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February 9, 2021 at 2:07 pm |
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Denver L. Mills, BS ’57, Life Member, celebrated his 90th birthday on Dec. 30, 2020. Mills was the first in his family to attend college and was a member of Tau Beta Pi. He earned his master’s degree from Stanford and worked for the US Army Corps of Engineers for 21 years, retiring in 1986 with the Army’s Meritorious Civilian Service Medal. He then worked as chief engineer at Scott and White Hospital in Temple, and as an engineer with Emerson Construction before establishing Denver L. Mills Construction Engineering Company.
January 13, 2021
K. Bingham Cady, professor emeritus of nuclear engineering in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, died Dec. 10 at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. He was 84.
In a career that straddled academia and industry, Cady helped improve the safety of nuclear fission reactors by developing computer modeling software that could simulate – and assess the risk of – how reactors respond to operational fluctuations and accidents. Provided
K. Bingham Cady, professor emeritus of nuclear engineering in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, died Dec. 10 at the age of 84.
“He was part of a generation of reactor theorists that was trained at a remarkably deep level, in large part because they did their Ph.D.’s directly under people who came out of the Manhattan Project, and so were the founders of the field, or they had worked with the students or postdocs of those people,” said former student Mark Deinert ’96
Dec 10, 2020
YOUNGSTOWN Mayor Jamael Tito Brown gives the commencement address and 1,020 graduates receive degrees as Youngstown State University celebrates fall commencement though virtually 2 p.m. Sunday.
The ceremony, moved online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, is available on the YSU homepage, YouTube and Facebook.
YSU President Jim Tressel will lead the ceremony, with additional remarks from Provost Brien Smith and deans from each of the university’s colleges. Brown gives the commencement address, while Kristen Thompson is the student speaker.
Brown, who has both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from YSU, was elected the 51st mayor of the city of Youngstown in 2017. He previously was chief deputy treasurer for Mahoning County, director of the Youngstown Human Relations Commission, a community organizer for YSU’s Center for Urban and Regional Studies and a caseworker for Mahoning County Children Services Board.