, in partnership with the


KSU Police Services receives accreditation

Staff report KENT Kent State University Police Services has received law- enforcement


KSU researchers study cellphone use, anxiety, happiness

Staff report kent Smartphones are central to college students’ lives, keeping them constantly


Accreditation reaffirmed for Grove City College

Staff report GROVE CITY, PA. The Middle States Commission on Higher Education has reaffirmed


PENN STATE SHENANGO Leeds retires as chancellor; Carrick is successor

Staff report SHARON, PA. After more than 42 years with the university, Fredric Leeds retired as


MIU IV, Feed the Children team up to help

Staff report GROVE CITY, PA. Midwestern Intermediate Unit IV and Feed the Children partnered