For plenty of Wilkes students, faculty and staff, this past week may have been a break from the usual campus routine, but it wasn’t spent relaxing on the beach. Colonels hit the road and took to the skies for a variety of locations in the U.S. and abroad: Students traveled…
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Luzerne County Head Start, Inc. and Wilkes University welcomed best-selling author, Ellen Galinsky, to the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts at Wilkes University on March 3, 2023. Galinsky presented “Learning and Thriving: Questions and Lessons Learned” to early childhood education staff at Head Start and aspiring educators…
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The unseasonably warm winter being experienced in northeast Pennsylvania has prompted questions about the impact on the pest population including ticks. Ticks belong to a group of invertebrates akin to spiders, and feed on the blood of mammals, birds, and sometimes reptiles and amphibians. Tick-borne illnesses can infect humans through…
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Many students, faculty and staff came out on Tuesday, February 14 to participate in the fourth annual Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon, an event held on the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass. The event, sponsored by the Wilkes University Division of Global Cultures, the Office of Diversity Affairs and the Sordoni Art…
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Wilkes University Theatre invites audience members to fall in love with Sweet Charity at 8 p.m. on Feb. 23, 24 and 25, and 2 p.m. on Feb. 25 and 26, at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts, 239 S. River St., Wilkes-Barre. Sweet Charity, with a book…
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Nicholas Antolick, a junior political science major at Wilkes University, was awarded a 2022 Norton Writer’s Prize for his essay, “Learn to Be Nice: How Aristotle Offers a Solution to Rape Culture.” Antolick crafted the essay during his fall 2021 English composition class with Mischelle Anthony, associate professor of English.…
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Wilkes students, faculty and staff gathered to honor the life of Tyre Nichols and bring awareness to his violent death. The event was hosted by the Multicultural Student Coalition at the Fenner Quadrangle near the center of campus. Kathrine Ermeus, president of the Multicultural Student Coalition, opened the program. Ermeus…
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The Wilkes University English Department will open the Allan Hamilton Dickson Fund Spring Writers Series with a reading by Zakes Mda at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 15, in the Kirby Hall Salon. Mda is a South African and American-African Appalachian writer, painter and music composer. He has published 24…
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When looking for a college, Hannah Hart of Hamilton, N.J. didn’t have to choose between her passions—she was able to pursue all of her talents and still graduate on time. As a high school student from Hamilton, N.J., Wilkes senior Hannah Hart had a dilemma. She was passionate about the…
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On Thursday, Jan. 19, speaker, coach, consultant and pastor Rev. Shawn Walker spoke to a standing-room-only crowd in the Sordoni Art Gallery with an inspirational message of change honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. Walker’s talk included reflections on personal experience with racism, and how we all need to move forward,…