Feb 17, 2015
Wright State’s Shannon family travel to Netherlands to witness an annual Dutch Christmas Eve tribute to World War II liberators.
Feb 17, 2015
Excerpt Wright State University’s Department of English Language and Literatures is relaunching a literary magazine, Mad River Review, says Dennis Loranger, lecturer in English and music. Dennis will also serve as the relaunched magazine’s editor. “Literary magazines tend to rise …
Feb 16, 2015
All members of the Wright State community are invited to attend the Pop-Up Colloquium on Digital Pedagogies taking place Friday, February the 20th, from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm, in 401 Millett Hall. This exciting colloquium will feature examples of assignments designed to take advantage of innovative software to enhance student learning, creativity, undergraduate research, and professional engagement. English faculty members Crystal B. Lake and Lars Söderlund, along with Reference-Web Librarian...
Feb 16, 2015
On February 20th, the French Club organized a cooking class at the Rockafield Alumni Kitchen with "Macaroon Chef" and French student, Xavier Mellor. Students and professors learned how to make delicious chocolate and hazelnut filled macaroons. Everybody also had a chance to taste different flavors like strawberry and white chocolate, orange and dark chocolate and mint macaroons!
Everyone had a great time devouring this popular French desert while having great discussions.
Feb 13, 2015
A trip to her native Tanzania to shadow doctors and nurses produced lifelong memories for Wright State University pre-med student Aliane Kubwimana.
Feb 12, 2015
“Phoenix Project: A Call to Action” from Feb. 17-19, and a Civil Rights Pilgrimage, March 3-9, commemorate the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
Feb 11, 2015
On January 28th, Arabic professor Amira Orr took her Arabic 1020 class to the Rockafield Alumni Center kitchen to teach her students about Middle Eastern food. They made Kofta (Middle Eastern meat balls), Hummus (chick peas dip), Lebna (cheese), salad, Taheena (sesame seed paste), Pita Bread and Green Mint Tea.
The food was delicious and everybody had a great time!
Feb 11, 2015
Philosophy professor Erik Banks published book on Austrian physicist Ernst Mach, American psychologist William James and British philosopher Bertrand Russell.
Feb 10, 2015
The Arabic program will celebrate its first Immersion Day on Tuesday, March 24th from 8:30 am-1:30 pm. This year, the theme is “Visiting the Classical Arabic Past”. Activities will be centered around the “1001 Nights” and include plays presented by the students, explorations of Levantive Arabic culture, a calligraphy session, and hand painting with henna. Joshua Mabra, Assistant Professor of Arabic, will present a lecture on Islamic history. Join us for this culturally rich event in the Apollo...
Feb 9, 2015
According to "The Economist" newspaper,"German-Americans are America’s largest single ethnic group (if you divide Hispanics into Mexican-Americans, Cuban-Americans, etc). In 2013, according to the Census bureau, 46m Americans claimed German ancestry: more than the number who traced their roots to Ireland (33m) or England (25m)."
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