“Overcoming Challenges for Small States in International Diplomacy” is the theme of a virtual lecture by Ambassador Ahmed Sareer and hosted by Wilkes University. The event is at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 22. Members of the campus and greater community can access the lecture via Zoom using the link below. …
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The group is led by Hazleton native, Adam Zanolini, and will later perform at Carnegie Hall for the city-wide AfroFuturism festival. Members of the Chicago- and Detroit-based collective, Autophysiopsychic Millennium, will offer a workshop on the work of multi-instrumentalist and composer Yusef Lateef. The event will be held from 4 to …
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340. That is the number of documents processed in just two hours at Wilkes University during the Third Annual Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon held on Tuesday. Feb. 15. Wilkes students, faculty and staff participated in the transcribing session which honors both Frederick Douglass Day and Black History Month. This year the …
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Note: This article was published in the Times Leader on Feb. 13, 2022 Reflections from a New NeighborGreg Cant, Wilkes University President I made my first official visit to Wilkes-Barre in 2019 while interviewing to become the seventh president of Wilkes University. Knowing that Wilkes could be our future home, …
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One workshop encourages health care professionals to write pandemic stories using the tools of narrative medicine. The Wilkes University Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing will host a variety of writing workshops in February, March and April. Workshops are open to adults of all ages and experience levels – …
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Wilkes University Provost David M. Ward announced the Dean’s List for the fall 2021 semester.
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The Wilkes University English Department will host the Allan Hamilton Dickson Fund Spring Writers Series featuring Richard Boada, Jason Schneiderman and Margaret Atwood. Throughout the spring 2022 semester, the guest artists will visit campus to read from their work and discuss the creative process. RESCHEDULED FROM TUESDAY, FEB. 8: The …
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Wilkes University students, faculty and staff recognize Black History Month with a variety of lectures and events throughout February. 11 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 3: The Impact of Colorism on the BIPOC CommunityHeld via Zoom Jane Sanchez Swain, assistant director for degree completion programs and PhD student at Montclair State University, …
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For a college student, time in the library isn’t unusual. But an undergraduate student processing documents and artifacts from World War I? That’s a whole other story. As a history major and an intern for the Wilkes University Archives, senior Logan Yeakel took advantage of a unique opportunity to bring …
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The Wilkes University Center for Global Education and Diversity held a Spring International Orientation welcome event that celebrated the more than 30 incoming international students on Tues., Jan. 11, 2022. The mid-year group representing 10 countries is the largest that Georgia Costalas, the Center’s executive director, has witnessed in her …