Monthly Archives: August 2014

Professor Kristine Scordo gains national attention for nurse practitioner program

Nursing professor Kristine Scordo

Nursing professor named chair of prestigious advanced practice nurses group and as one of the 25 Top Nurse Practitioner Program Professors. Continue reading

Posted in Academics, Faculty, Faculty & Staff, Graduate, Health and Exercise Sciences, Home news sidebar, News |

AFRL sensors head lands at WSRI

WSRI's Michael Deis

Excerpt A former directorate head at Air Force Research Laboratory has taken a new position at Wright State Research Institute. Michael Deis was formerly head of the sensors directorate at AFRL, and worked in developing technology related to intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. He moves … Continue reading

Posted in Wright State in the News, WSRI |

Wright State researcher coauthors new study on mercury in oceans in Nature

Chad Hammerschmidt

Wright State professor Chad Hammerschmidt participated in research on the mercury levels in the oceans reported in new issue of Nature. Continue reading

Posted in Academics, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Faculty, Home news sidebar, News, Research, Science & Mathematics |

Summer-at-the-Edge open house to showcase students’ high-tech, high-flying achievements

Discover Lab students

The Summer-at-the-Edge program offers highly sought-after internships that give undergraduate engineering students the freedom to solve problems or meet challenges facing the military. Continue reading

Posted in Around Campus, Engineering & Computer Science, Home news sidebar, Military & Veterans, News, Science & Mathematics |

Brilliant for a day: The (REAL) science of brain enhancing stimulation

Excerpt Dr. Mike Weisend is a senior research scientist at the Wright State Research Institute in Beavercreek, Ohio.  He’s a neuroscientist who worked on developing something called neuroimaging-guided transcranial direct current stimulation, or tDCS. Basically, it’s a device that uses electricity to … Continue reading

Posted in News, Staff, Wright State in the News, WSRI |

Boonshoft School of Medicine Family Medicine Residency Program awarded senior immunization grant

Family medicine residents to use grant to improve vaccine rates in patients age 65 and older
Five Rivers Health Centers Family Health Center

Family medicine residents will use grant to improve influenza and pneumococcal vaccine rates in patients age 65 and older. Continue reading

Posted in Academics, Family Medicine, Home news sidebar, Medical Residents, Medicine, News |

Support for Wright-Patt, other federal sites in Ohio at critical juncture

Photo of Dr. Hopkins

Excerpt The Dayton region is getting traction in aerospace and people across the country are starting to pay attention to what is happening here. “But we have to be relentless,” says Wright State University President David Hopkins, a co-chair of the Wright-Patt 2020 committee. … Continue reading

Posted in For the Media, Military & Veterans, News, Wright State in the News |

Coldwater grad set to lead parade as everyday superhero

Excerpt It’s been years since Todd Reigelsperger has been in the Coldwater Community Picnic parade. The 22-year-old said he was in the parade several times as a youngster when he was on the community swim team before switching over to … Continue reading

Posted in News, Wright State in the News |

Boonshoft School of Medicine family medicine resident receives award in substance abuse, addiction

Wright State Boonshoft School of Medicine family medicine resident is one of two people nationwide to receive an award for research of substance abuse and addiction. Continue reading

Posted in Academics, Faculty, Faculty & Staff, Family Medicine, Home news sidebar, Medical Research, Medical Residents, Medicine, News, Research |