Wright State Headlines
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Dec 14
More than 1,400 students graduate at Wright State’s 2019 fall commencement
Graduating students and their families celebrated the culmination of their education at Wright State University Dec. 14 during the 2019 fall commencement ceremony at the Wright State Nutter Center. Continue reading
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Dec 13
Wright State medical student participates in prestigious Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation program
Kyle Henneke, M.D./M.P.H. student at the Boonshoft School of Medicine, learned about treating patients with addictions at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation. Continue reading
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Dec 13
Brian Rigling named dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science
Brian Rigling had served as interim dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science since July 2018. Continue reading
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Dec 12
Wright State awarded nearly $1 million in Choose Ohio First grants for computer science scholarships
The grant from the Ohio Department of Higher Education will help support student recruitment and continuation for the first two academic years. Continue reading
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Dec 12
Holiday help
The Wright State community collected hundreds of toys and other items for children in Greene County through the university’s annual Adopt a Family gift drive. 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
