More than 600 high school students from 49 northeast Pennsylvania high schools will compete when Wilkes University hosts the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science regional competition on Saturday, February 29. The event will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the University campus. The students are competing in …
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Two Wilkes University students have been awarded Bierly Fellowships to fund internship experiences in 2020. The Bierly Fellowship funds a credit or non-credit cooperative education or internship experience, an international or domestic study-away experience or off-campus undergraduate research. Fellows are chosen in the fall and spring of each year from …
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Wilkes University’s U.N. Lecture series will host Ambassador Susan M. Elliott, president and CEO of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy. She will discuss the topic “What Do Ambassadors Do?” The lecture will take place March 19 at 4 p.m. in the Miller Room on the second floor of the Henry …
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Acclaimed writer and translator Poupeh Missaghi will visit Wilkes University as part of the Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series. Missaghi will read an excerpt of her debut novel, “trans(re)lating house one,” published by Coffee House Press in February 2020. The event, hosted by the Wilkes English Department, will take …
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A new group of students arrived from the Republic of Panama in January. Sponsored by the Panamanian education agency, Institute for Training and Development of Human Resources (IFARHU), this program allows high-achieving undergraduate students to travel from Panama to study at Wilkes. The students first participate in Wilkes’ nationally accredited …
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In honor of National Engineers Week, Feb. 16-22, News@Wilkes visited a mechanical engineering class. Things were popping on a Tuesday morning in mechanical engineering professor Edward Bednarz’ Advanced Machine Design Class. Entering Room 102 in Cohen Science Center, the air was fragrant with the by-product of one student team’s successful …
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Wei Du, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Wilkes University, has contributed a chapter to the book “Mid-Infrared Optoelectronics: Materials, Devices and Applications.” The book was published in November 2019 by Elsevier Science and Technology. Du’s chapter is “Group IV photonics using (Si) GeSn technology toward mid-IR applications.” It was …
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Senior entrepreneurship major Cody Geidel was in a pickle when he had to come up with a business idea for one of his classes. Luckily, pickles were just what he needed to turn his college assignment into a full-fledged business. “[Geidel’s Pickles] started as a simple project in one of …
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Nancy McKinley, Ph.D., can make a claim few faculty in the Maslow Family Graduate Creative Writing Program can match: She has taught every student in every cohort who has entered the program since its second residency. McKinley co-teaches “The Professional Writer,” the first class taken by all creative writing students …
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Members of the Wilkes University community will take an active role in preserving black history when they participate in a nationwide transcribe-a-thon on Tuesday, Feb. 18 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event, which honors both Frederick Douglass Day and Black History Month, will take place in Breiseth Hall, room …