Wright State in the News

Wright State to lead $11.4M statewide push to align degrees, jobs

Wright State University will spearhead the statewide project.

((Excerpt)) Wright State University will lead an $11.4 million statewide push to align degree programs and curriculum at Ohio’s public colleges with the needs of the aerospace and defense industry. The university will also embark on a ground breaking partnership … Continue reading

WSU Announces Major Investment In Aerospace Industry

((Excerpt)) FAIRBORN, Ohio — Wright State University announced Monday a major investment for Ohio’s Aerospace Industry.Ohio will invest more than $11 million to get the Jobs of Tomorrow Aerospace programs, and WSU will lead the new initiative.Funding will increase the … Continue reading

Governor wants colleges to ‘commercialize’ efforts

((Excerpt)) Earlier Monday, Wright State University took two big steps toward fulfilling Kasich’s goals for higher education, announcing a new research partnership and spearheading a statewide program to better serve Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and surrounding industries. State Sen. Bill … Continue reading

School now Ohio’s first line of defense

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((Excerpt)) FAIRBORN, Ohio (WDTN) – Their mission is to prepare students for a job in what many think is the fastest-growing field in the Miami Valley, defense and aerospace. Impossible? Not to some. “Instead of they’re done and then they … Continue reading

Wright State launches institute to grow Ohio defense workers

((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

WSU Teaming Up With Local Business

((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

Cast, director get a kick out of killer musical

((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

Ohio colleges recruit more out of state

((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

RULH students experience science during oceanography trip

((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

Book Review | ‘The Whites of their Eyes: Bunker Hill, the First American Army and the Emergence of George Washington’

((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