Wright State in the News

If you’ve been keeping record of your thoughts, feelings and daily activities during the coronavirus pandemic, they will be valuable to future generations. Archives across the country, including Wright State University Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives, have put out a … Continue reading →

Excerpt Despite the fact that Wright State University’s ArtsGala, set to take place on Saturday, March 28, has been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, the shows still must go on — virtually, that is. For the past two decades, … Continue reading →

Gary LeRoy, associate professor of family medicine and associate dean of student affairs and admissions with the Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, discussed routine doctor visits during the coronavirus pandemic with US News & World Report. “What we … Continue reading →

Excerpt To help students facing financial, health and safety issues during the coronavirus outbreak, Wright State University started the Student Emergency Relief Campaign. Created through the Wright State University Foundation, the campaign aims to help students struggling with food, housing, … Continue reading →

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 →