Wilkes University’s Sordoni Art Gallery is presenting “Year of the Vote: Gender, Politics, & Power,” a year-long event celebrating and recognizing the 100-year anniversary of women receiving the right to vote. Multiple events will take place each month, all centered around a specific theme. “We’re not only looking to the…
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Accounting students at Wilkes University’s Jay S. Sidhu School of Business and Leadership will offer free tax preparation to the public through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program. The service will be offered February 1, 8, 15, and 22 by appointment only from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM in…
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Wilkes University was recently awarded a grant from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission for the preservation and digitization of 1972 Agnes Flood related material. The project seeks to highlight the efforts of the Wilkes community during and after the 1972 Agnes Flood. This project, which will be overseen by Suzanna…
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January is Mentoring Month and this News@Wilkes story highlights the strong mentoring culture and the many mentoring relationships on campus. When McKaylah McKay, a digital design and media arts major, needs encouragement on a creative project, she knows she can count on assistant professor Lisa Reynolds. “She always gives you…
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Matt Dacey, a resident of Mountain Top, Pa., had two goals when he came to Wilkes: play baseball and earn his doctor of pharmacy degree. During his first two years on campus, he played first base for the Colonels, fulfilling his dream of playing ball on the college level. “It…
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Wilkes University will commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Thurs., Jan. 23 with an event, “A Call for National Unity.” Sponsored by the Center for Global Education and Diversity, it will take place from 11 a.m. to noon in University Center on Main, rooms 126 and 127, 169 S.…
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Wilkes University has been awarded a $30,000 “It’s On Us” grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This is the third time Wilkes has received the award, which will be used to raise awareness about sexual and intimate-partner violence. An initiative of Governor Tom Wolf, “It’s On Us PA” is a statewide…
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Series Kicks Off Feb.12 With Alice Sola Kim The Wilkes University English Department’s Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series will bring three distinguished writers to campus in the spring 2020 semester. Each of the writers will visit campus to read from his or her work and conduct workshops with students.…
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Wilkes University junior DeAndre DePass has earned an unofficial title on campus. “They call me the mayor of Wilkes even though I’m from Philly,” explains DePass, a marketing and management major in the Sidhu School of Business and Leadership. “People joke around and say I know everyone… I’m just a…
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Wilkes University’s Sid Halsor, a professor of geology at Wilkes University with expertise in rock-forming processes beneath active volcanoes, offers insights about the eruption of New Zealand’s White Island volcano and why predicting its eruption is challenging. New Zealand Volcanic Eruption is a Grim Lesson By Sid Halsor, Ph.D. The…