Retirees
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DDN: Season opener against Air Force sold out
“Fans have stepped up for both the Raiders and Falcons in an unprecedented show of support,” said Wright State Athletics Director Brad Chandler. “We’ve hinted at a few surprises, but simply put, the Nutter Center will be the place to be for the opening night of college basketball.”
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DDN Archdeacon: Wright State’s Serbian duo — “This is going to be great.’
Wright State’s Serbian duo Nikola Djapa and Ilija Milijaševic were teammates on the Serbian Junior National Team that won a bronze medal at the U-18 European Championships in Izmir, Turkey.
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DDN: Wright State Professor Emeritus David Lee Garrison explores love, loss and aging through poetry
Garrison’s first book of poems, “Blue Oboe,” was published in 1984. His latest, “Tailfins,” is out later this year. This book of poems tells stories about the decades of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s and also deals with various turning points in life, like cancer, marriage, breakups and aging.
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DDN: A script for the soul: Finding health, spirit and healing in Aisle 3
Dr, Sarah Gillis teaches medical students that true wellness isn’t found on a prescription pad—it lives at the local juice bar, on our kitchen tables, and in the everyday choices that feed our families.
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DDN Archdeacon: ‘A match made in heaven’
One of the first people to welcome Brad Chandler, the new Wright State athletics director, to town was his University of Dayton counterpart, Neil Sullivan. “He’s a great guy and we had a great conversation. But he did reiterate: ‘We’re not going to play you guys in men’s basketball!’
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WKEF: Wright State celebrates innovation at annual Wright Brothers Day event
The event commemorated Wilbur Wright’s 39-minute flight at Huffman Prairie on October 5, 1905, a milestone that demonstrated the Wright brothers’ progress toward developing a practical airplane.
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DDN: Dayton-area native, longtime Coen brothers storyboard artist dies in California
The Tom Hanks Center for Motion Pictures at Wright State University wrote on social media that the artist passed away with his sister by his side in California.
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WSU Guardian: Wright State proposes a reorganization of colleges for fall 2028
The WSU Board of Trustees determined that the goals of the reorganization are to “align academic programs with industry trends and emerging workforce needs” and “forge enduring collaborative relationships with partners and communities in defense, engineering and technology and healthcare” along side preschool-twelfth grade education.
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DDN: Wright State faculty say civics center faculty overpaid
Some visiting faculty hired at Wright State University’s new Civics and Culture Workforce Development Center have a salary range significantly higher than similar visiting faculty in the university, according to data obtained by the Dayton Daily News.
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WKEF: Wright State-Air Force matchup to kick off Big Hoopla events tied to NCAA First Four
“This is more than just a basketball game. This is about a community bringing together folks from the military, honoring those in the military, and we’ll be having a swearing-in ceremony, so it’s a really exciting time. And there’s a great basketball game too.”
Upcoming Events
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Midterms 2026: What just happened?
Join us to discuss the election results with Lee Hannah, Ph.D., on Thursday, Nov. 19, 1 p.m. in Room 157 of the Student Union.
See what’s coming up in our Events Calendar
