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The 31st Annual James Jones First Novel Fellowship awarded first place and $10,000 to Beenish Ahmed of Detroit, Michigan, for her novel titled “Every Song an Elegy.” She was selected from 584 entrants in the competition co-sponsored by the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University and…

Wilkes University is once again ranked among top national universities in U.S. News and World Report’s Best Colleges ranking of American colleges and universities. Wilkes is ranked 234 among 440 national universities in the 2023 edition. This is the 19th consecutive year that Wilkes has been ranked and its fourth…

President Greg Cant honored six members of the Wilkes University faculty and staff with the President’s Awards for Excellence during the opening of school Convocation ceremony on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2022. The awards represent the University’s five core values: innovation, scholarship, diversity, mentorship and community. The President’s Award for Excellence…

The Sordoni Art Gallery at Wilkes University launches Second Saturdays Family Hour, a free event that encourages children and adults to engage with exhibitions in new and artistic ways. Occurring on the second Saturday of each month when the gallery is open, families are invited to participate in hands-on activities…

Jake Wood, co-founder and executive chairman of Team Rubicon and CEO of Groundswell, will deliver the Allan P. Kirby Lecture in Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship at Wilkes University on Tuesday, Oct. 11. Wood, a former Marine scout sniper and University of Wisconsin football player, will present Conquering Chaos at 7…

Wilkes University welcomes students to campus for its 90th academic year during Welcome Weekend from Aug. 25 to 28. The weekend of events is a prelude to the start of classes on Monday, Aug. 29. Welcome Weekend Move-in for first-year and transfer students will be held on Thursday, Aug. 25. Students…

Wilkes University student-veteran Dillon Bradley, of Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, has been recognized with a 2022 Student Veteran Leadership Award by G.I. Jobs magazine. One of 33 student veterans receiving the honor across the nation, Bradley, a P2 student in the PharmD program, was featured in the publication’s August issue.  The award recognizes student…

The Sordoni Art Gallery at Wilkes University will present “In Search of Meaning: Memory Becomes Us” by Philadelphia-based artist, author, poet and thought leader Patricia Moss-Vreeland, from Aug. 26 through Oct. 9. The show will feature paintings, prints, artist books, poetry and videos focusing on Moss-Vreeland’s ongoing inquiry about the…

Arun Venkataraman, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Global Markets and Director General of the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service, along with government representatives and leaders in global trade, gathered on the Wilkes University campus for the “Building Bridges to Global Markets” conference. The event provided an opportunity for local officials,…

Wilkes University has announced the following faculty members who have earned promotion and been awarded tenure: Joshua Blechle was promoted to associate professor of chemistry and granted tenure. Blechle joined Wilkes in 2017. He received his bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri, and his PhD in…