Events

The Wilkes University English Department will close its 2025 Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series with a reading by guest artist George Saunders at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 15, in the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts, 239 South River Street, Wilkes-Barre.   Saunders is the author of …

Wilkes University Theatre will present William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, a comedic play full of wit and romance, at 8 p.m. on April 10, 11 & 12, and at 2 p.m. on April 12 & 13 in the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts, 239 S. River …

The University will present the President’s Award and the Chairperson’s Award at the annual celebration. Wilkes University will celebrate its legacy of educating first-generation college students at the 2025 Founders Gala at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 8, at the Westmoreland Club, 59 South Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre. This year’s event …

Abas Sabouni, professor and chair of the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, has been selected to deliver Wilkes University’s 2025 Paul A. O’Hop Final Word Lecture in the Jean and Paul Adams Commons on the second floor of the Henry Student Center at 6 p.m. on Monday, April 7. His presentation, …

Students from the Nesbitt School of Pharmacy at Wilkes University are serving the community through the Script Your Future Medication Adherence Team Challenge. Their goal: To raise awareness about the importance of taking medications according to directions.  Kelly Sklanka, assistant professor of pharmacy practice, offered several reasons behind a lack …

Nicholas Kristof, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author visited campus for the 43rd annual Max Rosenn Lecture in Law and Humanities on Sunday, March 16. The Rosenn Lecture was established in 1980 in honor of Judge Max Rosenn’s extraordinary life of law and public service. Over four decades, the …

Henderson “Jim” Cleaves, professor and chair of the chemistry department at Howard University in Washington, D.C., will deliver the 2025 Henry J. and Linda C. Pownall Lecture in Chemistry at Wilkes University at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 9, in Stark Learning Center 105. The lecture, “Understanding the Chemical Origins …

Hazel Barton, Loper Professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Alabama, will present this year’s Grace Kimball Memorial Lecture, “Cave Microbiology: It’s Wild Down There,” at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 2, in Stark Learning Center 105. The lecture is free and open to the public.  Caves, by their …

Dearest reader, you are invited to the most romantic literary birthday party of the last 250 years. Please join the Wilkes University English Department from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 27, in Weckesser Hall for a ball in honor of novelist Jane Austen. Austen published four novels during …

Wilkes University will collaborate with King’s College to host the annual 2025 Women’s and Gender Studies Conference on April 14 and 15, on the King’s College campus. The theme of this year’s conference is “The Evolution of Family Roles and Balancing Work and Family Dynamics.” Abby Palko, the inaugural director …