News Releases

Wilkes University has canceled the April 19 Max Rosenn Lecture in Law and Humanities with National Public Radio’s Terry Gross. The event is rescheduled for April 25, 2021 at 2:30 pm in the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts. Details about registering for the 2021 event will be …

Wilkes University is actively monitoring COVID-19 and its spread. A committee of campus members representing health services, student life, academic affairs and emergency management are meeting regularly to discuss the latest developments and the University’s ongoing response.  At this time, there are no confirmed cases of COVID-19 at Wilkes University. …

Wilkes University inducted five students as full members into the Theta Delta Chapter of the Beta Beta Beta national biological honor society at an induction ceremony held during the fall semester. Full members are juniors or seniors who have completed at least 16 credits in biology with at least a …

More than 600 high school students from 49 northeast Pennsylvania high schools will compete when Wilkes University hosts the Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science regional competition on Saturday, February 29. The event will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the University campus.  The students are competing in …

Two Wilkes University students have been awarded Bierly Fellowships to fund internship experiences in 2020. The Bierly Fellowship funds a credit or non-credit cooperative education or internship experience, an international or domestic study-away experience or off-campus undergraduate research.  Fellows are chosen in the fall and spring of each year from …

Wilkes University’s U.N. Lecture series will host Ambassador Susan M. Elliott, president and CEO of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy.  She will discuss the topic “What Do Ambassadors Do?” The lecture will take place March 19 at 4 p.m. in the Miller Room on the second floor of the Henry …

Acclaimed writer and translator Poupeh Missaghi will visit Wilkes University as part of the Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series. Missaghi will read an excerpt of her debut novel, “trans(re)lating house one,” published by Coffee House Press in February 2020. The event, hosted by the Wilkes English Department, will take …

Wei Du, assistant professor of electrical engineering at Wilkes University, has contributed a chapter to the book “Mid-Infrared Optoelectronics: Materials, Devices and Applications.” The book was published in November 2019 by Elsevier Science and Technology. Du’s chapter is “Group IV photonics using (Si) GeSn technology toward mid-IR applications.” It was …

Members of the  Wilkes University community will take an active role in preserving black history when they participate in a nationwide transcribe-a-thon on Tuesday, Feb. 18 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event, which honors both Frederick Douglass Day and Black History Month, will take place in Breiseth Hall, room …

Wilkes University will celebrate its legacy of educating first-generation college students at the 2020 Founders Gala on Saturday, June 6. Now in its seventh year, the gala will be held at 6 p.m. at the Westmoreland Club, 59 S. Franklin St. in Wilkes-Barre. Proceeds from the event support the First …