Wright State in the News

Excerpt With companies like Crown Equipment in Auglaize County needing engineers and demand in the field expanding, Aaron Freeman a Senior Engineering student at the Wright State University Lake Campus says he was excited to see engineering become a major … Continue reading →

Excerpt As of this week, Wright State University’s Office of the Bursar is moving all payments and transactions online. The move, part of a larger consolidation effort to streamline services, will see the walk-up windows at the office closed as … Continue reading →

Excerpt Let the coffee wars at Wright State University begin. This fall, Starbucks, Seattle’s Best and Caribou Coffee are all coming to campus. They will be joined by other big names: Jamba Juice, Denny’s All-Nighter, Pizza Hut Express and Au … Continue reading →

Excerpt The Wright State Research Institute’s new director said he plans to double the organization’s full-time staff and $20 million research portfolio over the next five years. “We are going to grow the region by growing ourselves and growing Wright … Continue reading →

Excerpt Technology-driven efforts are on to crowdsource information using the Internet and other communication channels and integrate it into online maps to help manage the aftermath of the natural calamity that has beset Uttarakhand. The international experience in recent years … Continue reading →

Excerpt Founded just six years ago, the Wright State Research Institute has since exploded 550 percent of its original size and workload, with 70 full-time employees and a research portfolio of $20 million. But as he takes the reins as … Continue reading →

Excerpt Two professors from Wright State University have been awarded highly competitive grants from the U.S. Air Force for research equipment. Madhavi Kadakia, associate director of Wright State’s Center for Genomics Research, received $338,000 for genomic tools. Her lab works … Continue reading →

Excerpt Technology-driven efforts are on to crowdsource information using the Internet and other communication channels and integrate it into online maps to help manage the aftermath of the natural calamity that has beset Uttarakhand. The international experience in recent years … Continue reading →

Whoever coined the phrase “Summertime and the living is easy” apparently never participated in a sports camp. Case in point, the Billy Donlon Basketball Camp out at the Nutter Center. More than a hundred participants are sharpening their skills on … Continue reading →

Excerpt Twitris—the techy marriage of “Twitter” and “Tetris”—is a platform that aims to help civil society win the “game” of big data, creating layers and layers of analysis that provides a holistic picture of an event. The idea for Twitris … Continue reading →