Research

WSRI contract is largest award in Wright State history

Posted on August 14, 2015 by Wright State Media Team

WSRI’s contract on “Human-Machine Teaming for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Analysis” from the Air Force Research Lab could total $42.5 million. Continue reading →

Wright State students survey parcel to parcel in Dayton

Posted on August 14, 2015 by Kris Sproles

Wright State students are conducting a property survey in Dayton to help city planners address blight, vacancy and other concerns that city officials and residents have identified. Continue reading →

Search party

Wright State’s Weiwen Long and his research team are on the hunt for mysteries of gene that affects cancer

Posted on August 13, 2015 by Jim Hannah

Wright State researcher Weiwen Long received a $1.7 million, five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute to research a gene that plays an important role in the formation and spread of lung cancer and other cancers. Continue reading →

Wright State basic and applied research operations, leadership consolidated

Posted on August 11, 2015 by Wright State Media Team

Research capabilities and leadership at Wright State will be further strengthened as a result of developments announced recently by Vice President for Research Robert Fyffe. Continue reading →

Visit of Chinese museum officials may lead to growth in partnership with Wright State

Posted on August 3, 2015 by Jim Hannah

Wright State’s partnership with the Museum of Terracotta Soldiers and Horses of Shi-Huang-Di in China may expand in the wake of a visit to the university by museum officials. Continue reading →

Aha moments

Philosophy professor William Irvine authors book on world-changing insights

Posted on July 28, 2015 by Jim Hannah

Latest book by Wright State philosophy professor William Irvine examines moments of insight that shape the world. Continue reading →

$20 million for Wright State meant to grow Ohio research

Excerpt A $20 million earmark in the state budget will allow Wright State University to set up a statewide network to score a bigger slice of federal research funding. Wright State Applied Research Corporation will use most of the money … Continue reading →

Wright State’s Tamera Schneider to take prestigious rotating scientist position at National Science Foundation

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Jim Hannah

Wright State psychology professor Tamera Schneider will direct the National Science Foundation’s social psychology program in the Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences. Continue reading →

Attack on white fringetree by emerald ash borer likely to be widespread, says Wright State researcher

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Jim Hannah

Don Cipollini holding piece of white fringetree affected by emerald ash borer

Wright State biology professor Don Cipollini suggests use of white fringetree by emerald ash borer is likely to be widespread and that the beetle may move to close relatives. Continue reading →

Q&A: Dean of Wright State’s Boonshoft School of Medicine talks research, challenges

Excerpt Wright State University’s Boonshoft School of Medicine is entering a new era of research, thanks to its new Neuroscience Engineering Collaboration center. Putting 30 researchers from six disciplines together to investigate brain, spinal cord and nerve disorders could take … Continue reading →