Wright State Headlines
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Sep 15
Wright State University honors staff and faculty for excellence
Wright State will recognize select staff and faculty members for their vital contributions to the university with the 2025 President’s Awards for Excellence during a ceremony on Sept. 17. Continue reading
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Sep 12
Wright State MBA named one of nation’s best on-campus programs by Princeton Review
The Princeton Review has named Wright State University’s Raj Soin College of Business one of the nation’s Best On-Campus MBA Programs for 2025, recognizing its affordability, flexibility and strong academic reputation. Continue reading
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Sep 11
Wright State graduate students to support underserved Ohio communities through new mental health program
Wright State has launched a new federally funded initiative to expand the region’s behavioral health workforce, giving social work and counseling students the tools to meet the rising demand for mental health services in underserved communities. Continue reading
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Sep 8
Wright State’s Lake Campus hosts lawn party for students and community-involvement
The seventh annual Laker Lawn Party highlighted the beginning of Fall Semester at Wright State University’s Lake Campus. Continue reading
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Sep 5
Pioneering Wright State nursing graduate promotes cancer screenings among students
Mariah Jansing is the first student to complete Wright State’s newly accredited Doctor of Nursing Practice program in the School of Nursing. Continue reading
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Wright State in the News
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
Dayton Daily News profiles debut poetry collection by Wright State grad
Excerpt “Poetry is a mystical thing to me,” explains Rita Coleman, a local poet who lives in rural Greene County. Rita’s debut collection of poetry, “And Yet,” will be published in August by Finishing Line Press. “The title of the … Continue reading
Dayton Business Journal reports more state funds could be coming to Wright State for Human Performance research
Excerpt Several years after its launch, an initiative by Wright State University with funds from the Ohio Third Frontier has meant more chances to win contracts, officials say. The Ohio Controlling Board will vote Monday on whether to disperse … Continue reading
Fairborn Daily Herald reports on Wright State community service project in Nicaragua
Excerpt Families in Nicaragua sometimes have to walk for hours for clean drinking water. Twenty-four Wright State University students decided to help, spending a week working alongside the community to not only change the lives of the families they helped, … Continue reading
Tom Archdeacon profiles medical school grad, basketball star Alison Bales
Excerpt In mid-March of 2007, the 6-foot-7 Bales — a graduate of Beavercreek High and Duke University — walked onto the stage at the Renaissance Hotel in Cleveland’s Public Square for the first round of the WNBA Draft and was … Continue reading
Scientific American interviews Wright State autism expert
Excerpt Society teaches people with autism from a young age that they are incapable of love, says Jessica Penwell Barnett, assistant professor of sexuality studies in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. Barnett … Continue reading
