Seventy-two-year-old Tom Miller collected six sheepskins—bachelor’s degrees in political science, international studies, liberal studies, modern languages, anthropology, and geography—when he took the stage at the June commencement. “I’m a student of learning,” Miller said. “I used the courses as a …
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Aug 17, 2012
Justin Estepp describes himself as “just a bench engineer.” But with a small army of student research assistants at his side in the Air Force Research Laboratory’s 711th Human Performance Wing complex at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Estepp is grinding …
Aug 17, 2012
On the first day of class, adjunct instructor Travis Greenwood reveals details of each student’s personal life. He knows that one student has three dogs. He knows that another spent last summer traveling through Europe. He also knows that a …
Aug 17, 2012
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 …
Aug 17, 2012
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, …
Aug 17, 2012
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 …
Aug 17, 2012
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 …
Aug 17, 2012
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, …
Aug 17, 2012
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 …
Aug 16, 2012
As one of two painters on the Dayton Campus’s south zone, James “Jimmy” Storm stays busy maintaining the wall surfaces of more than two dozen buildings.
