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.
Sep 12, 2014
Drs. Norman and Cecile Cary were Founding Members of the English Department of Wright State University, teaching there from 1967 to 1999.
Sep 11, 2014
Since joining Wright State’s Department of Art and Art History, associate professor Tracy Longley-Cook has been a driving force behind the growth of the photography program.