Events

“Coming home” may look and feel a bit different this year, but the camaraderie and Colonel spirit that Wilkes Homecoming is known for will be in full force. In anticipation of this weekend’s virtual celebration, held on Oct. 2 to 4, here are ten things you may not know about …

Wilkes University’s Sordoni Art Gallery resumes programming for “Year of the Vote: Gender, Politics, and Power,” a year-long event celebrating and recognizing the 100-year anniversary of women receiving the right to vote. The series of monthly events launched in January 2020 and has been adapted to constraints posed by the …

The Sordoni Art Gallery at Wilkes University reopens Aug. 25 with the exhibition Drawn to Abstraction: Prints from the 1960s and 70s. The exhibition, which was to have been on display during the spring 2020 semester, launches the gallery’s 2020-2021 year and continues through Nov. 1. This exhibition from the collection of …

Orientation for first-year students at Wilkes introduces them to the University with an event that provides opportunities to make new friends, map students’ academic futures and engage in hands-on activities. New students typically enjoy an overnight stay on campus during orientation.  That was before the COVID-19 pandemic. The solution for …

Wilkes President Greg Cant discussed his plans for moving the University forward in an interview with Larry Vojtko on public radio affiliate WVIA’s Keystone Edition. Watch the interview here.

Wilkes University’s Nesbitt School of Pharmacy will provide high school juniors and seniors with a prescription for a successful career during this summer’s virtual Discover Pharmacy camp. The two-day camp runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 18, and Wednesday, Aug. 19. The fee is $40 per …

Members of the Wilkes University football team were practicing at Artillery Park on an October day in 1967 when the weather turned nasty. As practice ended, the players clambered down the steps, grumbling about having to play in a chilling mix of rain and sleet. Suddenly a man walking among …

A town hall meeting to discuss racial violence and injustice was organized on June 18 by Wilkes University’s Multicultural Student Coalition and the Office of Diversity Affairs in what will be the first in a series of initiatives to raise awareness and educate the campus community. The meeting, which was …

Budgeting can help you navigate your way to affording the vacation of your dreams with going into to debt or save to buy a first home. That was the message Marianne Rexer, professor of accounting the Sidhu School of Business and Leadership, shared with young alumni and recent graduates in …

Wilkes University’s Maslow Foundation Salon Reading Series, which highlights the June 2020 residency for the University’s Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing, will be available for free to the public virtually via online videos. The series features alumni, guests and creative program faculty, many of whom are prize-winning authors, …