May 11, 2015
A new book by Wright State communication professor Scott Peterson examines a pivotal year in baseball's history and the development of sports journalism.
May 8, 2015
German Major, Alexander Schiefer, was invited to the CoLA Internship Breakfast with Dean Kristin Sobolik on Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Alexander spent Tuesdays and Thursdays during his spring semester in Indianapolis interning for Joyful Noise Recordings. Joyful Noise Recordings is an independent record label featuring artists such as Kishi Bashi, Surfer Blood, and Stranger Cat. Joyful Noise has many customers in Germany and they have a distributor based in Berlin, so Alexander was able to use...
May 7, 2015
Dr. Heidi Wendt, assistant professor in the Department of Religion, is the 2015 recipient of the Honors Teacher of the Year award. Completing her second year at WSU, Dr. Wendt’s area of expertise is the New Testament and Early Christianity, particularly its relation to the wider Greco-Roman world. She regularly teaches a section of “The Bible & Western Culture,” a popular General Education class. She offered an Honors section of this class for the first time this past spring, and the...
May 7, 2015
The LEAP Intensive English program, which provides international students with the language skills to be successful, has received the highest level of accreditation from the nation’s accrediting agency.
May 6, 2015
Wright State 1998 graduate Joel Huxley uses his B.F.A. in painting to help him see the big picture as executive at the Wright-Patt Credit Union.
May 5, 2015
Excerpt “They had this passion, this mission; they were obsessed to succeed,” said historian David McCullough. But though their plane is proudly displayed at the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum in Washington, historian David McCullough still believes the Wright Brothers …
May 5, 2015
Excerpt Many young people have an undying interest in zombies, so a southwest Ohio college professor focuses a class on them. Andrea Harris of Wright State University teaches “Zombies & Gender in Pop Culture.” Her spring class filled up rapidly, …
May 4, 2015
The Arabic Day took place on Friday, April 24, 2015 from 1:00pm-2:30 pm at the Rockafield Alumni Center. Students from the Modern Languages Arabic classes and other Arabic students on campus came to celebrate the language and the culture of the Middle East.
Students participated in a flag parade of 11 Arabic countries, naming each represented country and guessing its neighboring countries. Students also did a play based on the Folklore of "Juha" and answered questions related to the play...
May 4, 2015
Wright State University honored more than 2,100 graduating students at its 81st commencement ceremony May 2.
May 4, 2015
Stephanie Patino-Garfias, a political science and communication major at Wright State, advocates for the Latino community and for immigration reform.