Philip Ehrhorn, the co-founder and chief technology officer of The Great Bubble Barrier, will deliver a lecture at Wilkes University on Tuesday, April 14 at 7:00 p.m. in the Sordoni Art Gallery, 141 S. Main St., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. This event is free and open to the public. In his presentation, …
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Alan K. Stout, executive director of Visit Luzerne County, will be the keynote speaker at Wilkes University’s 25th annual Tom Bigler Journalism & Media Conference. The conference will be held on Friday, April 10, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Tom Bigler Journalism & Media Conference invites local high …
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Wilkes University has been awarded a $21,795 “It’s On Us” grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The grant, which is part of a broader $1.7 million investment to colleges and universities across the state, will be used to raise awareness about sexual and intimate-partner violence. Wilkes was the only school …
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The Sordoni Art Gallery at Wilkes University will welcome two new photography exhibitions this spring: Why Am I Sad and Formal / Informal: Innovations in Portraiture. On display from March 24 to May 15, the exhibitions examine internal emotion and external presentation, inviting viewers to reflect on how personal experience …
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Wilkes University will collaborate with King’s College to host the annual 2026 Women’s and Gender Studies Conference on Mar. 30 and 31, on the Wilkes University campus in the Henry Student Center. The theme of this year’s conference is “Gender and Citizenship: Past, Present, and Future.” Lucia McMahon, professor in …
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Wilkes University will host the Scholastic Writing Awards Ceremony for the northeastern Pennsylvania region on Sunday, March 22, 2026 in the Henry Student Center. Student honorees as well as their teachers and family members will attend the ceremony. For this year’s awards, the northeastern Pennsylvania region received over 100 entries, …
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Collaboration between academic disciplines often is a matter of finding shared interests. In Andy Miller and Jeff Stratford’s case, they found common ground in a cup of coffee. Miller, a political science professor, and Stratford, a biology professor and chair of biology and earth systems science, have been collaborating since …
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When imagining what it’s like to be a pharmacist, a familiar image often comes to mind: a person in a white coat behind the counter filling prescriptions. The reality is so much more. For high school students who may be considering a future in the pharmacy field, RxExperience at Wilkes …
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Wilkes University announced today that it has joined the Google AI for Education Accelerator program to offer career-focused resources for students. The program, a national initiative to support AI skill building, includes access to valuable training resources and tools that can be used for research, classroom projects, professional development and …
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On Tues., Feb. 3, a flag of red, black and green was raised above the Wilkes University campus in the Fenner Quadrangle as part of a celebration for Black History Month hosted by the Office of Diversity Initiatives, E.S. Farley Library and Black Student Union. Created in 1920 by Marcus …