Monthly Archives: May 2012

Wright State names interim dean

((Excerpt)) Wright State University has named an interim dean for its College of Liberal Arts after an initial search did not yield a finalist. Linda Caron, the associate dean, will begin serving as interim dean July 1. The committee searching … Continue reading

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Video games could help identify security threats

((Excerpt)) Other research with similar goals is under way. Mary Fendley, a Wright State University researcher in human factors engineering, said she designed a process through an Air Force Research Laboratory-supported project to help analysts examining images from intelligence sources … Continue reading

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‘Charter’ university plan stalls

((Excerpt)) Wright State University President David Hopkins said there were many concerns about the proposed funding cuts. During a meeting Monday with the Wright State faculty senate, he said the plan had “met its end for a while.” “The idea … Continue reading

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Raider Recon—Ushering

Student reporter Lara Donnelly, host of the monthly video series Raider Recon, gets dressed up and trains as an usher for Wright State’s upcoming production… Continue reading

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‘Charter’ university plan stalls

((Excerpt)) A plan to allow Ohio’s 14 public universities to become “enterprise” schools — receiving less state funding in exchange for no longer being held to some “burdensome” regulations — has stalled indefinitely, although no formal declaration of its status … Continue reading

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Artist Bing Davis to visit Wright State

Photo of Bing Davis and his wife

Renowned Dayton artist Willis ‘Bing’ Davis will present “The Arts as an Agent of Change” at the Friends of the Libraries’ 33rd annual spring luncheon. Continue reading

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DoD basic research discovers new spectroscopic signatures from the “Stuff of Life”

Photo of Dr. Elliott Brown and a Wright State student.

There is hardly a greater discovery during the past century than DNA–deoxyribonucleic acid–the biomolecular material in every cell of the human body. Continue reading

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Annual Greek Step Show, Drag Revue live up to billing

Photo of svereral Wright State students performing at the 13th Annual Harley E. Flack Greek Step Show.

The 13th Annual Harley E. Flack Greek Step Show and the Rainbow Alliance’s annual Drag Revue show made for a festive Friday on May 4. Check out some of the best pictures from the two events.

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Wright State business dean to retire

((Excerpt)) Berkwood Farmer has spent the past decade of his life helping prepare students for a future in the business world. As dean of the Raj Soin College of Business at Wright State University    , Farmer has steered the … Continue reading

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Area cities, Wright State work to save ash trees

((Excerpt)) KETTERING — A few years ago, it was a foregone conclusion that Ohio’s millions of ash trees would fall to the emerald ash borer. Losing them to the insect or cutting them down in advance of the inevitable are … Continue reading

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