Yearly Archives: 2012

Wright State student employee ‘resets the bar,’ wins university and state awards

Photo of Ashley Leasure and Wright State President David R. Hopkins

Ashley Leasure has worked in the Wright State University Department of Music as a student worker for just two years, but the impression she will leave will last long after that. Continue reading

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Take a trip down Wright State’s memory lane at Blast from the Past

Photo of Jim Brown from 1997

The event will feature some of Wright State’s first students, faculty and staff sharing their memories of the campus’ early days. Continue reading

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WSU gets $3.5M from state to create high-paying research jobs

((Excerpt)) BEAVERCREEK — A consortium of the Wright State Research Institute and area companies will create 50 full-time jobs with an average wage of about $90,000 a year to work with Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to study human performance. The … Continue reading

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Second annual symposium studies sustainability in health care

Photo of Gary Cohen

The event will feature nationally renowned health care sustainability expert Gary Cohen as the keynote speaker. Continue reading

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Explore the real costs of the market economy

Photo of the now close General Motors truck and bus plant in Moraine, Ohio.

The Raj Soin College of Business is sponsoring a Social Cost Workshop Friday, April 27, from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the Millet Hall Atrium. Continue reading

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Eighth grader helps concussion research

((Excerpt)) FAIRBORN — A Tipp City eighth grader is now helping a researcher at Wright State University save kids’ lives. Sammie Rowland is just an ordinary 14-year-old girl who likes to play sports. (After her brother suffered a concussion,) Sammie … Continue reading

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Air Force looking to fill 64 civilian jobs

((Excerpt)) WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — The U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, relocated to the base as part of the Base Realignment and Closure law, has more than 60 civilian jobs and about 50 military officer jobs to … Continue reading

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W.Va. therapist gets to the heart through art

((Excerpt)) CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Barbara Schwartz-Arevalo gives an angry, unresponsive child crayons and paper. The child won’t tell parents, teachers or therapists what bothers her, but the picture that emerges from her drawing gives Schwartz-Arevalo some clues. The colors red … Continue reading

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WSU considers buying apartment complex in foreclosure

((Excerpt)) FAIRBORN — A privately owned apartment complex that Wright State University is considering buying is in foreclosure. Campus Village at Cimarron Woods, owned by Michigan-based Campus Village Management, had a foreclosure civil lawsuit filed against it March 30 in … Continue reading

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Seeing one’s ability, not disability

STREAMS carries Wright State student on a voyage to science

Part of the series: Opening Doors

Photo of Jacob Brewer

STREAMS unlocks Jacob Brewer’s passion for research. Continue reading

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