Sep 26, 2014
ROTC cadet Alana Brookshire is studying social work at Wright State in order to fulfill her dream of serving as a social worker in the U.S. Army.
Sep 25, 2014
Excerpt August Wilson’s tremendously visceral 1987 Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “Fences,” among the finest inclusions in his remarkable 10-play “Pittsburgh Cycle” chronicling the African-American experience in the 20th century, opens Wright State University’s 40th anniversary season with emotionally riveting …
Sep 25, 2014
Wright State history and music programs are collaborating on a concert of popular songs from the Great War, the first program in CELIA’s yearlong commemoration of the start of World War I.
Sep 22, 2014
Congratulations are in order for CoLA's School of Music! Formerly the Department of Music, this name change to the School of Music is significant and reflects the stature, accomplishments, and growth of the program. CoLA's Music faculty, staff, and students are fantastic; they have performed at Carnegie Hall for the past two years as well as venues all around the world. The Benjamin and Marian Schuster Hall is a top-notch acoustically superior venue for musical performances on campus. In the...
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.