Monthly Archives: January 2015

U.S. News ranks Wright State online programs among best

U.S. News & World Report ranks Wright State’s online graduate programs in education, information systems and supply chain management and Industrial and Human Factors Engineering as among the best in the nation. Continue reading

Posted in Academics, Biomedical, Industrial, and Human Factors Engineering, Education & Leadership, Engineering & Computer Science, Graduate, Health, Education, & Human Services, Home news sidebar, News, Online Education, Rankings |

Take 5 with Tess Cortes

Tess Cortes

Excerpt “Materialize,” opening at Purdue Galleries Jan. 15, is a fascinating exploration into 3-D and digital printing. Tess Cortes, the gallery coordinator at Wright State University, is helping to bring this show to Lafayette. She talked to the Journal & Courier … Continue reading

Posted in Arts Scene, Fine and Performing Arts, News, Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries, Staff, Wright State in the News |

Broadway star Leslie Uggams to visit Wright State musical theatre program

Leslie Uggams on stage

Actress and singer Leslie Uggams will work with Wright State students and perform in concert as a visiting artist of the university’s Musical Theatre Initiative. Continue reading

Posted in Academics, Around Campus, Arts Scene, Fine and Performing Arts, Home news sidebar, Liberal Arts, Musical Theatre Initiative, News |

Health care advances tested at Wright State

Wright State Research Institute Logo

Excerpt When it comes to medicines and medical treatments that change lives, clinical trials are meant to be trailblazers. In Dayton, an alliance of three organizations — Premier Health, the area’s largest hospital system, and the Wright State University Boonshoft … Continue reading

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

Wright State University official named to CareSource trustees

Gary LeRoy

Excerpt A Wright State University associate dean has been named to the CareSource Ohio Board of Trustees. Dr. Gary LeRoy, who is associate dean of student affairs and admissions at the Boonshoft School of Medicine, will join the Medicaid managed … Continue reading

Posted in Faculty, News, Wright State in the News |

Audio—Ecologists take on tiny green beetles that infest ash trees

Biology professor Don Cipollini

The emerald ash borer is spreading across the U.S. and destroying ash trees. The pests usually only bothered ash trees, but an Ohio scientist has made a distressing discovery. Listen to the report from National Public Radio.

Posted in Biology, Faculty, News, Science & Mathematics, Wright State in the News |

No quit

Wright State’s Gwendolyn Reynolds refused to surrender to crushing series of setbacks
Gwendolyn Reynolds

Gwendolyn Reynolds, a 48-year-old single mother, is poised to get her B.A. in social work, overcoming a series of setbacks that would have derailed most other students. Continue reading

Posted in Academics, Enrollment Management, Liberal Arts, News, Social Work, Social Work & Human Services, Student Profile, Undergraduate |