Wright State in the News

((Excerpt)) FAIRBORN — A Dayton region consortium will invest $5 million on UAV test equipment in a bid to win more lucrative Air Force Research Laboratory deals which last year awarded $2.1 billion in contracts, officials said. The newly renamed … Continue reading →

((Excerpt)) program will provide 30 scholarships and guarantee an internship with a regional employer, the school announced Friday. The program — the Dean’s AFRL-Industry Experiential Learning Assistantship­ — is geared toward recruiting and retaining high-quality Ohio high school students to … Continue reading →

((Excerpt)) Advocates of a name switch for post-traumatic stress disorder want to change the term “disorder” to “injury” to reduce the stigma of the treatable illness and urge reluctant military service members who suffer from PTSD to seek help, authorities … Continue reading →

((Excerpt)) The Wright State University Chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery will host its second annual high school programming contest from 9:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. May 12 on the university campus. Contestants will be challenged to solve as … Continue reading →

((Excerpt)) Wright State Univ. researchers led by physics Prof. Elliott Brown have been investigating these unique THz DNA signatures through a Multidisciplinary Univ. Research Initiative (MURI) funded by the U.S. Army Research Office. Their multi-year $600,000 grant has recently identified … Continue reading →

((Excerpt)) Thaddeus Tarpey, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio For influential contributions to statistical research and applications, particularly in the areas of multivariate analysis and for excellence in teaching and dissemination of statistical knowledge. Read more at Yahoo.com

((Excerpt)) If you want to keep plant operators performing at optimal levels, how many alarms should you try to hold your system to? What’s the best way to present procedures to those operators so they know what to do when … Continue reading →

((Excerpt)) Wright State University has named an interim dean for its College of Liberal Arts after an initial search did not yield a finalist. Linda Caron, the associate dean, will begin serving as interim dean July 1. The committee searching … Continue reading →

((Excerpt)) Other research with similar goals is under way. Mary Fendley, a Wright State University researcher in human factors engineering, said she designed a process through an Air Force Research Laboratory-supported project to help analysts examining images from intelligence sources … Continue reading →

((Excerpt)) Wright State University President David Hopkins said there were many concerns about the proposed funding cuts. During a meeting Monday with the Wright State faculty senate, he said the plan had “met its end for a while.” “The idea … Continue reading →