Student Life

Wilkes University inducted five students as full members into the Theta Delta Chapter of the Beta Beta Beta national biological honor society at an induction ceremony held during the fall semester. Full members are juniors or seniors who have completed at least 16 credits in biology with at least a …

Wilkes University senior Samantha Trobe is spending spring break face-to-face with tigers and wildcats. If you’re thinking African safari – think again.  Trobe is leading a team of fellow students who are spending their week-long spring break at the North Carolina Tiger rescue, a non-profit organization that saves and protects …

Two Wilkes University students have been awarded Bierly Fellowships to fund internship experiences in 2020. The Bierly Fellowship funds a credit or non-credit cooperative education or internship experience, an international or domestic study-away experience or off-campus undergraduate research.  Fellows are chosen in the fall and spring of each year from …

A new group of students arrived from the Republic of Panama in January. Sponsored by the Panamanian education agency, Institute for Training and Development of Human Resources (IFARHU), this program allows high-achieving undergraduate students to travel from Panama to study at Wilkes. The students first participate in Wilkes’ nationally accredited …

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 …

Senior entrepreneurship major Cody Geidel was in a pickle when he had to come up with a business idea for one of his classes. Luckily, pickles were just what he needed to turn his college assignment into a full-fledged business.  “[Geidel’s Pickles] started as a simple project in one of …

Wilkes University Theatre presents the award-winning musical, “The Spitfire Grill.” Performances will take place on Feb 20, 21, and 22 at 8 p.m., and on Feb. 22 and 23 at 2 p.m. All performances are at the Dorothy Dickson Darte Center, 239 S River St, Wilkes-Barre. General admission is $15, …

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. …

When she was shopping for colleges, Jess Morandi found herself at a Wilkes University admissions table by chance while attending a college fair with a friend. Morandi, who was interested in studying graphic design, was sold on the University when she learned about the digital design and media arts major.  …

January is Mentoring Month and this News@Wilkes story highlights the strong mentoring culture and the many mentoring relationships on campus. When McKaylah McKay, a digital design and media arts major, needs encouragement on a creative project, she knows she can count on assistant professor Lisa Reynolds. “She always gives you …