Student Life

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 …

Wilkes University is pleased to announce that the Office of Academic Success’s Peer Tutor program has been awarded certification as a Level 1 certified tutor training program by the internationally recognized College Reading and Learning Association (CRLA). For more than 30 years, CRLA has been a leader in learning assistance, …

Who do you get when you combine a martial arts expert with an ambitious computer science major? You get Nate Martes, a junior honors student who is also minoring in cloud computing. Born in the Bronx, Martes now lives in Wilkes-Barre. He chose Wilkes not only because it is local …

Fanta Ballo often says that growing up in Harlem raised both the artist, and the activist, in her. As a teenager, Ballo found that her voice was routinely silenced or overlooked, and so she turned to writing as a way to reclaim her agency, and help process the world around …

Hiking, whitewater rafting, rock climbing, camping. For Wilkes Adventure Education (WAE), these fun and thrilling experiences are all par for the course. WAE is one of several Student Development programs available at Wilkes, using adventurous, alternative learning approaches to build essential skills such as teamwork, communication, goal setting, problem solving, …

This holiday season, Wilkes University’s Division of Performing Arts is excited to present a variety of concerts showcasing vocal, orchestral, band and jazz performances. Free and open to the public, the performances run from Nov. 23 – Dec. 7, 2025, at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center for the Performing Arts …

Channeling creativity is something that has always come naturally to Rocco Pugliese. A lifelong performer, the senior from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, began his Wilkes journey as a sophomore in the Upward Bound program. His passions eventually led him to study music recording technology at Luzerne County Community College before transferring to …

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.

Assetou Xango started their journey to Wilkes University in Colorado. Angelique Palmer started hers in the desert of New Mexico. While the student and faculty member’s paths had different first steps, each led to the discovery of a home in the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing. Xango, a …