Wright State Headlines
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Dec 20
Wright State to launch mobile street medicine project for underserved patients in Dayton
Wright State’s Boonshoft School of Medicine will collaborate with Premier Health to provide health care services to people with substance use disorders through a mobile community-based health care, or street medicine, model. Continue reading
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Dec 19
Top 10 Wright State Newsroom videos of 2024
The Wright State Newsroom shared once-in-a-lifetime moments with students, faculty and staff while making joyful connections with alumni during 2024. Continue reading
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Dec 18
2025 Alumni Achievement Awards celebrate distinguished Wright State community members
The Wright State University Alumni Association recognized the accomplishments of Wright State alumni and friends with its 2025 Alumni Achievement Awards. Continue reading
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Dec 17
Wright State alum partners with alma mater to brew a Raider-branded beer
Fans can now enjoy Wright State University-branded beer while cheering on the Raiders. Continue reading
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Dec 17
Expanded agreement provides Air Force researchers more access to work on Wright State’s campus
Researchers from the Air Force Research Laboratory and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base now have access to work throughout Wright State University’s campus. Continue reading
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Special Collections and Archives
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Image from Dunbar Library archives inspires Wright State’s Gino Pasi to make a movie
An image from Special Collections and Archives inspires Wright State archivist Gino Pasi to make a movie. Continue reading
Wright newspapers to be digitized, preserved
Excerpt Before they invented the airplane — before they even ran a business fixing bicycles — the Wright brothers wrote and published newspapers, of all things. As printers between 1889 and 1899, the brothers followed and wrote about local events … Continue reading
Wright Brothers legacy archived at Wright State University
WYSO looks at the Wright brothers’ legacy in the Miami Valley in an interview with Dawne Dewey at Wright State University — home to the largest collection of Wright brothers artifacts in the world. In the following interview, Dewey, who is the head … Continue reading
Newspapers published by Wright brothers now available in online archive
Wright State’s Special Collections and Archives and the Dayton Metro Library partner to create a searchable online archive of the most complete run of Wright brothers newspapers available to date. Continue reading
The Wright brothers and the conquest of flight
Excerpt “They had this passion, this mission; they were obsessed to succeed,” said historian David McCullough. But though their plane is proudly displayed at the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum in Washington, historian David McCullough still believes the Wright Brothers … Continue reading
CBS Sunday Morning ‘Wright Brothers’ interview filmed at Wright State
Excerpt Historical author David McCullough’s book on the Wright brothers is set to be released by publisher Simon & Schuster Tuesday. But first, an interview with McCullough — a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling writer — … Continue reading
Wright Brothers Collection featured in ‘CBS Sunday Morning’ story
Wright State’s Special Collections and Archives hosted David McCullough and a “CBS Sunday Morning” crew for an interview on the author’s new Wright brothers book. Continue reading
Aviation filmmaker, Wright State grad to give keynote at Public History Symposium
Wright State’s Public History Graduate Symposium will explore “History Through a Prism: Untold Stories” on March 13. Continue reading
Search unearths story of Wright factory seamstress
Excerpt An effort to gather the stories of Wright Company factory workers has uncovered information about one of the first women in the world to work in the aircraft industry. Ida Holdgreve, born in Delphos, Ohio in 1881, worked as … Continue reading
Dayton Daily News columnist Dale Huffman to lecture at Wright State
Newspaper columnist Dale Huffman will deliver the fifth annual “Living Legends of the Dayton Daily News Archives” lecture at Wright State July 18. Continue reading
