Teachers become students during the residency for Wilkes University’s Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) program happening from Aug 6 to 9. The low-residency program prepares educators for advancement in a teaching, administrative or leadership roles. A combination of theory and research provides the framework for scholarship, innovation and strategic organizational transformation.…
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Jeff Talarigo comes to the Wilkes campus just twice a year – but he’s still a part of the University community year-round as a faculty member in the Maslow Family Graduate Creative Writing Program. The program follows a low-residency format that brings students and faculty to campus twice a year…
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Wilkes University awarded the Norris Church Mailer Scholarship to creative writing student Sara Pisak of Sugarloaf, Pa. Pisak completed her master of arts in creative writing and is pursuing her master of fine arts in the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing. The scholarship was awarded on June 21…
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Wilkes University junior Joshua Eckman’s summer internship has been a rollercoaster ride full of twists, turns and dragons. You read that right. The business management major from Lehighton, Pa., scored a three-month internship with Busch Gardens Williamsburg. “I found out about my internship while searching for places to complete a…
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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 September. All workshops are open to adults and will be held on the Wilkes campus or online. A highlight of the fall workshops will be a master class on screenwriting.…
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A group of students are having a rocky time this summer – and that’s just what they were hoping for. That’s because the eight students are attending a five-week, intensive, project-focused, international geology field camp led by Wilkes faculty on the island of Newfoundland in Canada. The camp, offered for…
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Ellen Weber practically lives in Wilkes University’s Cohen Science Center, processing lake sediment samples she collected last summer in Newfoundland, Canada. “It was the coolest thing I’ve ever done,” Weber says of the climate research trip with Geology professors Sid Halsor and Matt Finkenbinder. The first day, they collected water…
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Girls entering seventh or eighth grade from area middle schools are experiencing the many areas of science through captivating hands-on laboratories this summer at Wilkes University’s Women Empowered by Science Summer Camp. The program began July 21 and runs through July 27. The camp encourages girls to take interest in…
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Wilkes University students in the Nesbitt School of Pharmacy were awarded the National Rookie Award of the 2019 National Consumers League Script Your Future Challenge. The award was presented during the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy annual meeting. The event was held July 13-17 at the Hyatt Regency, Chicago,…
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Wilkes University Doctor of Philosophy in nursing student, Jamie Hankins, was awarded the Promise of Nursing Faculty Fellowship for the Pennsylvania region. The fellowship, administered by the Foundation of the National Student Nurses’ Association, is awarded to registered nurses enrolled in graduate-level, degree-granting programs in select regions of the United States.…