Yearly Archives: 2017

Wright State course gives students from Switzerland up-close look at U.S. social work system

A comparative exchange course involves Swiss students coming to Wright State one year and Wright State students traveling to Switzerland the next. Continue reading

Posted in Academics, Graduate, Home news sidebar, Liberal Arts, News, Social Work, Social Work & Human Services |

International Friendship Program connects international students with the Dayton community

The International Friendship Program helps Wright State international students build relationships with faculty, staff, students and community members. Continue reading

Posted in Around Campus, Faculty & Staff, Home news sidebar, International Students, News, University Center for International Education |

Wright State’s HAPI Lab for high school students becomes focus of national interest

The outreach program was developed to promote, enrich and inform high school students about the anatomy and physiology of the human body Continue reading

Posted in Academics, Faculty, Home news sidebar, Medicine, Neuroscience, Cell Biology and Physiology, News, Science & Mathematics |

Springfield News-Sun story: Wright State students uncover buried Clark County history

Excerpt Wright State University students are digging up history in George Rogers Clark Park to piece together what happened at the Battle of Piqua. The students are enrolled in field school, a six-week archaeological dig that has focused on the … Continue reading

Posted in Wright State in the News |

Team builder

Applause and laughter echoed through the Wright State University woods as 115 incoming Boonshoft School of Medicine students tackled team-building challenges. Continue reading

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Wright State engineering professor Maher Amer wins prestigious engineering fellowship at Saudi Arabian university

Maher Amer, a mechanical and materials engineering professor, will research the next generation of solar cells, as a Fulbright Scholar at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. Continue reading

Posted in Academics, Engineering & Computer Science, Faculty, Home news sidebar, Mechanical and Materials Engineering, News, Research |

Wright State President Cheryl B. Schrader meets with leaders of Sinclair College, University of Dayton

President Schrader also has future meetings scheduled with Jo Alice Blondin, president of Clark State Community College, and Cynthia Jackson-Hammond, president of Central State University. Continue reading

Posted in Alumni, Around Campus, Engineering & Computer Science, Health and Exercise Sciences, Health, Education, & Human Services, Home news sidebar, Liberal Arts, News, President, Science & Mathematics |

DBJ story: More finance expertise comes to Wright State’s board

Excerpt Wright State University has added another Ohio financial leader to its board. Stephanie Green has been appointed to the university’s 11-member board by Gov. John Kasich, it announced. Green is senior vice president at Fifth Third Bank and director of its Fifth … Continue reading

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Wright State communications staff, photographers honored in Ohio journalism contest

Second consecutive year SPJ recognizes Wright State staff

Staff members from the Office of Communications and Office of Marketing received four awards for their coverage of Wright State in the 2017 Ohio’s Best Journalism Contest. Continue reading

Posted in Awards, Home news sidebar, News, Staff |

DDN story: Wright State professor appointed to Ohio Board of Nursing committees

Excerpt A Wright State University nursing professor has been appointed to two state committees. The Ohio Board of Nursing has appointed Kristine Scordo to a committee on prescriptive governance and an advisory committee on advanced practice of registered nursing. Both … Continue reading

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