Top 10 Newsroom videos of 2020

Wright State professor emeritus Julia Reichert and former motion pictures faculty member Steven Bognar talked about their Oscar-winning documentary film “American Factory” with students and faculty in the Tom Hanks Center for Motion Pictures. (Photo by Erin Pence)

From Oscar-winning directors to chicken farmers helping to educate and feed their community, the Wright State University Newsroom met some amazing people and covered exciting events in 2020.

This list takes you behind the curtain for our favorite videos from the past 12 months:

Watch: Wright State motion pictures program celebrates Oscar with Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar

Fresh off winning their first Oscar, professor emeritus Julia Reichert and former motion pictures faculty member Steven Bognar returned to Wright State to celebrate with students and faculty during a special gathering at the Tom Hanks Center for Motion Pictures Feb 13.

Watch: Behind the curtain

Weeks of communication and collaboration between cast and crew brought “Peter and the Starcatcher” to life on stage.

Watch: Sign of love

When Wright State University students walk from their dorms to campus this fall, they were reminded that love lives here.

Watch: In the bag

Wright State violin student Katie West was runner-up in a national grocery bagging championship.

Watch: Eggcellent delivery

Three hundred chickens make up most of the work and the soundtrack at Happy Wife Acres, a farm in Fairborn owned by Wright State alumni John and Andrea Hancock.

Watch: Family tree

The Wright State community and the public may soon get easy access to “Burly,” a 200-year-old bur oak tree in the campus woods.

Watch: Nearly 1,400 households throng to Wright State for mass food distribution by The Foodbank

A mass food distribution at the Wright State University Nutter Center for those in need drew nearly 1,400 households, with traffic choking nearby roadways and sending a river of vehicles snaking through the parking lot.

Watch: Unity rock

Labib Rouhana, associate professor of biological sciences, wanted to acknowledge the suffering that African American students and co-workers have been living with and to inform the campus community that “we’re not looking away.”

Watch: Black voices light up the night

The Black Student Union held a peaceful event with dozens of Wright State students in attendance. Participants were required to wear masks and follow physical distancing guidelines.

Watch: Community servants

Wright State employees gave back to the community by volunteering throughout Raider Country at six area nonprofit organizations.