Staff, family, faculty and students have been in and out of the Beeghly center all day on Youngstown State University's campus, getting vaccinated.

"This is really profound for us to contribute to solving the problem of the pandemic," said Dr. Nancy Wagner, Director of Centofanti School of Nursing at YSU. "And our students are very excited to be apart of making history," she said.

In collaboration with Mercy Health and the Youngstown City Health Department, the university will be able to vaccinate two thousand people over the next two weeks.

"WE'RE ABLE TO GET THESE TWO FULL CLINCS IN BEFORE THEY GO AWAY," said Erin Bishop, Health Commissioner at Youngstown City Health District. "You know what I mean, before they go on summer break," she said.

The health district is grateful for the help, as vaccinating thousands of people is a big job.

"We only have two nurses on staff at Youngstown City, so it's just nice," said Bishop. "We've been so blessed with some great volunteers but it's just hard you know to get a lot of people so you know it's been great to be able to have eight stations just moving," she said.

Things are really beginning to look up for YSU students and the seniors say they're thrilled to be able to move toward some normalcy and have an in person graduation this year.

"I was so excited when they announced it, I was like really hoping they were gonna do it, but I wasn't sure but now they got like the vaccine out, I think it'll be really nice," said senior nursing student Melanie Bakes. "And to have it like outside, hopefully it'll be a nice day and we can all celebrate," she said.

"The fact that it's at the stadium, makes it even better, it keeps us spread out," said Brendan Swanson, senior at YSU. "I'm excited now that, they did announce it to us, and I think it'll be a good time." he said.

The university is hoping to get back to in person classes in the fall.