{"id":5913,"date":"2011-06-23T07:00:50","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=5913"},"modified":"2011-06-23T08:37:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T12:37:57","slug":"beavercreek-student-wins-full-ride-to-wright-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/06\/23\/beavercreek-student-wins-full-ride-to-wright-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Beavercreek student wins full ride to Wright State"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5911\" style=\"width: 252px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5911\" href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/06\/23\/beavercreek-student-wins-full-ride-to-wright-state\/cw-wsu-scholarship-winner\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5911\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5911\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2011\/06\/CW-WSU-Scholarship-winner-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Richard Day and Jacci McMillan, Vice President for Enrollment Management at Wright State University.\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacqueline McMillan, Ph.D., vice president for enrollment management at Wright State University, congratulates Richard Day soon after he was named the winner of Dayton&#039;s CW scholarship.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 200 words or less, a local student made it clear a scholarship to Wright State University would positively impact his career; in the end those 200 words earned him four years of free tuition.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Day of Beavercreek, Ohio, was awarded a four-year scholarship to Wright State University, Thursday, June 16. Day was the sixth winner in the annual \u201cDayton\u2019s CW Scholarship\u201d contest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Wright State University is pleased to partner with the Dayton CW to award a\u00a0four-year tuition scholarship to Richard Day,&#8221; said Jacqueline McMillan, Ph.D., vice president for enrollment management.\u00a0&#8220;Richard is committed to changing not only his life but also the lives of those who struggle with physical challenges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are delighted to welcome him to the Raider family,&#8221; said McMillan.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5958\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5958\" href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/06\/23\/beavercreek-student-wins-full-ride-to-wright-state\/wsu-cw-scholarship1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5958\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5958\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2011\/06\/WSU-CW-scholarship1-260x195.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Richard Day, center holding check, receiving scholarship check with family surrounding him.\" width=\"260\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5958\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Day, center holding check, will get four years of tuition free at Wright State University after winning the Dayton CW Scholarship.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An aspiring biomedical engineering major, Day entered the essay contest addressing the theme, \u201cHow will your degree affect the legacy you leave at the end of your career?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are excited for Richard and his legacy he will leave. He is an inspiring young man with big dreams ahead,\u201d said Lisa Barhorst, vice president and general manager of WDTN-TV and Dayton&#8217;s CW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 200 words or less a local high school student made it clear a scholarship to Wright State University would positively impact his career&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2011\/06\/23\/beavercreek-student-wins-full-ride-to-wright-state\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":5912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[733,725,727,715,719],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-news","category-special-categories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5913"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6052,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5913\/revisions\/6052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}