Wright State in the News

Wright State lands $4.6M grant to study nerve injury

Excerpt Wright State University has landed a $4.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to help improve the movement of badly injured limbs. The grant is one of only two of its type awarded this year by the … Continue reading →

P&G taps Wright State for students with disabilities

Excerpt Procter & Gamble Co. is partnering with Wright State University in Dayton to create internship and job opportunities for students with disabilities. The partnership is an outgrowth of a P&G group that works with company management to attract qualified … Continue reading →

P&G partners with Wright State on internships, jobs

Excerpt Procter & Gamble Co. is partnering with Wright State University to fill internships and jobs with students who have disabilities. The agreement stems from a P&G (NYSE: PG) group that includes employees with disabilities, relatives of people who have … Continue reading →

Shot from difficult angle propels Wright State to Horizon League title game

Excerpt He was supposed to feed J.T. Yoho in the post but the freshman forward wasn’t open. Then he tried driving baseline but two defenders cut off his path to the rim. Yes, really nothing about Wright State’s final possession … Continue reading →

Wright State wins $4.6M neuroscience research grant

((Excerpt)) Wright State University has won a $4.6 million National Institutes of Health grant for neuroscience research aimed at improving the movement of badly injured limbs, officials said Thursday. The five-year grant will build on the university’s previous nerve injury … Continue reading →

Snowy Wright State picture

Bicycles are parked outside Hamilton Hall dorms are covered in snow after a storm passed the area Wednesday at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. Check out the picture at Columbian.com

Two Wright State Filmmakers Reinvent Their Approach for “Reinvention Stories,” a Web Documentary

((Excerpt)) Filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar (Personal Belongings, POV 1996) documented the effects of the recession in Ohio in their Oscar-nominated 2009 film, The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant, but Reinvention Stories is new to their body … Continue reading →

Wright State grad finds a publishing home

((Excerpt)) Mindee Arnett, soon-to-be newly published author, says she owes her youthful epiphany (that she could write stories) to her sixth-grade teacher in Kettering. “I always loved to read from the time I was a little girl,” Mindee says, “and … Continue reading →

Innovative Tools—And Long-Term Funding—Needed to Transform Undergraduate Science Education

((Excerpt)) Nathan Klingbeil and his colleagues at Wright State University have found a way to double the graduation rate of engineering students. The key element is modifying how and when calculus is taught, so that it is not a barrier … Continue reading →

Wright State medical students volunteer their time to rebuild New Orleans

((Excerpt)) An estimated 26 million people will descend on New Orleans in 2013; according to a report by the Tourism Industry Association and the Louisiana Department of Culture Recreation and Tourism, and 52 students from WSU’s Boonshoft School of Medicine … Continue reading →