Liberal Arts

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 →

Fall 2015 commencement in photos

Posted on December 20, 2015 by Bob Mihalek

Wright State University honored more than 1,200 graduates at its 82nd commencement ceremony in the Nutter Center Dec 19. Continue reading →

Wright State University graduates urged to change a troubled world, work for peace

Posted on December 19, 2015 by Jim Hannah

Graduating Wright State students were praised as a special group who believe in standing up for others and urged to work for peace during fall commencement at the Nutter Center on Dec. 19. Continue reading →

More than 1,200 to graduate at Wright State’s fall commencement

Posted on December 18, 2015 by Jim Hannah

Wright State’s winter commencement ceremony takes place Saturday, Dec. 19, at 10 a.m. in the Wright State Nutter Center. 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 →

Mail call

Wright State’s Colleen Kelsey teaching students the skill of mail art

Posted on December 7, 2015 by Jim Hannah

Colleen Kelsey, adjunct art instructor at Wright State, is teaching students the skill of mail art. 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 →

Adam Pascal Bound for Wright State

Excerpt Tony Award nominee Adam Pascal, one of the finest pop/rock voices in contemporary musical theatre who garnered acclaim in Jonathan Larson’s groundbreaking 1996 Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical “Rent,” will perform a special acoustic concert Wednesday, Dec. 2 at … Continue reading →