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 …
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Students from SHINE of Luzerne County at Wilkes University spread holiday cheer to residents of area nursing homes and rehabilitation centers. The SHINE students from Maple Manor Elementary Center in Hazleton created hand-written holiday cards for the residents at Mountain City Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Hazle Twp., Pa., and The Meadows, …
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Mel Fouts’ research to convert the pollutant nitrogen oxide into less harmful byproducts recently earned her top honors at a national conference. The junior environmental engineering major presented a poster titled “Examining Internal Temperatures of Nitrogen-Containing Plasmas to Understand the Gas-Catalyst Interface” at the American Vacuum Society’s 67th annual symposium, …
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Wilkes alumnus and Man Booker Prize winning author Marlon James continues to achieve incredible success, this time with series order from HBO and the UK’S Channel 4 for the crime drama, Get Millie Black. According to Dateline, Get Millie Black follows “ex-Scotland Yard detective Millie-Jean Black, who returns to Kingston …
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A team of two Nesbitt School of Pharmacy students won second place in the National Pharmacists Clinical Skills Competition hosted by the American Society of Health System Pharmacists. (ASHP) on Dec. 5 and 6, 2021. Allison Middernacht of Milton, Pa., and Jonathan Little of Watsontown, Pa., both fourth professional year …