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Nov 28, 2016

After 19 years of service, Science and Mathematics' Librarian, Mary Lou Baker Jones is retiring.  She has presented posters or panels at local, state, national and international conferences and co-authored articles on teaching chemical literature and on the challenges of filling academic science librarian positions. She was instrumental in expanding the library’s involvement with the Exploring STEMM program (among her many other efforts). Over the years she has team-taught a Chemistry course...

Nov 28, 2016
Wright State was named to the 2015 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for the university’s support of volunteering, student community service, service learning and civic engagement.
Nov 28, 2016
Wright State undergraduate students from Ohio can save up to 20 percent on tuition by taking undergraduate classes during the summer semester, under the university’s Summer Tuition Rebate plan.
Nov 17, 2016
All smoking and smokeless tobacco products, as well as nicotine-delivering products like e-cigarettes, will be prohibited from use anywhere on campus.
Nov 16, 2016

It only takes a minute of conversing with Erin Paquette, Wright State University Biological Sciences student, before realizing that she knows a lot about animals and loves teaching others about them. "I like telling people about nature and all the cool things there are in the outdoors,” she explains in a recent . “My favorite animal is the Giant Ground Sloth. I just want to clone one and name it Timothy."

Erin Paquette graduated from the Dayton Regional STEM...

Nov 14, 2016
photo of biology student Matt Almazan

Senior biological sciences student, Matthew Almazan, won a presentation award at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS). He was among the winners for Best Poster for Developmental Biology with his poster on the role of planarian auricles in chemotaxis. During the past year he worked in Dr. Labib Rouhana's lab studying post-trascriptional regulation in planarian flatworms. Matthew is very involve in campus life serving as the College of Science and...

Nov 7, 2016

Safia Janjua, a first-year Environmental Sciences PhD student, was awarded $20,000 from the Panthera Sabin Snow Leopard Grant Program for her proposal "Genetic insight of last surviving snow leopard population of Pakistan employing next generation sequencing for its improved conservation and management.” Because snow leopards are endangered, secretive, and cryptic, they are very difficult to study in the wild. Safia’s award will enable her to design and optimize genetic probes for...

Nov 7, 2016
As director for faculty development and leadership, Stephanie Goodwin is responsible for assessing, developing and implementing campus-wide faculty development/leadership initiatives.
Nov 1, 2016
Anthony Bell is conducting master’s degree research on fish physiology and contemplating becoming a professional fisherman.
Oct 31, 2016
The scholarships will pay up to $2,500 in tuition per semester for a full-time graduate student who is also a current member in good standing with the Ohio National Guard.

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