Academics

Wright State’s Allen Hunt co-authors book on new tool that offers promise in predicting global warming

A new mathematical tool promises to offer important insights into global warming by predicting soil formation and depth and the influence of soil on vegetation growth. Continue reading

Why and when men grow beards

Christopher Oldstone-Moore

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

Writing whiz

Sophomore Chloe Schwartz helps fellow students build skills as a coach at the Writing Center in the Student Success Center

Sophomore Chloe Schwartz helps fellow students build skills as a coach at the Writing Center in Wright State’s Student Success Center. Continue reading

Education’s lifeguard

Program expansion, partnerships are retiring Dean Charlotte Harris' legacy

Charlotte Harris, who will retire as dean of the College of Education and Human Services at the end of the year, reflects on her career in academia. Continue reading

Wright State among nation’s top universities in providing students with upward social mobility

Wright State University ranks among the top 17 percent of colleges and universities in the nation in providing upward economic and social mobility to its students. Continue reading

Wright State engineering students help make ceremonial switch for Dayton’s holiday tree

Three Wright State University electrical engineering students worked with DP&L to create a light switch for the Grande Illumination Ceremony on Courthouse Square in Dayton. Continue reading

Lake Campus offering a four-year bachelor degree in nursing

Lynn Frank, director of the nursing program at Wright State’s Lake Campus, discusses the campus’ new four-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing program. Watch the interview with WLIO.

Diplomatically speaking

Wright State alum Jeff Austin '98 making a splash with State Department

Diplomatic career with the Department of State has taken Jeff Austin ’98 to Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Tajikstan and the United Nations. Continue reading

Ashes to action

Medicine and the Holocaust focus of course for Wright State medical students

Medical students study the Holocaust to try to understand how physicians could ever be part of euthanasia, medical experimentation, torture and mass extermination. Continue reading

Mail call

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

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