Research and Scholarship

It’s Monday and Ruth Hughes, associate dean and professor in the Sidhu School of Business and Leadership, and Marleen Troy, professor and chair of environmental engineering and earth sciences, are meeting with their student researchers Juliann Duignam and Dylan O’Connor. The students give updates about what they’ve accomplished. The professors…

Parents of high school juniors and seniors might feel daunted when called on to play career counselor to their offspring. Thomas J. Thomas, dean of University College at Wilkes University, has advice for guiding offspring through the process of choosing a college major and, potentially, their life’s work.  Thomas has…

Wilkes University has announced faculty who have earned promotion and been awarded tenure.  The faculty member receiving promotion is: Donald Mencer was promoted to professor of chemistry. Mencer joined Wilkes University in 2001 and was tenured in 2005.  During his time at the University, Mencer has served as chair and co-chair of the Chemistry and…

Emily Russavage, a 2020 graduate of Wilkes University, has received a prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Russavage, of Dunmore, Pa., earned a bachelor of science degree in biology. The fellowship, which is awarded to early-career scientists, includes a three-year annual stipend of $34,000 and an annual $12,000 allowance…

In honor of National Engineers Week, Feb. 16-22, News@Wilkes visited a mechanical engineering class.  Things were popping on a Tuesday morning in mechanical engineering professor Edward Bednarz’ Advanced Machine Design Class.  Entering Room 102 in Cohen Science Center, the air was fragrant with the by-product of one student team’s successful…

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…

Zbigniew J. Witczak, Ph.D., professor in the pharmaceutical sciences department in Wilkes University’s Nesbitt School of Pharmacy, has been selected to join the editorial board of the international journal Antibiotics. The open-access, peer-reviewed journal examins aspects of antibiotics and is published monthly by MDPI. Based in Basel, Switzerland, MDPI’s mission is to…

What’s it like working in a psychology research lab? News@Wilkes shadowed associate professors of psychology Ellen Newell and Jennifer Thomas and their team of students for the “In the Lab” feature. On the third floor of Breiseth Hall, student researchers gather in the psychology research center, each assigned a task.…

Wilkes University’s Sid Halsor, a professor of geology at Wilkes University with expertise in rock-forming processes beneath active volcanoes, offers insights about the eruption of New Zealand’s White Island volcano and why predicting its eruption is challenging. New Zealand Volcanic Eruption is a Grim Lesson By Sid Halsor, Ph.D. The…

The first doctor of education student participating in Wilkes University’s low-residency program in Dubai has successfully defended his research. Dr. Martin Thomas examined the relationship between teacher use of mobile apps for home-school communication and parent motivations for involvement in their child’s schooling. The study included data from 10 different international schools…