Students from the Nesbitt School of Pharmacy scored a big win, earning the Media/Communication Award for the 2025 Script Your Future Team Challenge. Script Your Future, founded in 2011, is a national consumer education campaign that helps to raise awareness about the importance of medication adherence as a vital first …
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In a world overcome by environmental collapse, corporate greed and unchecked bureaucracy, will anyone stand up to the powers-that-be and fight for the privilege to pee? That’s the question at the center of Urinetown, the satirical musical that will storm the stage at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the …
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Helen Zughaib visited the Sordoni Art Gallery in late October to introduce her Migrations exhibit to campus and the community. Now the artist will return for a special micro-residency featuring a panel discussion, cocktail reception and last look at the exhibit from Thursday, Feb. 26, to Saturday, Feb. 28. “I …
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Wilkes University’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, sponsored by the Office of Diversity Initiatives and the Multicultural Student Coalition, featured speakers, music and a buffet lunch from Caribbean Paradise. The event honored the late civil rights icon by inspiring the audience to focus on the theme “Imani in Everyday …
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When Wilkes University Theatre stages its production of I Love You Because from Nov. 13-16, the musical will serve as a homecoming celebration of sorts for its director, Sean Patrick Gibbons. Gibbons, visiting assistant professor of theatre, has been a performing arts professional since he was seven years old. After …
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Wilkes University recently celebrated the official opening of the Cohen Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CCEI) with a ribbon cutting and dedication at the Simms Center on Main. Made possible by a $1.5 million gift from the Cohen Family and the Benco Family Foundation, CCEI was designed to support student …
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Jessica Larsen, the Carol and John Cromer Endowed Associate Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Bioengineering at Clemson University, will deliver the Henry and Linda C. Pownall Lecture in Chemistry at Wilkes University at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 22, in Stark Learning Center 105. The lecture, “Leveraging Chemistry …
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Assetou Xango started their journey to Wilkes University in Colorado. Angelique Palmer started hers in the desert of New Mexico. While the student and faculty member’s paths had different first steps, each led to the discovery of a home in the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing. Xango, a …
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Wilkes University hosted the 22nd annual Norman Mailer Society Conference, “What Would Norman Mailer Say?” from Oct. 9-11. In connection with the conference presentations and discussions, the University dedicated the Mailer Archives in the E.S. Farley Library. Norman Mailer’s creative work spanned novels, newsprint, magazine, stage and screen. He produced …
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The Tony Award-winning comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike runs Oct. 2-5 Wilkes University Theatre opens the 2025-26 season with the conflict and the comedy of family dynamics in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang. Under the direction of Jon Liebetrau, associate professor of …