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Wilkes University will hold Earth and Environmental Science Day on Friday, Oct. 19, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The program gives high school teachers and students the opportunity to join faculty experts for hands-on, interactive lab activities and presentations on topics including gravity anomalies, climate change, leaky pipes, water…

Students from the Nesbitt School of Pharmacy at Wilkes University will offer free medication consultations to senior citizens from Luzerne County. Many senior citizens have a list of prescription medications they take regularly and those prescriptions come with a list of questions on side effects, interactions with food and other…

Wilkes University’s ROTC Detachment 752 hosted a ceremony to commemorate the 17th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. The event was highlighted by presenting a Flag of Honor, a special flag that has all names of the victims of the attacks printed on it. The Flag of Honor used at…

Wilkes University Theatre presents the Pulitzer Prize-and the Tony Award-winning play, Clybourne Park. The performances will take place on Sept. 27, 28, and 29 at 8 p.m. with matinee performances on Sept. 29 and 30 at 2 p.m. The production is at Wilkes’ Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing…

Christine Muller, director of the honors program and an assistant professor at Wilkes University, was recently featured in the Citizens’ Voice for her expertise on 9/11 studies and a new history course she is teaching this fall. Muller’s course entitled “Producing the History of 9/11” focuses on the specific day…

The university jumps ten spots while leading in student access and graduate programming Wilkes University is once again included on the U.S. News and World Report annual ranking of American colleges and universities. Wilkes ranked 68 on the list of best regional universities in the north, up ten spots from…

Wilkes University will observe Patriots Day on Tuesday, Sept. 11. Commemorating the 17th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, the event will pay tribute to all those impacted with a ceremony led by the University’s ROTC Detachment 752.  The event will begin at 12:30 p.m. in the Henry Student Center…

Bulldozers and sod. Researchers, writers and school children. Events in the Sordoni Art Gallery. Summer classes and international travel. Summer was no time to snooze at Wilkes. The diversity of the activities, people and events that highlighted summer at the University might surprise those who think that a college campus…

Music blasts from the 90.7 WCLH broadcast booth. Frisbees soar between members of the Ultimate Frisbee club. Tables set with sign-up sheets and poster boards are manned by student leaders excited to share what activities have shaped their college experience. Students gather by the hundreds to participate in what has…

Michael Steele, professor and chair of the biology department at Wilkes University, recently was featured on New Hampshire public radio show in a segment called “Ask Sam.” The anchor, Sam Evans-Brown, tracks down answers to questions about the environment and outdoors. A listener asked Brown, “Do squirrels swim or is…