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Women’s Center sponsors student artist and activist
Student Charmaine Renee, an art major, is using art to express her concern about sexual violence and to help victims tell their stories. Renee is participating in action to raise the voices of those...
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Apocalypse now
Zombies & Gender in Pop Culture, a course taught by Wright State lecturer Andrea Harris, examines the social impact of zombie shows. As images of a zombie apocalypse in “The Walking Dead” unspool...
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College of Liberal Arts recognizes community partners at internship celebration
Alexandria Gray, an English major focusing on professional writing, was one of the students who participated in the College of Liberal Arts Internship Breakfast Celebration. From the English language...
View ArticleWright State U professor feeds students’ brains with academic analysis of...
Excerpt Many young people have an undying interest in zombies, so a southwest Ohio college professor focuses a class on them. Andrea Harris of Wright State University teaches “Zombies & Gender in...
View ArticleCrocheting for a cause
A group of Wright State University staff has gone through miles of yarn to create more than 400 items for those in need. Since 2012, the Wright State Knitting/Crocheting Circle has donated 147 afghans,...
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Wright State, City of Dayton collaborate on effort to support emerging women...
Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley ’09, left, is working with Kelli Zaytoun, interim director of Wright State’s Women’s Center and associate professor of English, and Kimberly Barrett, vice president of...
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CLASS action
The new Center for Liberal Arts Student Success (CLASS) in the College of Liberal Arts combines advising, faculty/student relationship-building, peer mentoring and career counseling. Wayne Stark is...
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Anti-sexist activist Jackson Katz to speak at Wright State
Jackson Katz will give a free talk at Wright State as part of the university’s Year of the Active Bystander program on Oct. 13 in the Student Union Apollo Room. Jackson Katz, one of America’s leading...
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Poetry in motion
Graduate English students Sebastian Williams, left, and Sonora Humphreys serve as managing editors of “The Emily Dickinson Journal,” which is published by Wright State’s Department of English Language...
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Wright State medical student prepares to lead national SNMA organization
Christen Johnson is a third-year medical student at the Boonshoft School of Medicine and president-elect of the Student National Medical Association. When she was 3 years old, Christen Johnson’s mother...
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Sultans of Swing will examine links between baseball, jazz and fiction
Wright State University will launch a series of lectures, a conference and gala that’s sure to appeal to fans of baseball, jazz and literature. The Sultans of Swing: 100 Years of Baseball, Jazz and...
View ArticleCelebrating quilt stories
Celebrating quilt stories is the theme of the quilt show held Jan. 28 to Jan. 30 in the Apollo Room of the Student Union at Wright State University. The third annual show features hundreds of...
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Wright State installs exhibit on history of women and voting as presidential...
The Wright State Women’s Center and its director, Nicole Carter, created an exhibit in the Millett Hall atrium on the history of women in voting that will be on display until the presidential debate on...
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Wright State’s 2017 Martin Luther King Jr. celebration to feature...
A long-table discussion, open-mic poetry, the screening of a documentary about civil rights activist Bayard Rustin and a tribute to the Bolinga Black Cultural Resources Center will highlight Wright...
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‘Quilts of Hospice’ will be exhibited at Wright State’s fourth annual Quilt Show
“Quilt Show: Celebrating Quilt Stories” takes place in the Wright State Student Union Jan. 19 to Jan. 21. Forty-seven quilts that were created for patients’ rooms at Hospice of Dayton will highlight...
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“Celebrating quilt stories” was the theme of the quilt show held Jan. 19 to Jan. 21 in the Apollo Room of the Student Union at Wright State University. The fourth annual show featured hundreds of...
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More than 40 organizations to participate in first College of Liberal Arts’...
More than 40 participants looking to offer internships to Wright State University students will be represented at the College of Liberal Arts’ Internship Partners Expo. The expo will be held Wednesday,...
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Linda Caron named dean of the College of Liberal Arts
Linda Caron, dean of the College of Liberal Arts Linda Caron, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts, has been named dean of the college effective May 1, Provost Thomas Sudkamp announced. “Dr....
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Wright State alumna publishes thriller romance novel
Lara Donnelly graduated from Wright State in 2012 with a degree in English. With glamour and historical cultural events, Wright State alumna Lara Donnelly has crafted a thrilling spy adventure with...
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Scientific American interviews Wright State autism expert
Excerpt Society teaches people with autism from a young age that they are incapable of love, says Jessica Penwell Barnett, assistant professor of sexuality studies in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality...
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Women’s Studies Quilt Show raises money for scholarships
Brenda Hanes of Stewart Heritage Farm, Alpaca Yarns, presented “Alpaca from Farm to Fashion” at the Women’s Studies Quilt Show. Handmade quilts depicting sawtooth cats, a pile of pineapples and other...
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Forums, film screenings, civil rights trip to commemorate Voting Rights Act...
IIyasah Al-Shabazz, the daughter of Malcolm X, will speak at Wright State on Feb. 18 during “Daughters Rising from the Dust: Children of the Civil Rights Movement Speak Out,” part of “The Phoenix...
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Women’s History Month residency to feature trans activist and biologist
Julia Serano, a transgender activist, biologist and spoken-word performer, will visit Wright State March 24-26 as the Women’s History Month Scholar-in-Residence. Julia Serano, Ph.D., a transgender...
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Noted economist Yana van der Meulen Rodgers to make two presentations at...
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers is professor of women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University. Economist Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, a professor of women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University,...
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Wright State Women’s Center to celebrate 25th anniversary
The Women’s Center is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Festivities include a breakfast in January attended by Wright State President Cheryl B. Schrader. The center will also host a reception...
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Bestselling author to speak for Women’s History Month
Bestselling author Jennifer Finney Boylan will give a keynote address for Women’s History Month. Bestselling author Jennifer Finney Boylan will give a keynote address, “Gender and Imagination: An...
View ArticleInternational Women’s Day celebration planned
March 8 is the 100th annual International Women’s Day, a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women of the past, present and future. Wright State University will...
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Symposium keynote speaker to discuss sexual violence
The keynote lecture of the 2012 Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality Symposium will address the racial implications of the SlutWalks movement. In cities across America, victims of sexual crimes and their...
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Women’s Center and Women’s Studies sponsor scholar-in-residence
On Thursday afternoon, March 8, Jennifer McWeeny, Ph.D., will lead a reading group focused on her article “Liberating Anger, Embodying Knowledge: A Comparative Study of María Lugones and Zen Master...
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Celebrating 20 years of leadership, resource sharing, events and advocacy
Due to the recommendations of the Task Force on the Status of Women in the Academy and the work of many administrators and allies, the Women’s Center opens in 1993. Mary Beth Pringle, Ph.D., chair of...
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Acclaimed poet visits Wright State for reading and workshop
Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie has been published in the Crab Orchard Review, BOMB, Paris/Atlantic, Go, Tell Michelle (SUNY), Listen Up! (One World Ballantine) and Revenge and Forgiveness (Henry Holt)....
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Workshop to examine economics, democracy and violence in India
The Wright State departments of economics, English, religion, women’s studies and the Women’s Center are sponsoring a workshop that will examine Indian economic policy and the new controversial face of...
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TED TALKS
Rewriting the formula for college success. Enhancing learning through brain stimulation. Bringing numbers to life. Examining racial identity. Learning leadership secrets. These are the topics of talks...
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More than 900 people experience TEDxDayton
Diverse speakers and performances that touched on everything from translational leadership to the color of music were featured in the inaugural TEDxDayton, an event designed to spread ideas and...
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Brilliance lost
Stefan Pugh On Stefan Pugh’s office door is a plaque that reads “Brage Golding Distinguished Professor of Research,” a declaration not only of this professor’s remarkable accomplishments in the field...
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Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality Symposium celebrates identity and social...
Jakobi Williams, Ph.D., associate professor at Indiana University, talked to participants after delivering the keynote lecture at the Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality Symposium. Nearly 50 years have...
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Women’s History Month residency to feature CNN VP of diversity and inclusion
As part of her Women’s History Month residency, Geraldine Moriba will deliver the second Anita Hill Annual Lecture on Gender Justice on March 13. Geraldine Moriba, the vice president of diversity and...
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Wright State women give new meaning to confidence
Wright State’s Kappa Delta sorority collaborated with the Women’s Center to promote greater self-confidence in women and girls through the “Confidence U” film project. The statistics are sobering. It...
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Rising tide
A play, a concert, an opera. Painting and photography exhibits. Documentary screenings, panel discussions and a research symposium on everything from black feminism to the #MeToo movement. It’s all...
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Black History Month at Wright State
Sharon Jones, professor of English language and literatures. Throughout February Wright State University’s Bolinga Black Cultural Resources Center will host a series of lectures to celebrate Black...
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Bolinga, Sociology, Anthropology issue statement of solidarity for protests...
Wright State University’s Bolinga Black Cultural Resources Center, the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and combined programs of Applied Behavioral Sciences, African and African American...
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Bolinga Center to host series celebrating notable Black women March 29-30
Bolinga Black Cultural Resources Center at Wright State University will host “What’s HERstory”,” a series of online events focused on the lives and lived experiences of notable Black women throughout...
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Wright State art historian Karla Huebner to give online talks on surrealist...
Karla Huebner, professor of art history at Wright State, published “Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic” in 2020. Karla Huebner, Ph.D., professor of art history at Wright State University,...
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Wright State Women’s Luncheon to feature university leaders discussing career...
Women’s Center Director Nicole Carter Career growth will be the theme of the Wright State Women’s Luncheon, which will feature a panel discussion with university leaders on career challenges and...
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‘Undesign the Redline’ exhibits highlight Black History Month at Wright State...
“Undesign the Redline” is on display on the second floor of Dunbar Library. The program also includes faculty lectures, screening of a documentary film on the Bolinga Black Cultural Resources Center, a...
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Gary Schmidt of Coastal Carolina University named dean of College of Liberal...
Gary Schmidt will join Wright State as dean of the College of Liberal Arts on June 1. Gary Schmidt, Ph.D., an experienced administrator from Coastal Carolina University, has been named dean of the...
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Spring 2022 class notes
Warren Gavin ’02, ’07 Warren Gavin ’02, ’07 Students often wonder why they’re required to learn something they think they’ll never use. That goes for then-Boonshoft School of Medicine student Warren...
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