Nov 5, 2013
Drew Swanson, an assistant professor of history, is the author of Remaking Wormsloe Plantation: The Environmental History of a Lowcountry Landscape (University of Georgia Press). This book has recently been awarded the Malcolm Bell, Jr., and Muriel Barrow Bell Award by the Georgia Historical Society and has been recognized for "Excellence Using the Holdings of an Archives" by the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board.
Nov 4, 2013
Personal reflections by a survivor of Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass,” will highlight Wright State University’s commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the 1938 attacks in Nazi Germany against Jews.
Oct 31, 2013
Karen Lahm is using a grant College of Liberal Arts grant to examine inmate-on-inmate assaults and inmate-on-staff assaults at the Ohio Reformatory for Women from 2007-2012. The data comes from official institutional conduct reports as reported by prison staff and officials. There are a little over 500 of these reports to analyze: 300 inmate-on-inmate and a little over 200 inmate-on-staff. These assaults can be physical, sexual, or an issue of harassment. The data collected from these...
Oct 31, 2013
Hello. My name is Jacqueline Bergdahl and I’m the new Director of the Applied Behavioral Science program. Dr. Karen Lahm was the most immediate prior director and before her, it was Dr. David Orenstein – both Drs. Lahm and Orenstein still teach in the ABS program.
I enjoy my position as director of this program because it allows me to interact with a lot of interesting potential, current and past ABS students. Students come from a variety of backgrounds with a variety of research interests...
Oct 30, 2013
Andrew Krivak, author of the critically acclaimed novel The Sojourn and winner of the 2012 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction, will be at Wright State University Friday, Nov. 1...
Oct 29, 2013
Dr. Noeleen McIlvenna recently printed her book that is going off to the publisher.
Entitled "The Short Life of Free Georgia," Dr. McIlvenna's work describes the first European settlement of the Georgia colony, 1733-1750. Slavery was banned, because the London philanthropists who established the colony wanted to provide an opportunity for poor white folk to work hard. But in nearby South Carolina, the major planters were furious they could not expand their rice empire further and so...
Oct 29, 2013
The Wright State departments of economics, English, religion, women’s studies and the Women’s Center are sponsoring a workshop that...
Oct 28, 2013
It all began with 12 Angry Men, a 1957 film that depicts a jury deliberating the guilt or innocence of a man on the basis of reasonable doubt...
Oct 25, 2013
From October 27 - December 8, 2013 the Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries will present selected works by artists from across the United States. The works use camera-less photographic processes. Among the processes used are photograms, scanograms, lumen prints, chemigrams, and photogenic drawings: all of which describe methods where light is used to capture an image directly onto a surface.
Technological advances continue to expand the ways in which light can be used to record an image. Camera-...
Oct 24, 2013
Wright State University Theatre continues its 39th season in the festival playhouse with the award-winning musical Oklahoma! Oct. 24—Nov. 10...