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Wright State alum Joshua Cummins gets inside peek at workings of Persian Gulf nation of Qatar

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Jim Hannah

Joshua Cummins, who has degrees in history and international and comparative politics from Wright State, received first-hand lessons on the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar during a fellowship. Continue reading →

‘Jeopardy!’ watch party set for Wright State’s Emily Bingham

Posted on January 27, 2016 by Jim Hannah

The Wright State Alumni Association invites students, alumni and “Jeopardy!” fans to attend the watch party on Feb. 2. Continue reading →

Sultans of Swing will examine links between baseball, jazz and fiction

Posted on January 20, 2016 by Bob Mihalek

Series begins with a lecture on “Sports and the Absent History of the Harlem Renaissance” on Jan. 29 and a panel discussion on “Women and African-Americans in Baseball History” on Feb. 10. Continue reading →

Poetry in motion

Wright State grad students Sonora Humphreys and Sebastian Williams help edit ‘The Emily Dickinson Journal’

Posted on January 13, 2016 by Jim Hannah

Wright State graduate students Sonora Humphreys and Sebastian Williams help edit ‘The Emily Dickinson Journal’ out of the Department of English Language and Literatures. Continue reading →

After a close shave, the beardless status quo returns to politics

Christopher Oldstone-Moore, senior lecturer of history, wrote about why politicians usually do not wear beards in the Wall Street Journal. His commentary begins: “America’s highest-ranking facial hair has fallen to the razor. In November Paul Ryan made headlines when he quit … Continue reading →

Wright State wins $700,000 grant to help high school teachers earn credentials to teach college courses

Posted on January 4, 2016 by Jim Hannah

Program will cover courses in History, Composition and Rhetoric, Mathematics and Statistics, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Music and Physics. Continue reading →

Wright State student to compete on Jeopardy

Excerpt This year’s “Jeopardy! College Tournament” will include Wright State University student Emily Bingham, a senior who is studying literature and marketing. The Englewood resident will be one of 15 contestants competing Jan. 5-6 at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, … Continue reading →

Wright State’s Emily Bingham to compete in ‘Jeopardy! College Tournament’

Posted on December 15, 2015 by Jim Hannah

Senior Emily Bingham will be among the 15 students competing in the “Jeopardy! College Tournament” in January in Culver City, California. Continue reading →

Why and when men grow beards

For everyone with a hirsute family member, a bearded patriarch, a fuzzy metro-sexual, here’s a great gift, a not-entirely-serious account of why and when men grow facial hair. It’s called “Of Beards And Men,” by Christopher Oldstone-Moore. It’s a history … Continue reading →

‘Of Beards and Men’

Excerpt Dewey would have been a sympathetic audience for “Of Beards and Men,” a finely detailed, borderline obsessive history by Christopher Oldstone-Moore, who spends more than 300 pages arguing that there’s very little on which facial hair might not come … Continue reading →