Wright State Headlines
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Jan 27
Employer Speaker Series brings Federal Reserve Bank to Wright State
The Employer Speaker Series will feature a talk by Wright State grad Jenni Frazie on Tuesday, Jan. 28, in 143 Medical Sciences at 11:30 a.m. Continue reading
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Jan 27
Year of the Rat
The Wright State University Office of Latinx, Asian and Native American Affairs hosted a celebration to welcome the 2020 Lunar New Year. Continue reading
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Jan 24
Rising tide
“RISING: Women in American Culture since Suffrage” is a semester-long commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. Continue reading
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Jan 24
Boonshoft School of Medicine to celebrate 40th anniversary throughout 2020
Boonshoft School of Medicine’s yearlong celebration includes many events in Dayton and around the country and a special all-class reunion on May 15–17. Continue reading
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Jan 23
Boonshoft School of Medicine begins three-year track to M.D. degree
Students admitted to the three-year track will receive conditional admittance to a Wright State residency program, starting with the Departments of Family Medicine and Pediatrics. Continue reading
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Special Collections and Archives
GE features Wright State Special Collections and Archives in latest aviation blog post
Call it luck, coincidence or divine providence, but just up the road from GE Aviation’s Evendale, Ohio, headquarters sits Wright State University’s Special Collections and Archives, home to the Wright Brothers Collection. Continue reading
Unforgettable
Wright State Special Collections and Archives boast materials on Neil Armstrong’s historic moonwalk
To commemorate the 50th university of the first moon landing, Wright State’s Special Collections and Archives gathered materials related to the Apollo 11 mission from its collections. Continue reading
Strolling down memory lane
Retired Wright State professor Gary Barlow helps preserve the university’s priceless history with his gift to the Archives Center
In appreciation of his gift to the Discover Your Story campaign, one of the rooms in the Archives Center will be named the Dr. Gary Barlow Conference Room. Continue reading
Saving our history
Linda Black-Kurek ’78 fulfills her passion for the Dayton community and her alma mater by supporting the new Wright State University Archives Center
The exhibit gallery in the future Archives Center will be named the Linda Black-Kurek Family Foundation Exhibit Gallery where rotating exhibitions will showcase the depth of the collections. Continue reading
Historical handwriting
Wright State Archives giving the world online access to the diaries of Wright brothers’ father, Milton
Sixty years of diary entries by Milton Wright, father of Wilbur and Orville, will be published online by Wright State’s Special Collections and Archives. Continue reading
Bringing history to life
Wright State University launches $6.5 million fundraising campaign to create a new home for priceless archives
Discover Your Story will transform the former corporate headquarters of the Wright-Patt Credit Union at 2455 Presidential Drive into the new home of Special Collections and Archives. Continue reading
Dissenting opinion
Wright State part of national effort to archive history of student activism and dissent
Wright State is participating in Project STAND, which will create an online clearinghouse of digital and analog papers, manuscripts, diaries, photographs and other content related to student activism and dissent. Continue reading
Propeller prescription
Wright State Archives’ historic 1912 Wright brothers propeller gets a makeover
Wright State’s Special Collections and Archives holds a successful fundraising campaign to preserve a 1912 Wright Flyer propeller. Continue reading
Wright State grad Ann Weisgarber to give keynote at annual Public History Symposium
The seventh annual Public History Symposium takes place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Discovery Room of the Student Union. Continue reading
Wright State’s archives receives one-of-a-kind bust of acclaimed poet and novelist Paul Laurence Dunbar
The bust will be displayed along with exhibits of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s works at Wright State’s Special Collections and Archives during a reception and program on Feb. 21 beginning at 3:30 p.m. Continue reading
