The University will present the President’s Award and the Chairperson’s Award at the annual celebration. Wilkes University will celebrate its legacy of educating first-generation college students at the 2025 Founders Gala at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 8, at the Westmoreland Club, 59 South Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre. This year’s event …
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Abas Sabouni, professor and chair of the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, has been selected to deliver Wilkes University’s 2025 Paul A. O’Hop Final Word Lecture in the Jean and Paul Adams Commons on the second floor of the Henry Student Center at 6 p.m. on Monday, April 7. His presentation, …
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Students face plenty of questions during the college search process. Do you want a big school or a small one? Are you going to commute? What’s your major? While some students feel they have to commit to a major before starting their college journey, that wasn’t the case for Theresa …
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Students from the Nesbitt School of Pharmacy at Wilkes University are serving the community through the Script Your Future Medication Adherence Team Challenge. Their goal: To raise awareness about the importance of taking medications according to directions. Kelly Sklanka, assistant professor of pharmacy practice, offered several reasons behind a lack …
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Nicholas Kristof, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author visited campus for the 43rd annual Max Rosenn Lecture in Law and Humanities on Sunday, March 16. The Rosenn Lecture was established in 1980 in honor of Judge Max Rosenn’s extraordinary life of law and public service. Over four decades, the …
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Dearest reader, you are invited to the most romantic literary birthday party of the last 250 years. Please join the Wilkes University English Department from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 27, in Weckesser Hall for a ball in honor of novelist Jane Austen. Austen published four novels during …
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While working in the corporate world, Ruth Besson ’21 decided she wanted more from her career. “I woke up and I was like, ‘I want to be able to craft my own fate. I want to be able to dictate where I work and who I work for.’ I no …
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Wilkes University Theatre will present the magical musical Between the Lines at 8 p.m. on Feb. 20, 21 & 22, and 2 p.m. on Feb. 22 & 23, at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts, 239 S. River St., Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Between the Lines is based on …
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When Heather Sincavage, director of the Sordoni Art Gallery, performed at the University of Colorado, she had a chance to see Minor Threat, an exhibition by Gregg Deal. Her first thought was how Wilkes University students would respond to Deal’s work, and her second thought was how to get his …
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Nicholas Kristof, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author, will deliver the Wilkes University Max Rosenn Lecture in Law and Humanities at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 16, 2025, at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts, 239 South River St., Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. How good do you really …