Wright State in the News

Englewood Independent details alum’s gift for music practice room

Excerpt FAIRBORN — For eight years of their lives — between the ages of 7 and 15 — Steve and Mike King practiced the piano virtually every day on a baby grand in the living room of their Trotwood home. … Continue reading →

Loaded with Wright State STEM students, DDN touts SUCCESS program at AFIT, AFRL

Excerpt The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Students from Community College Gaining Skills and Experience in STEM, or the SUCCESS Program as it is known, is designed as a vehicle to introduce community college students to AFRL and the larger Air … Continue reading →

Dayton City Paper profiles Wright State public history grad student

Excerpt Their story is powerful. Nearly 400 freed slaves—including an infant less than 1-year-old and a woman over 100—make a 500-mile pilgrimage on foot and by horse from a Virginia plantation to promised land in Ohio in 1846, only to … Continue reading →

Dayton Daily News report: Wright State students on Capitol Hill

Excerpt Two Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine students are pushing for improvements to health care in the nation’s capitol. The students spoke with Ohio legislators on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., in May as part of the American … Continue reading →

Wright State research on EAB, olive trees featured in Olive Oil Times

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

Excerpt A team of researchers from Ohio’s Wright State University has discovered that the invasive Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) is capable of completing development on olive trees, making it the second official non-ash species of plant that can host the … Continue reading →

Former Wright State basketball star’s NBA coaching career profiled in Boston Globe

Excerpt Vitaly Potapenko giggles when he hears “The Ukraine Train.” He’s carried that nickname since his days at Wright State University, when he was a fierce, burly center who ran through the Midwestern Collegiate Conference on his way to being … Continue reading →

Fairborn Daily Herald profiles Air Force medic preparing for nursing career at Wright State

Excerpt Today, Barberi is a senior in Wright State University’s Veteran Bachelor of Science Nursing program option, a pre-licensure B.S.N. program option for veteran and active duty personnel from the Air Force, Army and Navy who have completed training as … Continue reading →

Wright State business researchers contribute to study featured in Forbes

Excerpt A corporate board packed with independent directors has ethical appeal, and has become a common sight at big companies. But new research indicates that boards with only one insider (the CEO) are worse off. “Lone-insider boards go a step … Continue reading →

Dayton Magazine has ‘five questions for Wright State University’s new president’

The June/July issue of the Dayton Magazine features a Q&A with Cheryl B. Schrader, who will join Wright State as president on July 1. Questions posed in the interview include: What made Wright State attractive to you and what will … Continue reading →

Improving soldier health and performance with sensors and stimulators at Wright State center

Excerpt The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Wright Patterson AFB is the Air Force lead in human performance research and development for its air, space and cyberspace forces. Supporting that mission is the Ohio Federal Research Network’s (OFRN) Human … Continue reading →