Monthly Archives: June 2017

Medical students push for health care improvement on Capitol Hill

Posted on June 20, 2017 by Heather Maurer

Two Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine students spoke with legislators and legislative aides from Ohio on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Continue reading →

Posted in Home news sidebar, Medical Students, Medicine, News |

Electric moment

Wright State grad student Shashank Reddy Goli charging full speed ahead at Tesla
Posted on June 20, 2017 by Jim Hannah

Shashank Reddy Goli, a graduate student studying industrial and human factors engineering at Wright State, is spending the summer interning at Tesla’s manufacturing facility in California. Continue reading →

Posted in Academics, Biomedical, Industrial, and Human Factors Engineering, Engineering & Computer Science, Graduate, Home news sidebar, International Students, News, Research, Student Profile |

Wright State research on EAB, olive trees featured in Olive Oil Times

Don Cipollini holding piece of white fringetree affected by emerald ash borer

Excerpt A team of researchers from Ohio’s Wright State University has discovered that the invasive Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) is capable of completing development on olive trees, making it the second official non-ash species of plant that can host the … Continue reading →

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

Former Wright State basketball star’s NBA coaching career profiled in Boston Globe

Excerpt Vitaly Potapenko giggles when he hears “The Ukraine Train.” He’s carried that nickname since his days at Wright State University, when he was a fierce, burly center who ran through the Midwestern Collegiate Conference on his way to being … Continue reading →

Posted in Wright State in the News |

Fairborn Daily Herald profiles Air Force medic preparing for nursing career at Wright State

Excerpt Today, Barberi is a senior in Wright State University’s Veteran Bachelor of Science Nursing program option, a pre-licensure B.S.N. program option for veteran and active duty personnel from the Air Force, Army and Navy who have completed training as … Continue reading →

Posted in Wright State in the News |

Foundation find

Students in Wright State anthropology course unearth historic settlement structure
Posted on June 19, 2017 by Jim Hannah

During a six-week dig, students in Wright State’s Field School in Archaeology uncovered a limestone foundation of a structure occupied by frontier settlers outside of Springfield, Ohio. Continue reading →

Posted in Academics, Faculty, Field School in Archaeology, Home news sidebar, Homepage Photos and Video, Liberal Arts, News, Research, Social Sciences and International Studies, Videos |

Wright State business researchers contribute to study featured in Forbes

Excerpt A corporate board packed with independent directors has ethical appeal, and has become a common sight at big companies. But new research indicates that boards with only one insider (the CEO) are worse off. “Lone-insider boards go a step … Continue reading →

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

Literacy love

Posted on June 16, 2017 by Sarah Olsen

Allison Rives, who is pursuing her master’s degree in literacy from the College of Education and Human Services, instills a love of reading in her elementary school students. Continue reading →

Posted in Academics, Education & Leadership, Enrollment Management, Graduate, Health, Education, & Human Services, Home news sidebar, Military & Veterans, News, Online Education, Student Profile |

Dayton Magazine has ‘five questions for Wright State University’s new president’

The June/July issue of the Dayton Magazine features a Q&A with Cheryl B. Schrader, who will join Wright State as president on July 1. Questions posed in the interview include: What made Wright State attractive to you and what will … Continue reading →

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Accounting principles

Maggie Houston caps teaching career with scholarship designed to help nontraditional female accounting students at Wright State
Posted on June 15, 2017 by Jim Hannah

Even in retirement, long-time accountancy instructor Maggie Houston continues to place the welfare of her students above all else. Continue reading →

Posted in Academics, Accountancy, Alumni, Alumni Association, Business, Faculty, Faculty Profile, Finance and Financial Services, Giving, Graduate, Home news sidebar, MBA, News |