In the Lab

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…

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.…

What’s it like working in a biology research lab? News@Wilkes shadowed Linda Gutierrez, associate professor of biology, and her team of students for a new feature called “In the Lab.” Inside room 324 of the Cohen Science Center, Associate Professor of Biology Linda Gutierrez and her team of student researchers…

What’s it like working in a pharmaceutical science research lab? News@Wilkes shadowed Ajay Bommareddy, associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences, and his team of students for a new feature called “In the Lab.” Inside the pharmaceutical sciences suite, Ajay Bommareddy debriefs his team of student researchers about the progress they’ve made…

The Wilkes University Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences Department received a software donation from Petroleum Experts, Inc. (PETEX). The donation includes 10 educational user licenses of its MOVE suite, which PETEX values at $2.18 million. With the software donation, students will get first-hand experience in analyzing and modeling three dimensional…