{"id":76533,"date":"2019-10-25T12:47:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T16:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=76533"},"modified":"2019-10-25T12:47:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T16:47:17","slug":"sidney-daily-news-wright-state-awarded-more-than-1-million-in-choose-ohio-first-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/10\/25\/sidney-daily-news-wright-state-awarded-more-than-1-million-in-choose-ohio-first-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidney Daily News: Wright State awarded more than $1 million in Choose Ohio First scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Excerpt<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-44057\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2017\/02\/choose-ohio-first-260x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"204\" \/>Wright State University has been awarded more than $1 million in Choose Ohio First scholarships from the State of Ohio for the 2020\u201321 academic year.<\/p>\n<p>The scholarships are designed to strengthen Ohio\u2019s competitiveness within science, technology, engineering and math disciplines by supporting students in innovative academic programs.<\/p>\n<p>They are aimed at increasing the number of STEM graduates and educators in Ohio and funding collaborations that will have the most impact on Ohio\u2019s position in world markets such as aerospace, medicine, computer technology and alternative energy.<\/p>\n<p>The total award in scholarship money to Wright State is $1,066,034. It was disclosed in an Oct. 17 letter to Wright State President Cheryl B. Schrader from Randy Gardner, chancellor of the Ohio Department of Higher Education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thank you for your commitment in strengthening Ohio\u2019s economic future by providing rigorous and relevant academic programs in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medical education that will help nurture the talent needed to make Ohio\u2019s businesses competitive in the 21st century knowledge economy,\u201d Gardner wrote.<\/p>\n<p>View the original story at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sidneydailynews.com\/news\/159411\/wright-state-awarded-more-than-1-million-in-choose-ohio-first-scholarships\">sidneydailynews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt Wright State University has been awarded more than $1 million in Choose Ohio First scholarships from the State of Ohio for the 2020\u201321 academic year. The scholarships are designed to strengthen Ohio\u2019s competitiveness within science, technology, engineering and math &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2019\/10\/25\/sidney-daily-news-wright-state-awarded-more-than-1-million-in-choose-ohio-first-scholarships\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":44057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76533","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=76533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76537,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76533\/revisions\/76537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}