Wright State Headlines
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Apr 7
Turning injury into impact
Because her own athletic career was cut short due to injury, Siobhan Fagan ’04 has made it her goal as an athletic trainer to ensure others in her care don’t suffer a similar fate. Continue reading
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Apr 2
From dance to data, Wright State students showcase research at annual celebration
Research from students in six colleges and dozens of disciplines took center stage at Wright State’s Celebration of Undergraduate and Graduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities. Continue reading
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Apr 2
A lifetime of curiosity
A childhood filled with curiosity and invention inspired Wright State alum Jackie Janning-Lask to pursue a career focused on engineering, leadership and public service. Continue reading
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Mar 31
Wright State students raise more than $59,000 for Dayton Children’s Hospital at Raiderthon
Raiderthon raised more than $59,000 for Dayton Children’s Hospital, pushing its cumulative total to more than $600,000 in the last 13 years. Continue reading
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Mar 31
Wright State retains Carnegie Research 2 classification, reinforcing national research impact
Maintaining the R2 designation signals Wright State’s continued commitment to advancing discovery while training the next generation of researchers and professionals. Continue reading
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Yearly Archives: 2012
Wright State works to unlock secrets of learning
They look for “the look.” It’s the revealing expression on the face of a student that shows comprehension–understanding something that had once been a mystery. Continue reading
The keys to operator performance
((Excerpt)) If you want to keep plant operators performing at optimal levels, how many alarms should you try to hold your system to? What’s the best way to present procedures to those operators so they know what to do when … Continue reading
BSOM to host advance screening of HBO’s “The Weight of the Nation”
Four-film documentary series and panel discussion addressing national obesity epidemic
Free and open to the public, this four-film series addresses our country’s obesity epidemic. Continue reading
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
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
‘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
‘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
Artist Bing Davis to visit Wright State
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
DoD basic research discovers new spectroscopic signatures from the “Stuff of Life”
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
