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July, August and September 1999

Wright State Awarded NSF Grant for New Engineering Technology.Wright State University is home to new state-of-the-art technology for conducting materials engineering research, thanks to a $300,000 National Science Foundation grant. Wright State has acquired an AXIS Ultra, the latest in X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) instruments used for examining composite materials. (9/30/99)

Wright State Offers Seminars for Small Business. Wright State University's Small Business Development Center (SBDC) is again offering information sessions for those looking to start a new business or grow an existing business. (9/30/99)

WSU Pre-College Program Seeks Instructors. The Office of Pre-College Programs at Wright State University is seeking instructors for its Saturday Enrichment Program. Courses will range from "Creative Dramatics" and "Exploring Math" to "Keyboarding" and "Creative Dance," for students in K-12. (9/30/99)

Susan Praeger Receives WSU Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence in Service. Susan Praeger, Ed.D., professor of nursing at Wright State University, has received Wright State University's Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence in Service. (9/30/99)

Martin Maner Receives WSU Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence in Research. Martin Maner, Ph.D., professor of English at Wright State University, is this year's Presidential Award recipient for Faculty Excellence in Research. (9/30/99)

Margaret Clark Graham Receives WSU Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence in Teaching. Margaret Clark Graham, Ph.D., RNCS, associate professor and director of the Family Nurse Practitioner Program at Wright State University, is this year's recipient of the WSU Presidential Award for Faculty Excellence in Teaching. (9/30/99)

WSU President Names Jerald Kay Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year. Jerald Kay, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry in the Wright State University School of Medicine, has received the WSU Presidential Award for Excellence as Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year. The award recognizes excellence in teaching, research and service. (9/30/99)

John Bullock Receives Brage Golding Distinguished Professor of Research Award at Wright State. John D. Bullock, M.D., M.S., F.A.C.S., chair of the Department of Ophthalmology and professor of physiology and biophysics at Wright State University's School of Medicine, is this year's recipient of Wright State University's Brage Golding Distinguished Professor of Research Award. (9/30/99)

Wright State Graduates Win Fellowships from U.S. EPA. Two recent Wright State University graduates are already "stars" in the academic world. Due to the research they conducted while graduate students at WSU, Audrey C. Hatch and David C. Sternberg have won three-year fellowships from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to continue their studies at the doctoral level.(9/23/99)

Wright State Program Offers Students Study, Work Opportunities in Chile. Students from Wright State University and three other colleges and universities will increase their understanding of international business, heighten their global awareness, obtain valuable work experience, and improve their Spanish language skills through Project CHILE. Begun at Wright State in 1995, Project CHILE provides students with language study in Santiago, Chile, for one semester, followed by an internship in Concepion. This year's group of four students left for Chile last week and will return in June 2000. (9/1/99)

Wright State to Offer Management Training Certificate Programs. In the current tight labor market, Miami Valley manufacturers say they need trained supervisors with up-to-date management and leadership skills. With the cooperation of an advisory board of representatives from several area companies, Wright State University's Center for Professional Development has developed two certificate programs beginning in September for those in management, supervisory and leadership roles. (7/28/99)

Wright State Receives $1 Million Gift From The Mead Corporation. Gifts totaling $1 million from The Mead Corporation Foundation will help Wright State University endow a chair in environmental sciences in the College of Science and Mathematics, and expand its MBA program in the College of Business and Administration. (8/10/99)

Racism's Roots in Puritan Christian Beliefs According to New Book by Wright State Professor. Like many African Americans, Dr. Paul Griffin has faced racism all his life. Born during the heights of WWII in a small Ohio town across the Ohio River from Wheeling, W.Va., Griffin overheard the occasional racist remarks as a child. But it wasn't until he moved north to Dayton, Ohio, at the age of 10 that the full force of racism struck him like a blow to the midsection. (8/10/99)

WSU School of Medicine Receives Gift for New Division of Health Systems Management. A major gift to the Wright State University School of Medicine will endow a chair in Health Systems Management, a new division to be created within the Department of Community Health. The chair will bear the name of Oscar Boonshoft, a retired project engineer from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.(7/26/99)

Wright State Nursing Professor Named District 10 Nurse of the Year by Ohio Nurses Association. Margaret Clark Graham, Ph.D., RN, has been named "Nurse of the Year" by District 10 of the Ohio Nurses Association (ONA). (7/20/99)