Science & Mathematics

College of Science and Mathematics Dean’s Circle reaches out

Photo of Dean's Circle students at a Q&A event for COSM at Raider Open House.

At last Saturday’s Raider Open House, some special students from Wright State Unversity’s College of Science and Mathematics… Continue reading

Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology to host Nobel Prize winner for lecture

Photo of Sire Paul Nurse.

The Wright State University Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology will present Sir Paul Nurse, Ph.D., the Nobel prize winner who discovered genes that control cell division… Continue reading

Psychology professor attends HERS Institute in Denver

Headshot of Tamera Schneider.

HERS is the premier residential professional development program dedicated to advancing women leaders in higher education administration. Continue reading

$5 million software gift to Wright State training geologists of the future

Photo of Ernest Hauser, Ph.D., showing students the benefits of the new software.

In a Wright State University lab, seismic and well log information fed into a computer are blooming into colorful… Continue reading

Wright State student awarded $6,000 scholarship from Dayton Defense Educational Foundation

A Wright State University student who served in the Air Force, was deployed to Iraq and is pursuing a military-related career has won a $6,000 scholarship… Continue reading

Fishing for mercury contamination answers

Photo of Chad Hammerschmidt Environmental Science Professor

Inside three freezers in a Wright State University lab is the bottom of the ocean. Continue reading

North American wolf empowers flowers

Photo of the large-flowered white trillium, a wildflower that grows in the forests of the upper Midwest.

A lush thicket several feet high flanks a clearing on the forest floor. A marsh lies on the other side… Continue reading

Researcher gets major funding to investigate premature births

Photo of Wright State research Thomas Brown.

Preterm babies are born earlier than 37 weeks into a normal 40-week pregnancy, however exactly what causes premature births has long baffled experts. Continue reading

Wright State student to study stem cells at San Diego’s Salk Institute

Photo of Wright State President David R. Hopkins and Aaron Shank.

Wright State University biomedical engineering student Aaron Shank had been accepted to one of the most prestigious… Continue reading

Wright State students working to preserve rare Himalayan animal

Photo of professor Thomas Rooney holding a book in front of a book case.

A rare Himalayan goat-like animal called the grey goral… Continue reading