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Dr. Michael Leffak and his team of researchers within Wright State's Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department have dedicated over 20 years of time and effort to gain a better understanding of how cells divide. That effort has resulted in the discovery of a key element in cell division, a protein called DUE- B (DNA Unwinding Element).
Julia Reichert, a professor of film at Wright State and two-time Oscar nominee, was recently awarded an Emmy (Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking) for her sixth and most recent documentary, A Lion in the House. The award was shared with co-creators Steven Bognar, Sally Jo Fifer and Lois Vossen.
This year, Al Gore's nonfiction work An Inconvenient Truth was selected to be the centerpiece for Wright State's Common Reading program. The decision to nominate An Inconvenient Truth in particular came from the suggestion of Doug Saul, Learning Communities Program Director.
Carolyn Smith, Executive Assistant to the Vice President of Student Affairs and Enrollment Services, plans to retire on Sept. 28th of this year after working at Wright State for 30 years. Smith arrived at WSU in 1977 after leaving her role as director of a co-op program at Wilberforce University where she helped place students in career related jobs, a role that she filled during her first 13 years at Wright State before becoming the Executive Assistant to the Vice President of Student Affairs.
Wright State is a popular option for Dayton area Post Secondary Enrollment Option Program (PSEO) students. There are approximately 169 currently enrolled on the main and lake campuses, according to Tina Hileman, Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions.
The Post Secondary Option Program (PSEO) allows high school students to earn college credit while still in high school. Which college a student attends depends largely on where they live, mainly due to sensitivity to commuting. The program is popular at Wright State, but also prominent in other communities and at other colleges.
Wright State is known for its diversity among it's students. For every denomination there seems to be a student organization devoted to them, and for Muslims, that organization is the Muslim Student Association. "MSA is particularly important at WSU because it allows the collegiate society to step back and view Islam from a greater and more respectful perspective," explains the president and vice-president of the MSA, Mohammed Odeh and Moody Kassem, respectively.
The second stage of the renovation at Rike Hall is scheduled to begin this week and will be completed by the end of winter break. It involves remodeling the student services and administrative areas. The first stage is finished, explained J. Michael Bernstein, PhD.
The Raj Soin College of Business will be considered for reaccredidation by the Association for the Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), an international organization which accredits business schools in 2011, said Barbara Denison, Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management.
The new data management tool, TK20, has been implemented this summer, giving Wright State education students an important tool in maintaining all their data, not only while in school, but for years after graduation. The TK20 was designed specifically for accreditation.
2006 marked the 35th anniversary of Wright State University's Bolinga Black Cultural Resources Center and sparked a desire to get the center back to its roots. According to the Bolinga Center website, www.wright.edu/amid/bolinga, one of their original goals was to make easily accessible, by housing in one location, a variety of resources on the black experience.
