Wright State in the News

Across the country, there are an estimated 30 million deer that eat the equivalent of 15 million metric tons of vegetation every year — greater than the combined weight of all the aircraft carriers in the Navy, according to Tom Rooney, a biological sciences professor at Wright State University in Ohio. Continue reading →

Excerpt They are the echoes of history, voices that defined the Civil Rights and Vietnam War eras. Martin Luther King Jr. Ralph David Abernathy. Clyde Bellecourt. César Chávez. Stokely Carmichael. Susan Sontag. Even members of the radical militant Weather Underground. … Continue reading →

Excerpt When Donald Altstaetter was growing up, not far from Middletown, Ohio, he overheard a mysterious conversation between a local landowner and a hunter. The landowner was willing to allow the hunter onto his property, but only if he stayed … Continue reading →

Excerpt Nearly a decade into his life sentence for murder, Lydell Grant was escorted out of a Texas prison in November with his hands held high, free on bail, all thanks to DNA re-examined by a software program. “The last nine years, … Continue reading →

Sarah DeLappe’s outstanding 2017 Pulitzer Prize-nominated drama “The Wolves,” a contemporary, coming-of-age character study about a girls’ indoor soccer team, has received an excellent local premiere at Wright State University. In this delightfully chatty and incredibly insightful one-act, nine nameless … Continue reading →

Excerpt One of the largest universities in Dayton now has more funding to assist students who wish to pursue careers in engineering and computer science. Wright State University announced Thursday it recently liquidated a trust valued at nearly $2.5 million to … Continue reading →

Excerpt Two Dayton-area universities will receive more than $700,000 this year from a state-sponsored funding pool designed to advance collaborative research in several areas. Wright State University and the University of Dayton were among nine universities and one hospital that will each receive … Continue reading →

Excerpt Throughout February, Wright State University’s Bolinga Black Cultural Resources Center will host a series of lectures to celebrate Black History Month. The events are open to all Wright State students, faculty and staff and the public. Black History Month … Continue reading →

Excerpt The leaders of Wright State University, CareSource, and OneFifteen have been selected to a national list of executives to watch for 2020. Influencers: People We’re Watching in 2020 offers a list of executives poised to be in the headlines … Continue reading →

Excerpt Tom Traynor is a leader in Dayton’s business education scene. Traynor, dean of the Raj Soin College of Business at Wright State University, has been with Wright State since 1988 and was named a professor of economics in 2003. He … Continue reading →