Welcome to the Wright State University Press Release Database! Here are the 10 most recent press releases posted:

Manal Al-hasawi and Krishan Joshi receive new international awards presented by Wright State -- The University Center for International Education (UCIE) at Wright State University recently presented two new awards during the International Friendship Affair on campus. Manal Al-hasawi, a Wright State student, received the Global Citizen Award and Krishan Joshi, founder and chair of UES, Inc., received the International Student/Scholar Advocate Award.(04/27/2007)

Two Wright State students elected officers with National Black Graduate Student Association -- Wright State University students Marc Dewitt and Delores Floyd have been elected to national offices with the National Black Graduate Student Association (NBGSA).(04/26/2007)

Learn more about AIDS during Drop in Day at Wright State -- It has been 25 years since HIV/AIDS was declared a global epidemic. Wright State University will observe AIDS Awareness Week during the week of May 7. The College of Liberal Arts, in cooperation with HIV/AIDS coordinators from Montgomery and Greene Counties, will sponsor an AIDS Awareness Drop in Day open to the public on Wednesday, May 9, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Millett Hall Atrium on campus. (04/26/2007)

Wright State’s National Model United Nations team brings home top honors -- For the 28th straight year, Wright State University’s Model UN team has brought home top awards from the National Model United Nations competition in New York. (04/24/2007)

Film on destruction of wooden synagogues in Eastern Europe, their similarities to Buddhist temples, featured at WSU event -- Retired Time/Life photojournalist Albert Barry presents his award-winning documentary film The Lost Wooden Synagogues of Eastern Europe on Wednesday, May 2, at Wright State University.(04/24/2007)

International student enrollment surge reported at Wright State University -- During a time when rapidly changing world conditions demonstrate the value of international education, Wright State University is substantially surpassing national and state enrollment totals for international students.(04/24/2007)

Pioneer test pilot Robert Gilliland to speak at Wright State -- The Lockheed SR-71, more commonly known as the “Blackbird,” is one of the most spectacular aircraft ever built. It is a long range, supersonic reconnaissance aircraft capable of flying at Mach 3.2—more than three times the speed of sound. Robert Gilliland, the plane’s first test pilot, will share the Blackbird’s colorful history at Wright State University on Monday, May 7, at 7:30 p.m., in the Berry Room of the Nutter Center on campus. This special program of the Huffman Prairie Aviation History Society is sponsored by the Wright State University Libraries, its Special Collections and Archives unit and the Dayton/Cincinnati section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. It is free and open to the public.(04/20/2007)

Wright State students bring home first place in national management case competition -- MBA students from the Wright State University Raj Soin College of Business once again garnered top honors at the 2007 Society for Advancement of Management nationwide case competition. This is the fourth time students achieved first place honors and the fifth consecutive year that Wright State has placed in the top three in the nation. (04/19/2007)

News analyst and author Cokie Roberts serves up political savvy at Wright State dinner -- News analyst and bestselling author, Cokie Roberts, will be the featured speaker Tuesday, April 24, 2007, when Wright State University’s Boonshoft School of Medicine holds its 30th annual Academy of Medicine lecture and dinner at the Benjamin and Marion Schuster Performing Arts Center.(04/19/2007)

Performance poetry by Patricia Smith featured in AIDS benefit at Wright State -- Poet Patricia Smith, a four-time individual champion in the National Poetry Slam, will be featured in a benefit at Wright State University on Tuesday, April 24, to raise money for the AIDS Resource Center of Ohio.(04/19/2007)

Wright State Institute for Business Integrity program to examine organizational ethics and compliance -- The challenges companies face in meeting corporate reporting and record-keeping requirements will be addressed when the Institute for Business Integrity (IBI) in the Raj Soin College of Business at Wright State University, along with the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce and the Better Business Bureau of Dayton and the Miami Valley, holds its Fifth Annual Business Integrity Breakfast on Tuesday, May 8. The event begins at 7:30 a.m. in the Berry Room of the Ervin J. Nutter Center on campus. Tim Mazur, COO of the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association (ECOA), will present “The Latest Best Practices in Organizational Ethics and Compliance.” (04/18/2007)

Voice of Bart Simpson speaks at Wright State -- Nancy Cartwright, a Kettering native and the voice for popular Fox television sitcom character Bart Simpson, will speak at Wright State on Sunday, April 29. Her 7 p.m. address in the Student Union Apollo Room will be free for Wright State students, faculty, staff and the military, with a $5 per person fee for the general public. The University Activities Board (UAB) is sponsoring the event, with tickets available at the Student Union Box Office.(04/18/2007)

Nuclear weapons expert David Albright to speak at Wright State University -- The complex issues the world faces in dealing with Iran will be discussed when David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) in Washington, D.C., and a Wright State University graduate, presents “Will Iran go Nuclear? Difficult Choices Ahead” on Thursday, April 19, at 7 p.m. in the Student Union Apollo Room on the Wright State campus. Sponsored by the College of Science and Mathematics, School of Graduate Studies and the Dayton Council on World Affairs, the event is free and open to the public. (04/17/2007)

Wright State to offer workshop on advanced patent research -- Persons already familiar with the patent process and who have researched patents by U.S. classification can learn about prior art searches when the Wright State University Libraries holds the workshop, “What Would a Professional Patent Searcher Do?” The workshop is Saturday, April 21, from 1 to 4 p.m. in Room 241 of the Paul Laurence Dunbar Library on the Wright State campus. (04/17/2007)

Prominent author to speak at Wright State on Iraq, global warming, Bush presidency -- Journalist and author Mark Hertsgaard will discuss “Living Through the Storm: Iraq, Global Warming and the Bush Presidency” at Wright State University on Thursday, April 19.(04/17/2007)

Students travel 500 miles from Washington, D.C. for trebuchet competition at Wright State -- Students at the private Maret School in Washington, D.C., are challenged regularly to think creatively and work as a team. Their desire to pursue this goal will soon take them on a journey of nearly 500 miles when they travel to Dayton for the Seventh Annual Trebuchet competition at Wright State University on April 17.(04/11/2007)

WSU STEM Institute allows high schoolers to explore sciences and engineering -- High school juniors and seniors interested in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) can spend three weeks this summer exploring physical and natural sciences and engineering during the STEM Institute offered by the Wright State University Office of Pre-College Programs, College of Science and Mathematics and College of Engineering and Computer Science. Open to eligible Ohio high school juniors and seniors, the rigorous and intensive STEM Institute will include units in trigonometry, metrics, electricity and renewable energy, engineering principles and more. (04/6/2007)

Leading Hispanic Educator Ana Guzmán keynotes “Quest for Community” event at Wright State -- Ana Guzmán, Ed.D., one of the nation’s foremost Hispanic educators and the president of Palo Alto College in San Antonio, Texas, will deliver the keynote address at the seventh annual “Quest for Community: A Call to Action” conference at Wright State University on Friday, April 13, at 9 a.m. in the Student Union Apollo Room.(04/06/2007)

Prestigious Goldwater Scholarship awarded to Wright State biology major in nationwide competition -- Roger Fecher, a junior majoring in biology at Wright State University, has been selected for a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship.(04/3/2007)