Events

Through Script Your Future, a national consumer education campaign, student pharmacists spend time helping community members understand the importance of medication adherence.  Paul Blankemeyer is a P3 pharmacy student who grew up in Surf City, New Jersey, but now calls Plains, Pennsylvania, home. He and the rest of the Nesbitt …

Bobak (Bobby) Karimi, associate professor of geology, has been selected to deliver Wilkes University’s Paul A. O’Hop Final Word Lecture. The lecture, “From Tragedy to Transformation: Imaging the Invisible to Rebuild the Wyoming Valley,” will take place at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 8, in the Jean and Paul Adams …

The Sordoni Art Gallery at Wilkes University will welcome two new photography exhibitions this spring: Why Am I Sad and Formal / Informal: Innovations in Portraiture. On display from March 24 to May 15, the exhibitions examine internal emotion and external presentation, inviting viewers to reflect on how personal experience …

A group of students from the Nesbitt School of Pharmacy have been out in northeastern Pennsylvania encouraging the public to “Stick to the Script.” Matt Trbuza, a P3 pharmacy major from Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania (Go Mounties!) is one of the team members determined to highlight the importance of medication adherence in …

Wilkes University will collaborate with King’s College to host the annual 2026 Women’s and Gender Studies Conference on Mar. 30 and 31, on the Wilkes University campus in the Henry Student Center. The theme of this year’s conference is “Gender and Citizenship: Past, Present, and Future.” Lucia McMahon, professor in …

Wilkes University will host the Scholastic Writing Awards Ceremony for the northeastern Pennsylvania region on Sunday, March 22, 2026 in the Henry Student Center. Student honorees as well as their teachers and family members will attend the ceremony.  For this year’s awards, the northeastern Pennsylvania region received over 100 entries, …

The Wilkes University English Department will host the Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series with second guest artist Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 25, in the Sordoni Art Gallery, 141 S. Main Street, Wilkes-Barre.  Adjei-Brenyah, an internationally-renowned fiction author, was raised in Spring Valley, New York, …

Paleoecologist and biological anthropologist, Daniel R. Green, will present this year’s Grace Kimball Memorial Lecture, “Chemical Paleontology: Paleoclimate and Evolution from the East African Rift System,” at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 18, in Stark Learning Center 105. The lecture is free and open to the public. Global cooling over …

Sidhu Shares the Importance of Purpose & Resiliency in Leadership with the College of Business & Engineering Students On a recent visit to campus, Jay S. Sidhu MBA ‘73 passionately peered into the crowd of eager undergraduates, challenging them with a question, “What is one thing you would like to …

The Wilkes University English Department will open the Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series with guest artist Brionne Janae at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 25, in the Kirby Hall Salon, 202 South River Street, Wilkes-Barre. Janae will perform a reading of their poems, followed by a question-and-answer session. The …