Jen Heemstra, PhD, will present this year’s Catherine H. Bone Lecture, “Tracking the Edits that Rewrite the RNA Code,” at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 15, in the Henry Student Center, 2nd Floor, Jean and Paul Adams Commons, 84 W. South Street, Wilkes-Barre. The lecture is free and open to …
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Spring break is a tradition for students to flee toward balmier, sunnier locales. The Wilkes GeoExplorers Club is no exception in seeking out the comfort of warmer climates. The GeoExplorers is an outdoor club focused on providing students hands-on learning experiences through the exploration of geologically interesting locations, such as …
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It had been a damp and blustery day as the group of Honors Program students made their way toward Ross Castle, the 15th-century towerhouse located in Killarney National Park in southwest Ireland. As the exciting, but dreary, day pressed on, a large herd of Irish red deer suddenly dashed across …
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Paleoecologist and biological anthropologist, Daniel R. Green, will present this year’s Grace Kimball Memorial Lecture, “Chemical Paleontology: Paleoclimate and Evolution from the East African Rift System,” at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 18, in Stark Learning Center 105. The lecture is free and open to the public. Global cooling over …
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This holiday season, P3 pharmacy student Amanda Lee worked tirelessly, along with her coaches, to put together the second annual Wilkes Women’s Soccer Holiday Gift Drive. Building on the success of their inaugural year in 2024, Lee brought together 14 teams across Wilkes athletics, as well as the Wilkes-Barre / …
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For assistant biology professor Yuzo Yanagitsuru, it all boils down to something quite simple: “I like fish.” It may sound straightforward, but anyone who knows him would understand that Yanagitsuru’s journey to Wilkes, and the research he oversees here, has been the culmination of a lifelong passion.
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This past June, four undergraduate students in the sociology / criminology program at Wilkes attended the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association (ASA) and the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) in Chicago. Accompanied by professors Andrew Wilczak and Kaitlyn Langendoerfer, students Alyssa Donnini, Lindsey Kausmeyer, Courtney …