College offers students an opportunity to expand their horizons. Derek Donaldson, a pharmacy and Spanish double major, goes the extra mile, taking advantage of study abroad opportunities in Peru and Spain, and collaborating with a professor to craft a chapter of a Spanish-language textbook for medical professionals. As a student …
Student Spotlight
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Wilkes University recently named Trystan Griffith, Fairfield, Pa., as the recipient of the Outstanding Adult Learner of the Year Award for 2022. Griffith graduated on Saturday, May 21 with a Bachelor of Arts in history and with minors in sociology and women’s and gender studies. Griffith transferred to Wilkes from …
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Alyssa Roberts loves to put artistic talent on display, whether it’s someone else’s work or her own. As the student design fellow for the Sordoni Art Gallery, the senior digital design and media art major mentors five other students on the gallery’s design team and assigns project tasks to bring …
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Most college students create an online presence, but Tatiana Mancera of Miami, Florida, shows next-level social media savvy as a Kirby Scholar and intern for the Wilkes women’s soccer team. Kirby Scholars are members of a highly selective internship program based in the Allan P. Kirby Center for Free Enterprise …
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Esther Orlando ’24 is a biology major who is also following the pre-medical track at Wilkes.
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Business Management Student Will Have the Sweetest Summer Ever with Hershey Internship
by Web ServicesSometimes homework assignments can lead to really sweet opportunities. Just ask Jesus Rios, junior Business Management student at the Sidhu School of Business and Leadership. “My professor, Karen Alessi, required our whole personal and professional development class to attend last year’s virtual Career and Internship Fair,” said Rios, ”and that’s …
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Morgan Rich ’24 scored her dream internship at Disney through the Disney College Program.
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Nick Kinzler is quick on his feet – in both soccer and business competitions. As a goalkeeper for the Wilkes Colonels, the junior corporate finance major from Jackson, New Jersey, must stop the opposition from scoring. Competing in front of judges at Phi Beta Lambda conferences, his goal is to …
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Meet the Snake Robot Designed by Wilkes Students That Might Change How We Study River Flow
by Web ServicesMeet Ormr the snake robot – the ingenious brainchild of two junior mechanical engineering students who were tasked with solving a dilemma in the spring of 2020: is it possible to follow water flow through fractures in a mine pool?
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For a college student, time in the library isn’t unusual. But an undergraduate student processing documents and artifacts from World War I? That’s a whole other story. As a history major and an intern for the Wilkes University Archives, senior Logan Yeakel took advantage of a unique opportunity to bring …