Yearly Archives: 2014

Film preservationist, Wright State alum to give keynote at Public History Symposium

George Willeman, from These Amazing Shadows

Scheduled for March 14, the annual Public History Graduate Symposium will focus on “The Future is Our History” and include presentations by public history graduate students. Continue reading

Posted in Academics, Alumni, Alumni Profile, Fine and Performing Arts, Home news sidebar, Humanities and Cultural Studies, Liberal Arts, News, Research |

Wright State President, Ohio leaders to address Latino education gap at Latino Education Summit

Wright State University President David R. Hopkins will join Ohio Board of Regents Senior Vice Chancellor Gary Cates, Ohio educators and lawmakers on March 5. Continue reading

Posted in Home news sidebar, News, Offices, Special Categories |

Multicultural Dayton: Riad Ajami, director of Wright State’s Center for Global Business

Excerpt Next to his numerous published works, and the many publications where he’s been featured, Riad Ajami keeps a stack of books in his Wright State University office to remind him of home. Like his favorite author and poet, Kahlil Gibran, Ajami was born in … Continue reading

Posted in Business, Faculty, Supply Chain Management, Marketing, and Management, Wright State in the News |

Sundance Channel’s ‘Push Girls’ star Tiphany Adams to visit Wright State

The Wright State community can meet Tiphany Adams and view an episode of “Push Girls” on March 10 in the Student Union Apollo Room. Continue reading

Posted in Around Campus, Disability Services, Home news sidebar, News, Offices, Special Categories |

Shadow of death

Wright State student leader fled native Iraq after attempted kidnapping of father
Fady Al-Banna

Fady Al-Banna is thriving as a student leader at Wright State, just a few years after his family fled his native Iraq. Continue reading

Posted in Academics, Business, Finance, Accountancy, Management Information Systems, and Economics, International Students, News |

DBJ Defense Forum: Dayton leaders seek lucrative UAS research

Wright State Research Institute Logo

Excerpt Dayton may not be a designated test center for drones, but leaders say the future is in research. At the DBJ’s Defense Forum Thursday morning at Wright State University, about 160 industry and development leaders gathered with the future of … Continue reading

Posted in Wright State in the News, WSRI |

Xtreme BOTS Competition returns to Wright State March 22

Xtreme BOTS match

High school and college students will battle with remote-controlled robots during the Ohio Robotics Spring Xtreme BOTS Competition on March 22 in the Wright State Nutter Center. Continue reading

Posted in Academics, Around Campus, Engineering & Computer Science, Home news sidebar, News |

It’s full speed ahead for WSRI and the region in developing unmanned aerial systems

Dennis Andersh

Defense Forum examines future of unmanned aerial systems and aerospace industries in the the Dayton region. Continue reading

Posted in Academics, Engineering & Computer Science, Home news sidebar, Military & Veterans, News, Research, WSRI |

Public Health Grand Rounds event to focus on One Health approach to disease outbreak

One Health logo

Wright State Boonshoft School of Medicine’s Master of Public Health Program to host a Public Health Grand Rounds event on disease outbreak on March 21. Continue reading

Posted in Academics, Center for Global Health, Health and Exercise Sciences, Home news sidebar, Master of Public Health, Medicine, News, Nursing Institute |