Laboratory love

Recruiters buy them lunch. They each get job offers from multiple employers. Salaries start at $50,000 a year. Such are the travails of graduates of Wright State University’s Clinical Laboratory Sciences program. “There is so much need right now,” said Director Tammy Bash. “It’s a great time to be in this program. And we’re the only game in town.”

Wright State’s Clinical Laboratory Sciences program was launched in the 1980s after local hospitals closed their training programs because of an oversupply of medical technicians. And when the University of Dayton terminated its program, Wright State