While graduating students have had their official celebration put on hold due to COVID-19, Wright State will recognize their many achievements as they have completed their degree requirements.
Wright State seniors Zack Carpenter and Matt Barrett received scholarships and funds to attend the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference in December.
The student intern will serve as a liaison for The ONEIL Center to the entrepreneurial community and focus on business development and building relationships.
Wright State Career Services and the Alumni Association helped senior Jacquelyn Smith line up a job as a software engineer months before she graduates.
Yang Xiao, who earned a master’s and a doctorate in computer science from Wright State, is a professor of computer science at the University of Alabama.
The estate of the late Klaus and Anna Otten funds scholarships in the Wright State College of Engineering and Computer Science.
Hussein S. Al-Olimat earned his Ph.D. in computer science in 2019 from Wright State, conducing research on "Knowledge-enabled Entity Extraction" with Kno.e.sis.
Nearly 100 Wright State graduates work out of the Beavercreek office of Leidos, which has nurtured a pipeline of talent from the university.
Brian Rigling had served as interim dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science since July 2018.
The grant from the Ohio Department of Higher Education will help support student recruitment and continuation for the first two academic years.
