Health

Breast Cancer

Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine professor Julian Gomez-Cambronero, Ph.D., and his research team have discovered a key protein that plays a critical role in the development of breast cancer tumors and the spread of the disease to the nearby lungs. Read more 

Neuroscience Building

Wright State University broke ground on a new state-of-the-art laboratory building expected to become a beacon for translational neuroscience and engineering research. The April 25 groundbreaking launched construction of the $37 million, four-story Neuroscience Engineering Collaboration Building. It is expected to be finished by February 2015. Read more 

Limb Research

Wright State University has won a $4.6 million National Institutes of Health grant aimed at improving the movement of badly injured limbs—funding that will accelerate the growth and productivity of the rapidly developing neuroscience research on campus and support the research and graduate training programs that will be housed in the new $37 million Neuroscience and Engineering Collaboration Building. Read more

Calamityville

The National Center for Medical Readiness (NCMR) at Calamityville this week launched the first in a family of courses designed to prepare medical responders for their “worst day” scenario and opened its first Technical Training Zone focused on complex vehicles, signaling the austere training and research site located at a former cement plant is reaching full operation. Read more

Campus

45th Anniversary

Three university presidents appeared on the same stage during a celebration of Wright State’s 45th anniversary to salute the birth of the university and forecast the future of higher education. Read more

Energy Consumption

Wright State plans to slash campus energy consumption by nearly 40 percent through energy efficiency investments that include applying state-of-the-art technology to modernize heating/cooling plants in buildings across its Dayton and Lake campuses. The move promises to save the university $35.8 million over the next 15 years. Learn more

Community Service

For the fourth year in a row, Wright State has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction for the university’s support of volunteering, student community service, service learning and civic engagement. Learn more

Student Worker of Year

A Marine Corps veteran and engineering student lauded for his work ethic as a laboratory and teaching assistant has won both the Wright State and Ohio Student Employee of the Year Awards. Read more

ArtsGala

Wright State University’s annual ArtsGala offered patrons a night of unparalleled entertainment. Arts student displayed their rich talents throughout the Creative Arts Center and guests were treated to a dizzying array of food and fun. Attendance was higher than ever before with over 630 patrons on hand to support student scholarships in theatre, dance, art, music and motion pictures. Read more

Academics
 

Master of Social Work

Leo Fugate has a soft spot in his heart for children of single parents. So the former U.S. Army Airborne Ranger has a plan to help them. The plan involves taking advantage of a brand new master’s degree program in social work being offered jointly by Wright State University and Miami University. Read more

Kroger

It’s the Super Bowl of operations research—the competition for the Franz Edelman Award for achievement in operations research, announced at an awards gala during the INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research. Read more

Cybersecurity

Wright State University is responding to the growing threats to computers and data networks with a new Master of Science degree in cyber security. Read more

Elliott Brown

They can’t be seen by the naked eye, but are used to inspect the space shuttle for cracks, image military planes for corrosion and detect historic murals that have been plastered over. And they hold promise for uncovering victims from rubble, spotting nervous terrorists and even detecting skin cancer. Read more