Wright State in the News

Clare Butcher from the information technology program is valedictorian and will attend Wright State’s College of Business… Continue reading →

Excerpt Ohio’s 14 public universities, including Wright State University, are launching a statewide communication campaign designed to raise awareness of the value of public higher education and spur efforts to close the state’s increasingly alarming higher education attainment gap. To … Continue reading →

Wright State University awarded medical degrees to 96 graduates on Thursday night at the Schuster Center in downtown Dayton. View the photo gallery from the Dayton Daily News.

Excerpt An Appalachian State administrator has been selected as the next provost of Wright State University. Susan Edwards, vice provost for faculty affairs at the North Carolina-based university, was named to the position Thursday. In addition to her role as provost, … Continue reading →

Excerpt Future Wright State University students were greeted with smiles, handshakes, back pats and congratulatory fist bumps. There were snacks, music, balloons and souvenir photos. And the students walked away with gold-stickered certificates making them official Raiders. Hundreds of incoming … Continue reading →

Excerpt Activism came early to Eleanor Tripp, a student in Wright State University’s School of Professional Psychology and a co-founder of Dayton Indivisible for All, which fights intolerance, racism and authoritarianism. When she was growing up in the village of … Continue reading →

Excerpt She usually takes her coffee with cream and a little sugar. But a three-day tour of coffee farms in Costa Rica as part of the Wright State Raj Soin College of Business’ partnership with the Boston Stoker company may … Continue reading →

More than 2,000 students graduated during the spring commencement ceremony at the Nutter Center. The class of 2018 includes graduates with 1,429 bachelor’s degrees and 602 master’s degrees as well as those awarded associate degrees and post-master’s certificates. Here’s what … Continue reading →

Excerpt The Wright State Raiders proved something to themselves and the rest of the field at the 2018 National Collegiate Club Bowling Championships. The men’s team posted their best-ever finish at the national event, placing second to William Paterson University … Continue reading →

Excerpt Ohio, a state where 4,329 people died of drug overdoses in 2016, a death rate second only to neighboring West Virginia, is taking the fight against the opioid epidemic into the classroom with a new style of drug-abuse-prevention education. Ohio’s … Continue reading →