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Sean Kelly, professor of English, has been selected to deliver Wilkes University’s 2024 Paul A. O’Hop Final Word Lecture. His presentation, “Reading, Writing, and Wilkes University’s Mission of Liberal Education: Questioning AI’s Value as a Learning Tool,” will take place at 6 p.m. on Monday, April 29, in the Jean and Paul…

Wilkes University will collaborate with King’s College to host the annual 2024 Women’s and Gender Studies Conference on Apr. 8 and 9, on the Wilkes campus. Heather Hewett, associate professor of women’s, gender and sexuality studies and an affiliate of the Department of English at the State University of New…

The Wilkes University English Department will close its 2024 Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series with a reading by guest artist Daniel Torday at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 10, in the Kirby Hall Salon. Torday is the author of three novels: The Last Flight of Poxl West, a New York…

Wilkes University will host the sixth annual Pennsylvania Pain and Addiction Summit from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday, April 26. The theme of the 2024 summit is “Access to Care,” with an emphasis on the holistic treatment of the patient. During this full-day conference, medical, legal and law…

While college students have plenty on their minds, colorectal cancer doesn’t usually make that list. Colorectal cancer, also referred to as colon cancer, is rare for young adults, with doctors recommending screenings beginning at age 45. Still, with colon cancer as the second leading cause of cancer death in Pennsylvania,…

The Wilkes University English Department, as part of its Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series, will host a reading by guest artist Leah Vernon at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 20, in the Kirby Hall Salon.  Vernon, also known as Leah V, is an international plus-size Hijabi model, award-winning author,…

Shahid Naeem, PhD, professor of Ecology at Columbia University, will present this year’s Grace Kimball Memorial Lecture, “Thinking Creatively About the Demise of the Living World: Functional Diversity and Functional Traits in a Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function (BEF) Framework,” at 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 4, in Stark Learning Center,…

This traveling exhibition of stunning bead art from South Africa tells a luminous story of independence, migration and memory. Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and the Art of Independence will open at the Sordoni Art Gallery on March 1, and run through May 10. This spectacular overview of a new form of bead…

Marie Yovanovitch, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine and New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Lessons from the Edge, will deliver the Wilkes University Max Rosenn Lecture in Law and Humanities at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts.…

Gene Chu of Gaithersburg, Maryland, has built a life, a business and an investment portfolio since arriving in the United States from Beijing in 1986. Now he wants to use his stock market success to pay it forward with a $1 million gift, acknowledging the family and the university that…