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Wilkes University has been awarded a $21,795 “It’s On Us” grant from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The grant, which is part of a broader $1.7 million investment to colleges and universities across the state, will be used to raise awareness about sexual and intimate-partner violence. Wilkes was the only school …

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 …

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, …

Script Your Future is a national campaign designed to educate consumers about the need to take medication as prescribed. Steph Nowak, a P3 pharmacy student from Exeter, Pennsylvania, is one member of the Nesbitt School of Pharmacy team hosting community engagement events to help people “Stick to the Script.” Why …

Wilkes University recently received $500,000 to enhance its Clinical Nursing Simulation Center. The federal funds represent a portion of more than $1 million earmarked for northeastern Pennsylvania in the 2026 budget as announced by Senator John Fetterman’s office.  While the money, along with $750,000 in Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP) …

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 …

Script Your Future is a national consumer education campaign designed to raise awareness about the importance of medication adherence.  Nori Zaccheo, a P3 pharmacy student from Scranton, Pennsylvania, is one member of the Nesbitt School of Pharmacy team who is out in the community encouraging people to “Stick to the …

Wilkes Professor & Students Publish Research on How E. coli Precipitates Calcium Carbonate and Its Positive Implications on Environment E. coli gets a bad rap. Associated more often in the public consciousness with illness and food recalls than with anything beneficial, E. coli (Escherichia coli) is actually much more complicated …