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The Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University is hosting non-credit creative writing community workshops beginning in January 2020. All workshops are open to adults and will be held on the Wilkes campus. The cost for each workshop series is $65.  The screenwriting master class is $125 …

There’s no mistaking Wagiha Taylor’s office in the Sidhu School of Business. It’s the one with the four-foot tall poster featuring Taylor’s elegant, smiling image and highlighted with Arabic writing. The poster – a memento from an international conference where Taylor was a guest speaker — is mounted on the …

The Wilkes University student team has won the statewide final in the America250PA marketing competition. The marketing competition challenges students to come up with a campaign promoting the 250th anniversary of American independence in Pennsylvania. The team competed at the Nov. 19 event held at the Wilkes-Barre Connect Conference at …

Wilkes University and HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College have entered into articulation agreements that will help HACC graduates transfer to Wilkes to complete their bachelor’s degree. Under the new agreements, students who earn an Associate in Applied Science in early care and education or an Associate in Arts in early …

Wilkes University seniors Korbin Schlichter, mechanical engineering major and AFROTC cadet, and Shannon O’Connor, psychology, sociology and criminology major, like to bring their fur baby Autumn to campus to play ball, get treats and even pull dad along on his skate board. The ever-active Australian Shepard also has an important …

The Wilkes University Civic Band will present a concert of music on Dec. 8 at 3 p.m. in the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts. The concert is conducted by Mark P. Johnson, director of bands. Admission is free and the concert is open to the public. Music …

The Wilkes University campus community lined up to bid farewell to Al Schickner , a campus shuttle bus driver. Schickner, who is retiring after 15 years at the University completed 90,000 trips across the Market St. Bridge during his time at Wilkes. His special farewell included remarks by Interim President …

Members of the Wilkes University Police Department are shaving their facial grooming routines for December as they join police departments throughout the nation for the No Shave November charity event. No Shave November challenge participants forgo shaving in order to provoke conversation regarding cancer awareness and raise critical funds for …

Faculty, staff and students honored fellow educators during Wilkes University’s Celebration of Education event on Wednesday, Nov. 13. Honorees were recognized by the School of Education for their outstanding contributions on campus and in the community. New this year was the awarding of the Joseph and Barbara Bellucci Distinguished Graduate …

National Public Radio’s award-winning host and co-executive producer of Fresh Air, Terry Gross, will deliver the Max Rosenn Lecture in Law and Humanities on Sunday, April 19. The event begins at 2:30 p.m. in the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center, 239 S. River St., Wilkes-Barre. The moderated lecture, “All I Did …