Excerpt from the Dayton Business Journal
Wright State University has a long history of partnerships with Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Those efforts continue today, and are growing each year with new programs, facilities and events meant to connect students with the base.
One of the newest projects between Wright-Patt and WSU is the construction of an MRI facility that will be located in the university’s Neuroscience Engineering Collaboration Building. The partnership with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), which is headquartered at the base, will support human performance and health research.
Madhavi Kadakia, vice provost for research and innovation at Wright State, said they expect this will lead to co-location of other research facilities on campus.
“That is a very, very exciting collaboration,” Kadakia said.
Col. Patrick Miller, 88th Air Base Wing and installation commander at Wright-Patt, said they are working on partnerships with WSU to help address the base’s facility issues that stem from a lack of space and aging infrastructure.
“We’re working on partnerships with Wright State in potentially helping us address some facility issues, with some excess facilities on that campus,” Miller said.
