Three Wilkes University students are spending part of the summer at the Toolik Lake Field Station, 170 miles north of the Arctic Circle, researching the effects of climate change on plants. The students – seniors Stephen Turner of Plains, Pa., Darrel Dech of Allentown, Pa., and Steve Forney, from Easthampton Township, …
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Wilkes University Scientist Leads Research Team Awarded $1 Million National Science Foundation Grant
by Web ServicesTeam Will Study Effect Of Climate Change On Plant Life Ned Fetcher, scientist and coordinator of the Institute for Environmental Science and Sustainability at Wilkes University, is the principal investigator on a research team that has been awarded a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study the …
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Abas Sabouni, Wilkes University assistant professor of electrical engineering, has been researching methods to detect early stages of breast cancer since 2006. Reporter Charlotte Jacobson highlighted his work in this story in the Nov. 2, 2014 Wilkes-Barre Citizens’ Voice. http://citizensvoice.com/news/ professor-making-strides-in- early-cancer-detection-1. 1781471