Alumni Profiles: Linda Gillispie, ’73, '76 and Raymond Umstead, ’75
Linda Gillispie received her Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology in 1973 and Master of Education degree in school psychology in 1976 from Wright State University. In addition to her degrees from Wright State, she earned her Ph.D. in educational leadership from the University of Dayton.
Alumni Profiles: Tarin Mink, '02 and Thais C. Reiff, '81
Tarin Mink graduated from Wright State University in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts in Social Work from the College of Liberal Arts.
A film whose production designer is Wright State graduate Hannah Beachler captured the top two prizes at the Sundance Film Festival, the premier showcase for independent film.
Alumni Profiles: Nina Carter, '04, '06 and Randy Marriott, '91
Nina Carter is employed by Miami Valley Child Development Centers, Incorporated, as program manager for the Edison T.O.T.S. (Taking Off To Success) Program, an early learning initiative that supports families with raising happy and healthy children who enter school ready to learn.
Alumni Profiles: Randall P. Wagner, '80 and Sarah Staker, ’08
Randall Wagner enrolled at Wright State University in 1976, immediately after being discharged from the U.S. Navy where he served as a hospital corpsman with the Marines.
Alumni Profiles: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, ’78 and Alan E. Wolters, ’88, ’90
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author, poet, and teacher of writing. Her work has been published in over 50 magazines, including the Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker, and her writing has been included in over 50 anthologies.
Alumni Profiles: Kris Kropff, '99 aand William H. Pohlman, '76
Music has always been a part of life for Kris Kropff. She received a half-size guitar for Christmas at the age of 3 and began taking piano lessons after school every day when she was 5. In the fifth grade, she started to play the saxophone because she liked the sax solos in Pink Floyd.
Alumni Profiles: Nelda Martinez, '70, '82 and Steve Hampton, '80
Attained her bachelor of science degree in nursing in 1978 from Wright State University followed by her master of science in rehabilitation/community health nursing from Wright State in 1982. In so doing, Martinez was the first Hispanic American to graduate from both of these degree track programs in nursing at Wright State.
Armed with a powerful wit and a desire to make people laugh, Ryan Singer has been a success as a comedian since his graduation from Wright State University in 2002 — and that’s no joke!
Alan Dine’s research career began with an internal medicine physician studying cardiac function measurement using echo, Doppler, and EKG.
