Faculty & Staff

Jacqueline McMillan to retire as Vice President for Enrollment Management

Jacqueline McMillan, Ph.D., has announced that she will retire as Vice President for Enrollment Management on December 31, 2013, after serving for more than 30 years at Wright State University. Continue reading

Student Support Services director earns Greene County Community Service Award

Katie Deedrick, Wright State’s Office of Student Support Services director, is often the first person in line to help a student who has been victimized. Continue reading

Wright State University Network for Educational Renewal Conference slated for April 20

Gregory Bernhardt, interim director of the National Network for Educational Renewal, will headline an April 20 conference at Wright State University expected to draw more than 200 educators… Continue reading

Obituary: Wright State English professor Norm Cary

One of Wright State University’s first English professors  passed away April 13 at Hospice of Dayton. Norm Cary had been battling cancer for over a year. Cary first came to Wright State as an instructor in 1967 and successfully defended … Continue reading

Marjorie Bowman welcomed as dean of Boonshoft School of Medicine

Deans and chairs from the Boonshoft School of Medicine officially welcomed Marjorie Bowman as dean of the school during a reception in the atrium of White Hall on March 4. Continue reading

Political science experts team up for book on corruption

Photo of political science professor Charles Funderburk with the book Political Corruption in Comparative Perspective, which he and six other faculty members partnered to produce.

When political science professor Charles Funderburk came up with the idea to write a book on political corruption, several other Wright State faculty members expressed… Continue reading

26 Wright State Physicians, faculty of the Wright State Boonshoft School of Medicine named 2013 Best Doctors in America

Twenty-six Wright State Physicians and faculty of the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine were named to the 2013 Best Doctors® in Americalist. Continue reading

Reichert/Bognar documentary set to air on PBS and at Lincoln Center

Sparkle, a short documentary by celebrated Wright State filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar, will appear on national television Feb. 7, airing on PBS. Continue reading

Wright State engineering professor named finalist for prestigious operations research award

Photo of Xinhui Zhang, Wright State University associate professor of biomedical, industrial and human factors engineering

It’s the Super Bowl of operations research—the competition for the Franz Edelman Award for achievement in operations research… Continue reading

Falling for skydiving—Golden Knight style

Photo of Wright State's Herb Dregalla (in yellow suit) skydiving with an Army Golden Knight

He felt the speed and the wind in his face. But he didn’t feel like he was falling. He was—from 14,000 feet at 120 miles an hour. Herb Dregalla, Ph.D., interim associate provost for Undergraduate Studies, dropped from the Texas … Continue reading