Research

Inquiring minds

John Cutcliffe leads renewed focus on nursing research in the College of Nursing and Health

John Cutcliffe brings his enthusiasm for research to the College of Nursing and Health as the Blanke Endowed Chair for Nursing Research and director of the Center for Nursing Research.
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Microscopic view

Wright State’s Hanna Gabriel manages the university’s imaging lab

Wright State’s Hanna Gabriel ’15 manages the new Microscopy Core Facility, housed in the university’s Neuroscience Engineering Collaboration Building. Continue reading

Wright State’s Sharmila Mukhopadhyay named prestigious Jefferson Science Fellow

Sharmila Mukhopadhyay, director of Wright State’s Center for Nano-Scale Multifunctional Materials, will help formulate and implement U.S. foreign policy. Continue reading

Sultans of Swing will examine links between baseball, jazz and fiction

Series begins with a lecture on “Sports and the Absent History of the Harlem Renaissance” on Jan. 29 and a panel discussion on “Women and African-Americans in Baseball History” on Feb. 10. Continue reading

Wright State team selected for nationwide interprofessional faculty development project

Interprofessional collaborative project includes Wright State’s Boonshoft School of Medicine, College of Nursing and Health and School of Professional Psychology, Cedarville University School of Pharmacy and Kettering College Physician Assistant Program. Continue reading

Reservoir riddle

Wright State environmental scientists investigate effectiveness of trapping greenhouse gases underground

A research team from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences has won part of a $10 million U.S. Department of Energy grant to study geologically sequestering of carbon dioxide. Continue reading

Virtual vibe

Nursing professor Sherry Farra uses virtual reality to conduct pioneering research in hospital evacuation training

Nursing professor Sherry Farra uses virtual reality to conduct pioneering research in hospital evacuation training. Continue reading

Wright State’s Allen Hunt co-authors book on new tool that offers promise in predicting global warming

A new mathematical tool promises to offer important insights into global warming by predicting soil formation and depth and the influence of soil on vegetation growth. Continue reading

Nursing professors honored for research on bath salts and pregnancy

Wright State nursing faculty members honored for providing vital information to health care professionals about the effects bath salts can have on pregnant women and their babies. Continue reading

‘Of Beards and Men’

Christopher Oldstone-Moore

Excerpt Dewey would have been a sympathetic audience for “Of Beards and Men,” a finely detailed, borderline obsessive history by Christopher Oldstone-Moore, who spends more than 300 pages arguing that there’s very little on which facial hair might not come … Continue reading