Wright State Headlines
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Jun 6
Wright State offering training sessions for education professionals and students this summer
The Summer Partnership Institute and Summer Equity Institute include 20 education-focused learning opportunities. Continue reading
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Jun 5
Raiders’ season ends in Terre Haute NCAA Regional
The Wright State baseball program’s season came to an end in the Terre Haute NCAA Regional after the Raiders lost 5–0 to North Carolina and 6–5 to Indiana State. Continue reading
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Jun 2
Wright State professor helping to develop AI learning environments
Noah Schroeder, professor of educational technology and instructional design, will receive a grant to design AI-driven pedagogical agents to help support students’ noncognitive skills. Continue reading
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Jun 1
Wright State marketing professor presents new book at Kenyan embassy
“Doing Business in Kenya: Opportunities and Challenges,” by Wakiuru Wamwara, professor of marketing, provides a comprehensive analysis of the business environment in Kenya. Continue reading
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May 31
Deep roots
Brooke Solomito uses skills she learned as an organizational leadership student at Wright State to run a successful hot dog stand in Butler County. Continue reading
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Special Collections and Archives
From the Stacks: A View of Dayton
Lining up telephone poles and the landscape
Photos documenting the locations of telephone poles and lines in Dayton and rural Montgomery County in 1923 provide snapshots in time, often depicting major road intersections and the surrounding land and buildings. Continue reading
Ermal Fraze: the essence of a ‘can’-do entrepreneur
From the Stacks: Learn about Dayton entrepreneur Ermal Fraze, who designed the pull-off tab and push-in and fold-back tab on aluminum cans. Continue reading
Innovative spirit
Wright Brothers Day featured innovative research and demonstrations from Wright State faculty and students and local organizations. Continue reading
Annual Wright Brothers Day will celebrate campus and community innovators
Wright Brothers Day takes place Wednesday, Oct. 5, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Student Union Atrium. Continue reading
Wright State receives grant to digitize local program featuring prominent civil rights figures
Thanks to a grant from the Ohio Historical Records Advisory Board, Wright State’s Special Collections and Archives will digitize videocassettes of the weekly television program, “Like It Is.” Continue reading
The Wright brothers’ mechanician
Charles “Charlie” Taylor, the Wrights’ mechanician, designed and built the engine used during the first successful flight. Continue reading
Historic photo collection of Rike’s holiday window displays housed in Wright State’s Special Collections and Archives
Rike’s donated the photos to the Special Collections and Archives in 1988. Continue reading
From the Stacks: 150 years of Paul Laurence Dunbar
The University Libraries will host several events into 2022 to celebrate 150 years of the life and work of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. Continue reading
A woman’s crusade
Martha McClellan Brown and Ohio’s roots in the temperance movement
From the Stacks: A look at the Martha McClellan Brown collection in the University Libraries Special Collections and Archives. Continue reading
Wright State University Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives receives grant to improve its digitized Wright Brothers Collection
Special Collections and Archives will use the grant to prepare the Wright Brothers Collection for the Ohio Digital Network and the Digital Public Library of America. Continue reading
