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Oct 7
Wright State’s undergrad computer science and engineering programs ranked among top in Ohio by U.S. News
Wright State University’s undergraduate computer science and engineering programs are ranked No. 3 among Ohio’s public universities in U.S. News and World Report’s 2026 Best Colleges rankings. Continue reading →
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Oct 6
From goats to gourds, Wright State finds fun ways to support mental health
Wright State put a creative spin on World Mental Health Day with activities designed to help students, faculty and staff prioritize their mental health. Continue reading →
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Oct 2
Undergraduate enrollment rises nearly 5% at Wright State University
Undergraduate enrollment at Wright State rose to 7,963 students this fall, driving the university’s third consecutive year of overall enrollment growth to a total of 11,924 students. Continue reading →
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Oct 2
Wright State partners with Coursera to expand career readiness opportunities
Through a new partnership with Coursera’s Career Academy, Wright State students can explore career paths, develop high-demand skills and earn micro-credentials and professional certificates that prove job readiness to employers. Continue reading →
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Sep 30
Nearly 1,000 Wright State students and alumni attend fall Career Fair
Hundreds of students and alumni connected with potential employers and explored career and internship opportunities at Wright State University’s Fall 2025 Career and Internship Fair. Continue reading →
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- WYSO: Metal recycling, manufacturing and AI: Wright State receives $3M grant to show they can collide
- Dayton Business Journal: $3M NSF grant funds Wright State’s ‘recyclofacturing’ nationwide research project
- Dayton Daily News: Wright State engineers land $3M federal grant to study scrap metal recycling
- Dayton Business Journal: $2.4M boost puts students on frontlines of mental health shortage at Wright State
- Dayton Daily News: Increasing mental health counseling help in region goal of Wright State initiative
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- Dayton Business Journal: Sinclair College, Wright State launch engineering technology degree transfer pathway
- Wright State nursing professor featured in Dayton Daily News on AI’s impact in health care and education
Wright State in the News
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

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
WDTN reports on Red Cross mural created by Wright State grad

Excerpt The Red Cross Dayton chapter is celebrating its 100th anniversary in a big way. The chapter will uncover a giant mural painted by Katie Puthoff, a recent graduate from Wright State University. Puthoff painted a mural of two iconic … Continue reading