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. …
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It’s been a full circle experience for Wilkes University sophomore Holly Jones who has gone from camper to coordinator of the Women Empowered By Science summer camp, also known as WEBS. WEBS gives campers the opportunity to investigate many areas of science through hands-on laboratories and activities. “I first heard of WEBS …
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SHINE of Luzerne County at Wilkes University has announced that it will open two new centers for its after-school program in September 2019. The after-school centers will be at Kistler Elementary School in the Wilkes-Barre Area School District and the Pittston Intermediate Center in the Pittston Area School District. The …
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Lyn Godley is obsessed with light. That obsession has been what has driven her career as a self-described hybrid artist/designer who works with light. Godley talked about her obsession and the work that it has spawned in a lecture on July 15 at Wilkes University’s Sordoni Art Gallery. Godley’s work …
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Wilkes University’s Nesbitt School of Pharmacy will provide high school juniors and seniors with a prescription for a successful career during the Discover Pharmacy Day Camp this summer. The two-day camp begins Aug. 13 at 8:30 a.m. and concludes Aug.14 at 5 p.m. Overnight accommodations are not available. The fee …