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Sep 22, 2014
Matt Chinn’s internship experience began well before his time at Wright State ever did.  As a local graduate of Kettering Fairmont High School, he wasted no time looking for summer work and was fortunate enough to find a position at The Reynolds and Reynolds Company scanning files so what were formerly paper files could now be easily accessible in a digital format.  Adjusting to the corporate environment was a bit of a shock, but his managers and co-workers were understanding and made the...
Sep 19, 2014
Renowned photographer Elena Dorfman will be speaking at Wright State on Thursday, October 9 from 5:00-6:00 p.m. in the Creative Arts Center, room M252. She will be delivering a lecture on her work, which is included in the current Robert & Elaine Stein Galleries exhibition EXPOSURE: An Exhibition of Contemporary Photography. There will be a reception in the Galleries following the lecture until 7:00 p.m. Elena Dorfman achieved much of her fame through exploring the social, cultural, and...
Sep 18, 2014
Carol Loranger, chair of the Department of English Languages and Literatures, creates online bibliography on the winners of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
Sep 17, 2014
Wright State Theatre presents August Wilson’s landmark drama “Fences” in the Festival Playhouse Sept. 18–28.
Sep 17, 2014
Each fall, Myron Levine, Professor of Urban Affairs and Geography, takes his URS 3210 (Metropolitan Politics) students to Cincinnati to meet with redevelopment officials and explore the transformation of the city’s Over-the-Rhine district. The site of substantial poverty and widespread property abandonment, “OTR” gained national notoriety in 2001 as the site of the nation’s last big-city riots. OTR is presently in the midst of a reinvention and is now the center of loft living, upscale...
Sep 17, 2014
Kyle Pitzer, who received his M.A. in History in May 2014, completed a story on the Occupy Dayton movement shortly before his death this summer in a car accident.  The story aired on September 17, 2014, and can be heard here: http://wyso.org/post/revisiting-occupy-dayton.  The story shows Kyle's gifts as an historian: an attention to detail, a concern for real people, and the ability to tell a story.  We miss him.
Sep 15, 2014
This week, Wright State University is welcoming a group of delegates from Serbia who are visiting Dayton to learn more about best practices to mediate and mitigate domestic violence.
Sep 15, 2014
We’ve all seen and read the stories. Flu season is just around the corner; the mumps has returned to Ohio, a respiratory virus is hitting the Midwest hard, national coverage on Ebola has been non-stop.
Sep 15, 2014
More than 100 businesses will be on hand for the Wright State Career Fair, which is open to students and alumni on Sept. 16.
Sep 12, 2014
Wright State senior music major Elizabeth Procopio, who has been playing the drums since childhood, plans to pursue a career in a symphony orchestra as a percussionist.

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