Faculty

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 →

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 →

Wright State’s Allen Hunt develops model to measure vegetation growth that offers promise in agriculture, climate prediction

Posted on June 14, 2017 by Jim Hannah

Physic professor Allen Hunt details his latest research in the Valdose Zone Journal, published by the Soil Science Society of America. Continue reading →

Commentary by Wright State researchers on Lou Gehrig’s disease featured in prestigious scientific journal

Posted on June 13, 2017 by Jim Hannah

Wright State biological sciences professor invited graduate students to write a commentary with him on ALS research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Continue reading →

Wright State professor Julian Gomez-Cambronero to be recognized in his native Spain for scientific work

Posted on June 2, 2017 by Jim Hannah

Wright State scientist Julian Gomez-Cambronero will receive the prestigious Communications Award conferred by Cadena SER. Continue reading →

Wright State University research on olive trees and emerald ash borer featured on Entomology Today

Posted on May 23, 2017 by Jim Hannah

Wright State researchers find that emerald ash borer, which is destroying ash trees in a large swath of the United States, can also successfully complete development on olive trees. Continue reading →

Dog days

Wright State’s Sarah and Ash McGinley give Marco the pit bull new ‘leash’ on life
Posted on May 22, 2017 by Jim Hannah

Wright State couple Ash and Sarah McGinleys rescued Marco, a pit bull, from an adoption center in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
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Leading the way

Wright State associate professor Pratik Parikh led Dayton-Cincinnati engineering organization to a Gold Award in 2016
Posted on May 9, 2017 by Jim Hannah

Pratik Parikh, associate professor in the Department of Biomedical, Industrial and Human Factors Engineering, led a revival of the local Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers chapter. Continue reading →

Stressful situation

Wright State associate professor Jeremy Schumm to train Canadian clinicians in PTSD therapy for military veterans
Posted on May 5, 2017 by Jim Hannah

Canadian clinicians want to adopt a model used by Jeremy Schumm when he was associate director of the PTSD program at the Cincinnati VA. Continue reading →

Security blanket

Vance Saunders heads the College of Engineering and Computer Science’s blossoming cybersecurity programs
Posted on May 3, 2017 by Jim Hannah

Wright State is the only public institution in Ohio that offers a technical master’s degree in cybersecurity. Continue reading →