The Wilkes University Biology Club will hold its annual 100-mile Relay for Heat to raise funds to assist local families with their heating bills. All contributions are given to the Commission for Economic Opportunity (CEO) Martin Luther King Fuel Fund and used exclusively to avert home heating crises. The event…
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Dave Eggers, best-selling author and founder of McSweeney’s, will be the featured writer opening the Wilkes English Department’s Allan Hamilton Dickson Fund Spring Writers Series on Feb. 28. But what does it take to bring in such an accomplished writer, educator and philanthropist to campus? News@Wilkes chats with Mischelle Anthony,…
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Joan Ford ‘75 Library Technician, Library Acquisitions E.S. Farley Library 1. What do you do as a technician and working in acquisitions in Farley Library? I catalog new books for the library and help maintain the collection, purchase library supplies and prepare invoices for payment and do whatever I can…
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If you stop by Chad Stanley’s Kirby Hall office, you might be greeted by someone who isn’t a member of the Wilkes University English Department. Stanley, an associate professor of English, often brings his dog Bonita Rosa – her name means “beautiful rose” in Spanish – to his office on…
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Wilkes University’s Civic Band, and its director, Philip Simon, will host the 72nd Annual Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Band Festival from March 8-10. Student musicians from 28 college and university band programs from across the state will come to Wilkes to rehearse and perform under the baton of Maj. Michelle Rakers, former…
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In honor of Engineering Week 2019, News@Wilkes looks at one of the senior projects tackled by engineering students. Watch out for the traffic in the hallway near Room 248 in Stark Learning Center. It’s where a group of senior mechanical engineering students are test driving their senior project. The team,…
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Mary Watkins Interlibrary Loan Technician E.S. Farley Library 1. What do you do as the interlibrary loan technician at the library? Interlibrary loan offers access to materials needed for research which are not available at Farley Library. I process the interlibrary loan requests on ILLiad (an electronic system used to…
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SHINE of Luzerne County at Wilkes University and the Office of Diversity Initiatives at Wilkes will hold the event African American Read-In on Feb. 21. The event will take place at the Wilkes-Barre Area Career and Technical Center, 350 Jumper Road, Wilkes-Barre from 4:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. During the…
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Brooke Ariel Giarratano of Mountain Top, Pa., is part of a family of colonels. Her grandfather, Anthony Michael ’74, mother, Barbara Michael Giarratano ’89, and sister Tara Giarratano Morrison ’17 all attended Wilkes. When Giarratano was thinking of her college future, they encouraged her to wear blue and gold. But…
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Holly Trostle Brigham, award-winning artist from Philadelphia, and Heather Sincavage, director of the Sordoni Art Gallery at Wilkes University, were interviewed by Erika Funke on WVIA Radio’s ArtScene program. Sincavage and Brigham were speaking about the exhibition, “Sacred Sisters,” a collaboration between Holly Trostle Brigham and poet Marilyn Nelson. The…