From rural high schools to college classrooms, students will build AI skills for the workforce and teachers will gain the training to take them there
April 23, 2026
Wright State has received a $2.5 million federal grant to develop AI-focused curriculum and train educators to teach it, with the goal of expanding artificial intelligence literacy from rural schools through colleges and into the workforce.
Research from students in six colleges and dozens of disciplines took center stage at Wright State’s Celebration of Undergraduate and Graduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities.
Maintaining the R2 designation signals Wright State’s continued commitment to advancing discovery while training the next generation of researchers and professionals.
Wright State senior Lily Kaval channels narcolepsy experience into nationally recognized research
March 10, 2026
Wright State senior Lily Kaval has turned her experience living with narcolepsy into impactful research, earning an invitation to present her work at the highly competitive 2026 American Counseling Association conference.
Wright State students gain access to real-world space research and workforce pathways through U.S. Space Command
February 9, 2026
Wright State University joins a select group of institutions nationwide in U.S. Space Command’s Academic Engagement Enterprise, creating new opportunities for student involvement in space research and workforce development.
Damaris Serrano, professor of Spanish, received the prestigious Pedro Correa Vázquez Literary Criticism Essay Award from Panama’s Ministry of Culture for her book “Voices in Global Times.”
Wright State’s Center for Civics, Culture and Workforce Development has received a $3 million U.S. Department of Education grant to strengthen civic literacy and engagement among K–12 educators and students across 16 counties in Southwest Ohio.
December graduates Maram Almodhwahi and Morgan Highlander were recognized for exceptional research with Wright State’s Trustees’ Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Awards.
Six Wright State engineering and computer science students received prestigious Department of Defense SMART (Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation) Scholarships.
