Tyler Dragon, of Shavertown, Pennsylvania, will graduate from Wilkes with a double major in mechanical engineering and electrical engineering, but he didn’t spend all of his time in the lab. His passion for percussion earned him a spot in the 75th Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Band, which performed this spring at Commonwealth …
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Wilkes University recently named Cristina Spradlin of Exeter, Pa., as the recipient of the Outstanding Adult Learner of the Year Award for 2023. Spradlin will graduate on Saturday, May 20, with a bachelor of arts in psychology. While Spradlin initially attended college after graduating from Wyoming Area, a change in …
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Wilkes University inducted nine students to the Theta Delta Chapter of the Beta Beta Beta national biological honor society. The new members include: Cayla Stiles, Bangor.; Isaias Torres, Wilkes-Barre.; Esther Orlando, East Stroudsburg; Marissa Kovaleski, West Wyoming; Krishna Patel, Duryea; Alena Lateef, Presto; Joshua Dombroski, Coal Township; Maxine Bodnari, Fleetwood …
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Wilkes University hosted a flag raising ceremony honoring the International Transgender Day of Visibility on Friday, March 31. The event, organized by the student-led Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA), featured remarks from Greg Cant, president of Wilkes University, and Helen H. Davis, associate professor of English and GSA advisor, as …
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Charlotte Hoffman Moser, MS, co-director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, will present this year’s Grace Kimball Memorial Lecture, “Science Communication: It’s Not Just About the Facts,” at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 12, in the Henry Student Center Ballroom. The lecture is free and open …
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The Wilkes University English Department will conclude the 2023 Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series with a reading by Amy E. Earhart at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 12, in the Kirby Hall Salon. Earhart is an associate professor of English and affiliated faculty of Africana Studies at Texas A&M …
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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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The Wilkes University English Department and the Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series will host a reading by Ann E. Wallace at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 15, in the Karambelas Media and Communication Center, Room 135. Ann E. Wallace, PhD, is Poet Laureate of Jersey City, New Jersey. A …
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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. …