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

Raiders invite fans to the free Raiders Represent Game -- The Raider's men's basketball home opener against Central Michigan Tuesday, November 24 will once again be a Raiders Represent game - admission will be free to everyone who wears Wright State apparel to the game. Tickets will be available game day only. For more information call 775.2771 or visit wsuraiders.com.(11/19/2009)

Wright State commencement set for Saturday, Nov. 21 -- Well-known Dayton community member and Holocaust educator, Renate Frydman, and some 1,600 Wright State students will be awarded degrees at the 43rd semiannual commencement on Saturday at 10 a.m. in Wright State’s Ervin J. Nutter Center.(11/18/2009)

Board of Trustees to meet November 19–20 -- The Wright State University Board of Trustees will convene for an executive session at 4 p.m. on Thursday, November 19, in the Student Union Wright Brothers Room, on Wright State University's Dayton campus. The trustees will reconvene for a regular session at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, November 20, in E156 Student Union.(11/18/2009)

Chancellor announces Ohio’s Center of Excellence in Human-Centered Innovation at Wright State -- Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Eric D. Fingerhut on Monday announced an Ohio Center of Excellence in Human-Centered Innovation at Wright State University. On behalf of Governor Ted Strickland, Fingerhut lauded the work in human-centered innovation being done by Wright State, citing the importance it plays in bringing jobs to Ohio and making the state globally competitive.(11/16/2009)

Wright State’s Day of Innovation includes community brainstorming session -- Wright State University will initiate a community-wide discussion about technology and the role it plays in the region’s future when it holds its Day of Innovation on Monday, November 16. How we shape technology and how technology impacts us will be the theme of the brainstorming session that community members are invited to participate in virtually from their desktop, or in person, at innovative kiosks being set up in the Student Union Atrium. To join in the community-wide discussion, please log in to www.wright.edu/innovation beginning at 11 a.m., Monday, November 16. (11/15/2009)

Wright State supports new community choral group -- Do you enjoy singing? Want to get involved in a community choral group? If you answer yes to these questions, Wright State University has a deal for you.(11/9/2009)

Innovative Wright State class uses art and music to help teach science and mathematics -- The art students take a simple math concept, contour mapping, and use it to create a mask using the contours of a face. The music students apply this same contour mapping concept to illustrate how music rises and falls as the sound of the instruments fade in and out during a song. “It’s a visual replication of what they hear, which gets the students to listen more deeply to a piece,” said Bill Jobert, a Wright State bassoon instructor and assistant director of bands. (11/6/2009)

Art exhibit features works by Cliff Clay, Choctaw Indian and African American artist -- An art exhibit of acrylics and watercolors by Cliff Clay, a Choctaw Indian and African American artist, is on view through Nov. 13 in Wright State Student Union Art Gallery.(11/5/2009)

600 Choose Ohio First scholars to be recognized as tomorrow’s workforce -- The inaugural class of Choose Ohio First scholars—nearly 600 students from eight colleges and universities in the Dayton region—will be recognized by Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Eric D. Fingerhut, Jim Leftwich, president and CEO of the Dayton Development Coalition and others, at a 2:00 p.m. ceremony Sunday, Nov. 8, at the Dayton Convention Center. U.S. Air Force Col. Bradley D. Spacy, commander of the 88th Air Base Wing and Installation at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, will give the keynote address.(11/4/2009)

Public health care forum at Wright State University offers chance to ask questions, share opinions -- From the H1N1 pandemic to insurance reform, few topics today inspire so much passion or raise so many questions as health care. To help people make sense of these complicated issues, the Wright State University Student Government is sponsoring a health care forum entitled "Your Money, Your Health: A Discussion about Health Care," on Monday, November 9. The forum, which is free and open to the public, will run from 5:30 to 8 p.m. in the Student Union atrium on campus.(11/3/2009)

What you can do to control credit card debt: tips from Wright State finance expert -- There are several things consumers can do to cope with the maze of credit card changes now under way by giants of the industry like Visa, MasterCard and Discover, according to William Wood, a Wright State University Raj Soin College of Business faculty member and expert in financial services.(11/2/2009)

Wright State Nursing Institute partners to create "Living Laboratory" home -- A high-tech home that will serve as an educational facility for nurses and other healthcare providers as well as students will open in November at Bethany Village in Centerville, as part of a new collaboration between Graceworks Lutheran Services and the Nursing Institute of West Central Ohio (NIWCO). This will be the first time a family of simulated models, monitored remotely by faculty through robots, will occupy a “Living Laboratory” for nursing instruction at a senior living community. (11/02/2009)