Monthly Archives: March 2015

ArtsGala features night of unparalleled entertainment

Fine and performing arts students displayed their rich talents throughout the Creative Arts Center during ArtsGala March 28. Continue reading

Posted in Academics, Arts Scene, ArtsGala, Faculty & Staff, Fine and Performing Arts, Home news sidebar, Homepage Photos and Video, Liberal Arts, News, Photos, Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries |

Blind veteran and adventurer Steve Baskis to give Presidential Lecture at Wright State

Steve Baskis headshot

Steve Baskis’ Presidential Lecture at Wright State will be preceded by a video and speaker series on PTSD beginning April 2. Continue reading

Posted in Academics, Around Campus, Disability Services, Education & Leadership, Health, Education, & Human Services, Home news sidebar, Military & Veterans, News, Student Union |

In neuroscience, Dayton begins to make mark

Excerpt Wright State University is readying to open its $37 million Neuroscience Engineering Collaboration Building, a structure university leaders promise will be a unique hub where neurology, medicine, engineering and computer science will meet. “It’s safe to say there’s no … Continue reading

Posted in Academics, Engineering & Computer Science, Faculty, News, Research, Science & Mathematics, Wright State in the News |

Best feeling possible

Wright State neuroengineer Sherif Elbasiouny to conduct pioneering prosthesis research in new NEC Building
Sherif Elbasiouny with prosthetic arm

Wright State neuroengineer Sherif Elbasiouny will conduct pioneering prosthesis research in the new Neuroscience Engineering Collaboration Building. Continue reading

Posted in Academics, Biomedical Sciences, Biomedical, Industrial, and Human Factors Engineering, Campus Growth, Engineering & Computer Science, Faculty, Faculty & Staff, Home news sidebar, Medicine, Neuroscience Institute, Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology, News, Research, Science & Mathematics |

Psychological phenomenon

Wright State’s Kevin Smith hopes to combine psychology with political science

Kevin Smith, who bounced around the foster care system for nearly 10 years before being adopted, is poised to graduate and hopes to combine psychology with political science. Continue reading

Posted in Academics, Model UN, News, Psychology, Science & Mathematics, Student Profile, Undergraduate |

Wright State student crowned Ms. Wheelchair Ohio

Jasmine Spradley

Wright State psychology major Jasmine Spradley was crowned the 2015 Ms. Wheelchair Ohio and will represent the state at a national competition in Iowa. Continue reading

Posted in Academics, Around Campus, Disability Services, Home news sidebar, News, Psychology, Science & Mathematics, Undergraduate |

UCIE to host celebration of Persian New Year

Fahimeh Fallahi

Wright State students can celebrate the Iranian New Year during a coffee hour hosted by the University Center of International Education on March 27. Continue reading

Posted in Around Campus, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Home news sidebar, International Students, News, Science & Mathematics, Student Union, University Center for International Education |

$37M neuroscience building a draw for Dayton health care

Neuroscience Engineering Collaboration Building exterior

Excerpt Wright State University is close to finishing the $37 million Neuroscience Engineering Collaboration building it hopes will bring its research into a new era. The building, on the school’s main campus, will host a grand opening next month, with … Continue reading

Posted in Engineering & Computer Science, Neuroscience Institute, Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology, News, Science & Mathematics, Wright State in the News |

Wright State to host Orthopaedic Research and Innovation Symposium

Tarun Goswami

Engineering and orthopaedic clinicians and researchers will gather at Wright State for symposium on orthopaedic research and devices. Continue reading

Posted in Academics, Around Campus, Biomedical, Industrial, and Human Factors Engineering, Engineering & Computer Science, Faculty, Home news sidebar, Medicine, News, Orthopaedics, Research, Student Union |

New Wright State building area’s latest neuroscience investment

Excerpt Wright State University’s new campus Neuroscience Engineering Collaboration Building represents an exclamation point of sorts on the Dayton area’s long-term attention to neuroscience. Premier Health, Kettering Health Network, Dayton Children’s Hospital and others have made investments in brain and … Continue reading

Posted in Neuroscience Institute, Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology, News, Research, Science & Mathematics, Wright State in the News |