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Wilkes University recognized 16 faculty and staff members with nine awards for excellence in teaching and advising at the 2018 Teacher Recognition and Effectiveness Committee (TREC) Awards Ceremony. The recipients of this year’s awards are: Edward Foote, professor of pharmacy practice and department chair, received the Carpenter Award for Teaching. …

Wilkes University launched more than $3.3 million in campus enhancements during a groundbreaking ceremony on Monday, May 21. The projects, primarily focused on the Fenner Quadrangle and the area around the Henry Student Center, will transform Wilkes into a park-like campus in the heart of the City of Wilkes-Barre. The …

The nearly 800 degrees awarded on Saturday brings Wilkes University’s 2017-18 total degree conferral to 1,585. Only five other private universities in Pennsylvania with Wilkes’ program mix can boast this figure. Wilkes University awarded 781 bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees at its 71st spring commencement ceremonies on May 19. The …

Ceremony Moves to New Location in McHale Athletic Center of University Center on Main Wilkes University is expected to award nearly 800 bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees at its 71st spring commencement ceremonies on May 19. The ceremony for graduate students receiving doctoral and master’s degrees will be held at 10 …

Wilkes senior Michelle Lehman is graduating with more than a diploma. The marketing major in the Jay S. Sidhu School of Business and Leadership has earned $10,000 and $100,000 in in-kind services as the winner of the collegiate division in the annual TecBRIDGE annual business plan competition. Lehman was announced …

Wilkes University pharmacy student, Dylan Fox, was named a top ten finalist for the 2018 National Patient Counseling Competition. He was recognized at the American Pharmacists Association Annual Meeting held March 16 to 19 in Nashville, Tenn. Fox, who is only a second-year pharmacy student in the four-year program, was …

The match rate in the Nesbitt School of Pharmacysurpasses the national average   Wilkes University’s Nesbitt School of Pharmacy continues to match pharmacy students seeking residency training at a rate above the national average. Eighty-one percent of students and alumni from Wilkes University’s Nesbitt School of Pharmacy were successfully matched …

The chairman of Benco Dental will be awarded the President’s Medal at the University’s annual event Wilkes University will celebrate its legacy of educating first-generation college students at the 2018 Founders Gala on Saturday, June 2. The gala, now in its fifth year, will be held at 6 p.m. at the …

Two Wilkes University juniors are translating their classroom experience into a production credit with audio book giant Audible. Nicholas Filipek of West Wyoming, Pa., and Luke Modrovsky of Mountain Top, Pa., will be working with Etruscan Press author Aaron Poochigian as he produces his debut novel-in-verse, Mr. Either/Or. Poochigian will be …

The former Rookie of the Year is the featured speaker on Friday, April 20 at Mohegan Sun Leaders at the forefront of battling the opioid crisis will present at Wilkes University’s Pennsylvania Pain and Addiction Summit on Friday, April 20 at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs. New York Mets All-Star …