Giving

Preserving history

Wright State University launches $6.5 million fundraising campaign to create a new home for priceless archives
Posted on October 5, 2017 by Kim Patton

Discover Your Story: The Campaign for the Wright State University Archives Center will provide a new home for the university’s world-renowned Special Collections and Archives. Continue reading →

First-year medical student interested in serving rural areas

Posted on October 3, 2017 by Daniel Kelly

Tricia Warnecke’s road to the Boonshoft School of Medicine began with a broken foot when she was 10. Continue reading →

ONEIL Center for Research Communication opens at Wright State University

Posted on September 20, 2017 by Jim Hannah

The center will strengthen technical communication by scientists and engineers while giving students from other disciplines a place to develop the art of research communication. Continue reading →

Flying Fishes

Wright State super alums establish legacy scholarship in the name of their sister
Posted on September 15, 2017 by Jim Hannah

The four Fish sisters were highly involved in campus life as Wright State students in the 1970s. Continue reading →

English enthusiasm

After a 10-year break, Samantha Cornett returned to Wright State and is now thriving in the English program
Posted on September 5, 2017 by Jim Hannah

After a 10-year break, Samantha Cornett returned to Wright State and is now thriving in the English program. Continue reading →

Book banquet

Special honorary funds enable Wright State’s Dunbar Library to enrich collection on designated topics
Posted on July 24, 2017 by Jim Hannah

Established by English chair Carol Loranger, the Loretta M. Schaechterle Book Fund provides books and multimedia materials that promote an understanding of the lives of women in the United States. Continue reading →

Travel scholarship helped medical school graduate aid refugees

Posted on June 28, 2017 by Daniel Kelly

Christopher Champlin traveled to Greece to work with Emergency Response Centre International, a NGO that provides assistance to refugees from Turkey. Continue reading →

Grand slam

Wright State practice room named for alum Marilee King, stickler for making sons hone piano skills on baby grand
Posted on June 23, 2017 by Jim Hannah

Practice room in the Creative Arts Center honors Marilee King, who graduated from Wright State University in 1969 and who instilled a strong work ethic in her three sons. Continue reading →

Accounting principles

Maggie Houston caps teaching career with scholarship designed to help nontraditional female accounting students at Wright State
Posted on June 15, 2017 by Jim Hannah

Even in retirement, long-time accountancy instructor Maggie Houston continues to place the welfare of her students above all else. Continue reading →

Lake Campus breaks ground for Agriculture and Water Quality Center

Posted on May 31, 2017 by Jim Hannah

The center will provide classroom space for the growing agriculture program; a research and laboratory area for applied learning and research on agricultural and water quality issues; and a facility for community meetings. Continue reading →