Military & Veterans

Wright State Air Force ROTC cadets help remove debris, spruce up a Dayton neighborhood

About 100 Air Force ROTC cadets from Wright State University partnered with Rebuilding Together Dayton to clean up a Dayton neighborhood. Continue reading

Fourth season of ‘Veterans Voices’ launches on WYSO

The new season of “Veterans Voices” on WYSO presents stories produced by and featuring Wright State University student veterans. Continue reading

Flight path

Wright State mass communication student Brody Beaver sets his sights on becoming an Air Force pilot

Mass communication student Brody Beaver has enlisted in the Air Force, is in the Ohio Air National Guard, has his private pilot’s license, studies aviation history and takes photos using drones. Continue reading

Graduate student appointed to state military education council

Erin Lunday, a veteran and doctoral student in the Organizational Studies Program, was appointed to the State Council on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. Continue reading

Making a difference

Cynthia Jones ’05 will donate her home to fund scholarship for Wright State students

Cynthia Jones will create a scholarship for Wright State students with financial need who are either African American or have a disability. Continue reading

Along for the ride

Wright State employees find bicycling to work invigorating, adventurous

Wright State employees bicycle to work for the exercise, to relieve stress and help the environment. Continue reading

Naval force

Wright State medical student Christiana Draper brings Navy experience to medical school, neuroengineering research

Christiana Draper, an M.D./Ph.D. student at the Boonshoft School of Medicine, won a National Institutes of Health Diversity Supplement Award to support for her ALS research. Continue reading

Wright State realigns six university centers under President’s Office

The Bolinga Black Cultural Resources Center; Office of Latinx, Asian and Native American Affairs; Women’s Center; Office of LGBTQA Affairs; Office of Disability Services; and the Veteran and Military Center will report to the chief diversity officer. Continue reading

Helping students succeed

Wright State graduate Doug Rasor and his wife, Barbara, create scholarship fund for engineering and computer science students

Doug Rasor and his wife, Barbara, hope their newly created scholarship will impact the lives of students, just as theirs was by a scholarship Doug received as a student at Wright State. Continue reading

Wright State student Ben Sanders honored at the Pentagon for his role in the Workforce Recruitment Program

An awards ceremony will also recognize Molly Fore, a Wright State grad and human resources specialist with the Air Force Materiel Command who has worked with Wright State student interns. Continue reading