News Releases

Students from the Nesbitt School of Pharmacy scored a big win, earning the Media/Communication Award for the 2025 Script Your Future Team Challenge.  Script Your Future, founded in 2011, is a national consumer education campaign that helps to raise awareness about the importance of medication adherence as a vital first …

In a world overcome by environmental collapse, corporate greed and unchecked bureaucracy, will anyone stand up to the powers-that-be and fight for the privilege to pee? That’s the question at the center of Urinetown, the satirical musical that will storm the stage at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the …

Wilkes University announced today that it has joined the Google AI for Education Accelerator program to offer career-focused resources for students. The program, a national initiative to support AI skill building, includes access to valuable training resources and tools that can be used for research, classroom projects, professional development and …

The Wilkes University English Department will proudly host its annual Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series. The series features writers and scholars from across all genres and backgrounds, as they come to campus to present readings from their works and participate in question-and-answer sessions with the audience. The series opens …

Helen Zughaib visited the Sordoni Art Gallery in late October to introduce her Migrations exhibit to campus and the community. Now the artist will return for a special micro-residency featuring a panel discussion, cocktail reception and last look at the exhibit from Thursday, Feb. 26, to Saturday, Feb. 28. “I …

Amor Towles, bestselling author, will deliver the annual Wilkes University Max Rosenn Lecture in Law and Humanities at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 15, 2026, at the newly-renovated Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts, 239 South River St., Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Towles’s award-winning novels have collectively sold more than …

Wilkes University will celebrate Black History Month with a variety of lectures and events.  Pan-African Flag Raising and Coffee Hour Tuesday, Feb. 3 from 11:00 a.m. to noon outside the E.S. Farley Library Join the Office of Diversity Initiatives, E.S. Farley Library, and Black Student Union for a Pan African …

Who do you get when you combine a martial arts expert with an ambitious computer science major? You get Nate Martes, a junior honors student who is also minoring in cloud computing. Born in the Bronx, Martes now lives in Wilkes-Barre. He chose Wilkes not only because it is local …

Wilkes University’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, sponsored by the Office of Diversity Initiatives and the Multicultural Student Coalition, featured speakers, music and a buffet lunch from Caribbean Paradise. The event honored the late civil rights icon by inspiring the audience to focus on the theme “Imani in Everyday …

Wilkes University has been awarded a $27,182 grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) to study how forest management practices influence declining bird species in northeastern Pennsylvania, including prairie warblers and wood thrush. The funding is part of nearly $530,000 announced by the Shapiro Administration to …