Faculty & Staff

Orthopaedic surgery faculty member named co-chair of Operation Smile Burns Program

Michael Johnson, M.D., will work to help individuals in developing areas of the world who suffer from correctable burn-related deformities. Continue reading

Wright State community remembers Betty Yung

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Professor Betty Yung, 67, of Kettering, passed away on Thursday, June 14. Continue reading

Yaklic named acting chair of Boonshoft School of Medicine Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

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Yaklic has been a full-time faculty member in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology for more than six years, where he has served as medical director for Wright State Physicians Women’s Health Care. Continue reading

Mary Hysell Lynd, Ph.D., R.N., C.N.L., will be inducted as a Fellow in the Academy of Nursing Education at the National League of Nursing Summit in September 2012. Lynd is an adjunct professor and a professor emerita in the Wright … Continue reading

Patch Adams, M.D., to deliver Boonshoft School of Medicine commencement address

Ninety-five graduates will receive their hard-earned medical degrees at 32nd commencement this evening

The 95 members of the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine class of 2012 will be awarded M.D. degrees during the school’s commencement ceremony on May 25. Continue reading

Vietnamese refugee Caroline Cao boosts Wright State’s expertise in medical imaging and human-factors engineering

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It was post-war Saigon—deep in the night. Ten-year-old Caroline Cao and her family quietly slipped out of their home and made for the coast. Continue reading

Wright State’s Thaddeus Tarpey honored nationally for statistics work

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Odds are that Wright State professor Thaddeus Tarpey would land in the statistics hall of fame sooner or later. Looks like sooner. Continue reading

Li named dean of Raj Soin College of Business

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Joanne Li, professor and chair of the Department of Finance at Towson University in Maryland, has been named dean of Wright State University’s Raj Soin College of Business. Continue reading

Film professors’ work now part of Duke University archives

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The pioneering films of Julia Reichert and Jim Klein are part of a collection added to Duke’s Archive of Documentary Arts. Continue reading

Bruce Cromer, professor of Acting and Movement in the Department of Theatre Arts, Dance, and Motion Pictures, will play Dan in the Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati’s rock musical “Next to Normal” during the second and third weeks of June.  This … Continue reading