Research and Scholarship

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 …

When imagining what it’s like to be a pharmacist, a familiar image often comes to mind: a person in a white coat behind the counter filling prescriptions. The reality is so much more. For high school students who may be considering a future in the pharmacy field, RxExperience at Wilkes …

Wilkes University has been awarded a $27,182 grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) to study how forest management practices influence declining bird species in northeastern Pennsylvania, including prairie warblers and wood thrush. The funding is part of nearly $530,000 announced by the Shapiro Administration to …

Wilkes University has received two grants, totaling more than $1.2 million, from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support innovation and workforce development within the region.  “This is a tremendous achievement for our faculty as well as the greater community,” said President Greg Cant, noting the competitive nature of NSF …

For assistant biology professor Yuzo Yanagitsuru, it all boils down to something quite simple: “I like fish.” It may sound straightforward, but anyone who knows him would understand that Yanagitsuru’s journey to Wilkes, and the research he oversees here, has been the culmination of a lifelong passion.

This past June, four undergraduate students in the sociology / criminology program at Wilkes attended the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association (ASA) and the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) in Chicago. Accompanied by professors Andrew Wilczak and Kaitlyn Langendoerfer, students Alyssa Donnini, Lindsey Kausmeyer, Courtney …

Abas Sabouni, professor and chair of the Department of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, has been selected to deliver Wilkes University’s 2025 Paul A. O’Hop Final Word Lecture in the Jean and Paul Adams Commons on the second floor of the Henry Student Center at 6 p.m. on Monday, April 7. His presentation, …

Though marketing and engineering students seemingly come from two different worlds, they have a lot in common when it comes to envisioning their next start-up. Through a unique learning collaboration in BEGR 411, students in the College of Business and Engineering (COBE) experienced the power of  blending their majors and …