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Greg Cant, Ph.D. will join Wilkes in June 2020. Wilkes University’s Board of Trustees announced today that Greg Cant will be the University’s seventh president. Cant, currently serving as the dean of the Feliciano School of Business at Montclair State University in New Jersey, will join Wilkes effective June 15, …

The Sordoni Art Gallery at Wilkes University ushered in the holiday season with a cookie decorating event. Armed with icing, sprinkles and other tasty decorations, students turned sweater-shaped cookies into works of edible art. And just in case the cookies seemed too pretty to eat, there were extra sugar cookies …

There’s no mistaking Wagiha Taylor’s office in the Sidhu School of Business. It’s the one with the four-foot tall poster featuring Taylor’s elegant, smiling image and highlighted with Arabic writing. The poster – a memento from an international conference where Taylor was a guest speaker — is mounted on the …

What does a digital marketing director do? In News@Wilkes’ latest “Meet” feature, we learn the answer to that question and more as we get to know Mandy Pennington, who joined the University this year as the first person to hold a position 100 percent dedicated to marketing Wilkes on digital …

As part of an on-going series introducing campus departments and the people who work there, News@Wilkes looks at members of the Admissions Department. Meet admissions counselor, Cierra Steele.  What do you do? What I do in my job as an admissions counselor is meet with prospective high school students at high school visits, …

Wilkes University broke out the bells and whistles when it dedicated Bruggeworth Field at the Ralston Athletic Complex. The event took place on Saturday, Oct. 5 during the University’s homecoming weekend. The nearly $8 million project includes a multi-purpose turf field that will be used for men’s and women’s soccer, …

Wilkes University Interim President Paul S. Adams announced on the evening of Sept. 12 the passing of Dr. Francis J. Michelini, who served as the second President of Wilkes College from 1970 to 1975. Click here to view his full obituary. Michelini was the first Wilkes president to ascend from …

Three Wilkes University international students participated in the Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Schools Global Student Conference at Cedar Crest College in Allentown on Feb. 23. The international students created posters and conducted research on global topics. International students were given the opportunity to present their research to an audience …

Gabriel Velez has nothing but love for Wilkes University! How does Wilkes University’s Gabriel Velez ’18 tackle life, playing tennis for Wilkes, being the treasurer of the multi-cultural student coalition and being the treasurer of the nursing class of 2019? Find out in our latest installment of Wilkes in :60!

Integrative media alumna Erin Gallagher ’13 of Kingston, Pa., has been creating visual representations of social media activity since February 2017, and it is turning heads across the country. Her work has been gaining attention and has been featured on the online news site Buzzfeed. It recently earned her an …