Events

The gala on June 1 will also honor Robert A. Mugford ’58 and Tara Mugford Wilson as the inaugural recipients of the Chairman’s Award. Wilkes University will celebrate its legacy of educating first-generation college students at the 2023 Founders Gala on Thursday, June 1. Now in its ninth year, the …

Wilkes University hosted a flag raising ceremony honoring the International Transgender Day of Visibility on Friday, March 31. The event, organized by the student-led Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA), featured remarks from Greg Cant, president of Wilkes University, and Helen H. Davis, associate professor of English and GSA advisor, as …

Charlotte Hoffman Moser, MS, co-director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, will present this year’s Grace Kimball Memorial Lecture, “Science Communication:  It’s Not Just About the Facts,” at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 12, in the Henry Student Center Ballroom. The lecture is free and open …

The Wilkes University English Department will conclude the 2023 Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series with a reading by Amy E. Earhart at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 12, in the Kirby Hall Salon. Earhart is an associate professor of English and affiliated faculty of Africana Studies at Texas A&M …

The Wilkes University English Department and the Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series will host a reading by Ann E. Wallace at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 15, in the Karambelas Media and Communication Center, Room 135.  Ann E. Wallace, PhD, is Poet Laureate of Jersey City, New Jersey. A …

Luzerne County Head Start, Inc. and Wilkes University welcomed best-selling author, Ellen Galinsky, to the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts at Wilkes University on March 3, 2023. Galinsky presented “Learning and Thriving: Questions and Lessons Learned” to early childhood education staff at Head Start and aspiring educators …

Many students, faculty and staff came out on Tuesday, February 14 to participate in the fourth annual Douglass Day Transcribe-a-thon, an event held on the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass. The event, sponsored by the Wilkes University Division of Global Cultures, the Office of Diversity Affairs and the Sordoni Art …

Wilkes University Theatre invites audience members to fall in love with Sweet Charity at 8 p.m. on Feb. 23, 24 and 25, and 2 p.m. on Feb. 25 and 26, at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts, 239 S. River St., Wilkes-Barre. Sweet Charity, with a book …

Wilkes students, faculty and staff gathered to honor the life of Tyre Nichols and bring awareness to his violent death.  The event was hosted by the Multicultural Student Coalition at the Fenner Quadrangle near the center of campus. Kathrine Ermeus, president of the Multicultural Student Coalition, opened the program. Ermeus …

The Wilkes University English Department will open the Allan Hamilton Dickson Fund Spring Writers Series with a reading by Zakes Mda at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 15, in the Kirby Hall Salon.  Mda is a South African and American-African Appalachian writer, painter and music composer. He has published 24 …