{"id":14667,"date":"2012-07-23T15:17:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T19:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=14667"},"modified":"2012-07-23T15:17:39","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T19:17:39","slug":"ohio-state-university-president-gordon-gee-faculty-bring-traveling-tour-to-wright-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/07\/23\/ohio-state-university-president-gordon-gee-faculty-bring-traveling-tour-to-wright-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio State University President Gordon Gee, faculty bring traveling tour to Wright State"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wright State President David R. Hopkins welcomes Ohio State President Gordon Gee (left) to campus outside the Student Union.<\/p><\/div>\n

Ohio State University President Gordon Gee and a host of faculty and administrators from the university visited Wright State to network and explore new partnerships.<\/p>\n

The July 23 stop was part of Ohio State\u2019s annual Roads Scholars Tour, a two-day traveling seminar designed to explore different corners of the state and make new connections.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019ve learned over the last five years is the importance of us working together, collaborating,\u201d said Wright State President David R. Hopkins. \u201cBy being able to show how we can step up and be a good partner with them and vice versa, we can make more things happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gee said the visit was an opportunity for him to learn more about Ohio State\u2019s partnerships with Wright State. He said Ohio has a wealth of strong universities that should work together in order to flourish in tough economic times.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we don\u2019t hang together, we\u2019ll hang separately,\u201d Gee said.<\/p>\n

The Ohio State group was treated to lunch at the Student Union.<\/p>\n

Hopkins told the group that Wright State got its start in the early 1960s as a branch campus of Ohio State and Miami universities.<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess you could say The Ohio State University is our daddy,\u201d Hopkins said. \u201cYou gave birth to us. I think that\u2019s important because we want you to be proud of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

He noted that Wright State is now nationally recognized for the performing arts, its community service and its service to students with disabilities. The university also works closely with the Air Force Research Laboratory to help commercialize research.<\/p>\n

Members of the Ohio State group were scheduled to take a tour of Wright State\u2019s Appenzeller Visualization Laboratory, a dazzling virtual-reality center that takes visitors on journeys underneath the Earth\u2019s surface, past factory assembly lines and even through the human bloodstream.<\/p>\n

The Ohio State contingent also planned stops at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Wilmington and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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