Success Stories

Student Profiles

Medical attention

Weilong Wang, an Army Reserve soldier and medical student, and several classmates are often studying in the Veteran and Military Center from sunup to sundown.

Never too late

Danita Sani, formerly Danita Barnes, is among the first wave of students in the Wright State Business Degree Completion Program.

Design destiny

Madison Pape, a senior graphic design major at the Lake Campus, turned her passion for art into a career path.

Data driven

Interning with a defense contractor, graduate industrial and human factors engineering student Kaitlyn Ellison digs up elusive data and makes it understandable.

Physics fervor

The Air Force Research Laboratory recognized Neil Pohl, a physics major at Wright State, for his work by naming him Intern of the Week.

Material witness

Alex Vehre applies knowledge learned in Wright State's mechanical engineering program in his Air Force Research Laboratory internship.

Alumni

Health conscious

Wright State alumnus Csongor Bajnoczki published research on the lack of diversity in governmental COVID-19 task forces.

Museum marvel

Anna Helmig, a two-time Wright State University graduate, oversees the care of 1.8 million artifacts at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery.

Learning curve

The turning point came when Kevin Leichtman was working a minimum-wage job and decided to give school the old college try for the third time.

A space odyssey

Engineer Lindsay Aitchison ’11 is supporting NASA’s next trip to the Moon in 2024 by designing new, state-of-the-art spacesuits.

A different kind of influencer

Two-time Wright State graduate Al-Hamdani wants immigrants to know Dayton as a welcoming city.

Sound effect

Wright State psychology alumnus Brian Simpson was named as a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America.