Monthly Archives: December 2015

Universities seeing surge in international students

Area universities are experiencing sharp increases in the number of international students, who are drawn by robust academics and stepped-up efforts in recruiting. Continue reading

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Nursing professors honored for research on bath salts and pregnancy

Wright State nursing faculty members honored for providing vital information to health care professionals about the effects bath salts can have on pregnant women and their babies. Continue reading

Posted in Academics, Faculty, Home news sidebar, News, Nursing, Kinesiology, & Health Sciences, Research |

One of a kind

Almost one hundred people helped celebrate the grand opening of the ReyRey Café during a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Dec. 2 in Rike Hall, home of the Wright State Raj Soin College of Business. Continue reading

Posted in Accountancy, Around Campus, Business, Economics, Finance and Financial Services, Giving, Home news sidebar, Homepage Photos and Video, Info. Systems & Supply Chain Management, Management & International Business, Marketing, MBA, News, Social & Applied Economics, Videos |

Wright State students give back

Excerpt Wright State University students had the opportunity to reflect on what they are thankful for regarding their education and donate Raiderbucks to one of the 1,600 foundations found on campus as part of its Giving Tuesday event. Organizers hoped … Continue reading

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Giving Tuesday gives students a voice

Faculty, staff and students showed support for Rise. Shine. The Campaign for Wright State University during the third annual Giving Tuesday event. Continue reading

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‘Of Beards and Men’

Christopher Oldstone-Moore

Excerpt Dewey would have been a sympathetic audience for “Of Beards and Men,” a finely detailed, borderline obsessive history by Christopher Oldstone-Moore, who spends more than 300 pages arguing that there’s very little on which facial hair might not come … Continue reading

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Designer genes

Wright State biomedical engineering students get chance to examine reconstruction of fateful TWA Flight 800

Graduate students in Wright State’s biomedical engineering program met with federal regulators and investigators to learn how the government analyzes equipment failures and works to design systems that don’t fail. Continue reading

Posted in Academics, Biomedical, Industrial, and Human Factors Engineering, Engineering & Computer Science, Graduate, Home news sidebar, Medical Research, Medicine, News, Orthopaedics, Research |

Multicultural Dayton: Mai Nguyen, from Vietnam to Wright State University

Excerpt Mai Nguyen knows what it’s like to adapt to a different world. Born in Ho Chi Minh City when it was still known as Saigon, Nguyen came to America as an international student at Syracuse University, where she met … Continue reading

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Adam Pascal Bound for Wright State

Adam Pascal headshot

Excerpt Tony Award nominee Adam Pascal, one of the finest pop/rock voices in contemporary musical theatre who garnered acclaim in Jonathan Larson’s groundbreaking 1996 Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical “Rent,” will perform a special acoustic concert Wednesday, Dec. 2 at … Continue reading

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Come one, come all: Enjoy the Wright State Madrigal Dinner

Excerpt Since 1983, the annual Madrigal Dinner, produced each December by the Wright State University Student Union with the School of Music, has provided the greater Dayton community with a musical and dramatic interpretation of these fabulous medieval ceremonial feasts. What … Continue reading

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