Wright State in the News

((Excerpt)) The Wright State Research Institute will lead a new $11.4 million initiative to bolster Ohio’s aerospace and defense workforce. On Monday, officials announced the institute is launching a Defense Aerospace Graduate Studies Institute, which will work with other schools … Continue reading →

((Excerpt)) FAIRBORN — Wright State University is teaming up with a local  booming business.   Mound Laser and Photonics Center and W.S.U. will share a faculty member splitting the person’s salary and benefits. DaytonsNewsSource.com

((Excerpt)) Dionysia Williams, a graduate of Wright State University near Dayton who spent a year in the Professional Touring Company associated with the troupe, has re-created the Fosse choreography. ColumbusDispatch.com

((Excerpt)) Local institutions such as Wright State and Central State universities, which have a mission of providing affordable access to college, are also developing programs to recruit more aggressively out-of-state. Central State, already a nationally known historically black university, is … Continue reading →

((Excerpt)) RIPLEY, Ohio — A select group of students from Ripley Union Lewis Huntington Middle School got to do more than study science this summer. They were able to interact with it while on an oceanography trip sponsored by two … Continue reading →

((Excerpt)) Politicians are always invoking America’s founding — and often getting it wrong.The truth is, though, nearly all of us get the facts wrong, too. In “The Whites of Their Eyes,” Wright State University history professor Paul Lockhart clears up … Continue reading →

((Excerpt)) The CareSource Foundation recently awarded a $150,000 signature grant to the Montgomery County Ohio College Promise Program. Through the College Promise Program, students are paired with mentors to improve or uphold school attendance, grades and behavior. Students who fulfill … Continue reading →

((Excerpt)) Splendid collaborations, promising new works, compelling dramas and knockout regional and local premieres impressively accented Dayton’s strong, refreshingly progressive 2010-11 theater season. I attended nearly 70 shows over the past 12 months, and unsurprisingly, the triumphs outweighed the troubled. … Continue reading →

((Excerpt)) Why Are the Walls Screaming?” is the title of an art show up now in the Yellow Springs Arts Council Gallery. The artist, Wright State student Tony Powers, is a synesthete. (sin-uh s-theet) That means, when Powers hears a … Continue reading →

((Excerpt)) DaShaun Wood arrived in Germany, and it felt more like home. “It’s way more Americanized,” said Wood, the former Wright State basketball standout who left Italy for Germany last summer. “More people speak English, and they just have a … Continue reading →