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Former Wright State University president Paige E. Mulhollan, who established Wright State as a founding member of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities, died June 30 in Fayetteville, Arkansas, at the age of 77. Earlier that month, Mulhollan attended …
For the first time in 43 years, Rockafield House, the on-campus home made available to Wright State presidents, is serving Wright State University in a different capacity. In June, Rockafield was temporarily repurposed to be the new Rockafield Alumni Center, …
In May, Joanne Li, professor and chair of the Department of Finance at Towson University in Maryland, was named dean of Wright State University’s Raj Soin College of Business. Li has a Ph.D. in finance from Florida State University and …
At Spring Commencement, Wright State University awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters to Neal Gittleman, the music director of the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra (DPO) for 17 years. Gittleman’s award recognized him as one of the driving forces behind Dayton’s …
In February, Wright State was named among America’s top disability-friendly universities in a new nationally distributed book designed to help disabled high school students select a college. According to College Success for Students with Physical Disabilities by Chris Wise Tiedemann, …
The university celebrated the 10th annual Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day, a national program that encourages girls and boys to visit a workplace. Wright State employees brought more than 100 of their sons, daughters, nieces, nephews, and …